Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:View from bridge to NATO tower toward Perennial Garden NBG LR.jpg
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- Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural/United_States
- All by me. View from bridge to NATO tower toward the Perennial Garden at Norfolk Botanical Garden. Where you see the paved path is the northern tip of the Perennial Garden.PumpkinSky talk 12:16, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
Support -- PumpkinSky talk 12:16, 3 September 2017 (UTC)- Support Beautiful and well kept garden. -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 12:49, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
- Support -- nicely done, I like the lines created by the water in the foreground and the path in the background, framed by the foliage. Solid composition. Montanabw (talk) 21:04, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
Oppose - Sure, a pretty garden, but I regret that this slice of it doesn't add up to me as a composition. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:46, 4 September 2017 (UTC)- Oppose The gardens are nice, but this is just a QI. I'm sure we have thousands of nice photos of lovely formal gardens. -- Colin (talk) 11:53, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
- Oppose --per Colin--Ermell (talk) 07:26, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
- Oppose Yes there are a lot of nice photos of fine gardens, but that alone is not an argument for dismissing another photo of such a place. This place has potential but this photo is not it. This is a scene where you have to work with the different textures in the photo: water, lawn, flowers, trees, just like you would an abstract photo. Framing this so you get some cool diagonal angles would have been better. For example, the tree to the left is totally redundant, it only hinders the viewer to enter the photo and the flowers to the right are cut too short at the bottom, some more water wouldn't hurt. --cart-Talk 08:42, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
Comment @W.carter: The left/right angle could be narrowed but just below the bottom are plants that grow up from the bridge rail and to get the main scene in focus the plants are way out of focus. The bridge is only a few feet wide so I couldn't go backwards any farther. I could try again with different f/stops but I didn't like the way the bridge plants got in the way. PumpkinSky talk 09:47, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
- There are probably many other ways to photograph this park. My comments above were just a few pointers to my oppose. Don't get hung up on this particular scene. --cart-Talk 09:58, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
I withdraw my nomination PumpkinSky talk 11:19, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
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