Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Rain over Holma marina.jpg

File:Rain over Holma marina.jpg, featured edit

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Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena#Rain
Info Some of you have said you want me around for my ~~crazy~~'unusual' noms, so here goes. How else are you going to illustrate the leaden light and soft calm that come with such a rain. It deprives the scene of color, leaving only the most colorful items like a natural selective desaturation. -- Cart (talk) 10:16, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Cart (talk) 10:16, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bleak and depressing, but that's the point. Excellent composition. Cmao20 (talk) 13:57, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Different, yes, but not wowing me. Rules are made to be broken of course, but here I just don't see anything that justifies including the sky on an overcast day with no interesting clouds. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 20:11, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This is not just overcast, it's pouring, and you rarely see cloud formations when you are in the middle of a downpour. If you look at the photo at full size you can see the streaks of rain all over the photo. For the sake of my camera, I had to take the photo from inside my car since I don't have a waterproof house for it. Anyway, I wasn't going for fluffy dramatic clouds, I was trying to capture the steel-gray limbo of this kind of day. --Cart (talk) 20:45, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support Per Cmao20. --Podzemnik (talk) 20:19, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per King of Hearts.--Ermell (talk) 20:56, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- agree Cmao Seven Pandas (talk) 21:31, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support.--Vulp here 18:16, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Booth sift 01:22, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Moral support: Thanks for daring to be different. Few people would even think about getting their camera out under conditions like this. These people will never experience how *beep*ing difficult it is to photograph rain. I mean, if you look closely, you can (with some experience) tell that it is indeed pouring heavily in this scene, but you might be forgiven for thinking it's just a bit foggy. I guess what would help getting the message across here would be some kind of additional visual cue. Like a person in rain gear or with an umbrella fighting the weather … --El Grafo (talk) 14:30, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for those kind words, El Grafo. I agree that a token person would have been nice, but most people here are wise enough to stay indoors in this kind of weather. :-) To paraphrase an old song: "Mad dogs and Commons photographers go out in the evening rain". --Cart (talk) 15:20, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Certainly good quality, but not FP for me. --Yann (talk) 17:48, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support - I've thought about this for a long time, and I've come to the conclusion that it's legitimately an FP. It's a good composition in pouring rain, and if Monet thought it was worth making paintings of "effet neige", this is a photo with "effet pluie". Not that this is like Monet, but I think it is good enough. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:34, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Tnx! I've got plenty of "effet neige" too. :-D I've always wondered why only clear weather (or with the occasional fog) is deemed worthy of photos. --Cart (talk) 08:36, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I remember we featured a great photo by you of a railway crossing and line in frozen fog. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:19, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, another one by me. I would love to see more "weater photos" from the rest of the world. Although it is understandable that there are so few, since the rest of the regulars here have much more expensive cameras than me and they have to be more careful. --Cart (talk) 09:45, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support A summer day can also be a dreary, rainy one, especially when, like the one in this image, it evokes Led Zeppelin's "Rain Song". Daniel Case (talk) 17:56, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per others -- Karelj (talk) 18:20, 6 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 8 support, 4 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /--A.Savin 13:18, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Natural phenomena