Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Willow in the Red Zone, Christchurch, New Zealand.jpg

File:Willow in the Red Zone, Christchurch, New Zealand.jpg, featured edit

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Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural/New Zealand
Info All by me. It's a Weeping Golden Willow in the Red Zone by River Avon, Christchurch, New Zealand. The picture was taken right before the sunset, about a minute later the sun was below the horizon - hence the red colour. It's just working for me - I like it so I nominated it :) --Podzemnik (talk) 07:31, 15 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Podzemnik (talk) 07:31, 15 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice angle, at first I thought the photo needed rotation but seeing the species of the tree, I got it (I think...). :-) Did you camp under the tree? --Cart (talk) 10:20, 15 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
SupportVery nice, but please rotate 90 degrees CCW. --XRay ^talk 15:32, 15 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't. If rotated, I think it will just look like any other tree distorted by some special lens or "fixed" in post-processing. Having it this way makes you think twice about the angle IMO. --Cart (talk) 16:58, 15 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Strong support This one really made me go 'wow' as soon as I saw it. Cmao20 (talk) 15:43, 15 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support --The Cosmonaut (talk) 15:58, 15 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Interesting, but how about a CCW 90° rotation? I would feel like I'm facing the tree and then look up. - Benh (talk) 20:23, 15 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Stunning, but do not rotate to normal view. Seven Pandas (talk) 20:42, 15 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral Why should I have to keep my head to the side to see the picture correctly? It could easily be rotated 90 °. For me it is no FI. -- Lothar Spurzem (talk) 20:47, 15 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If you lie on your back under a tree and look up at the branches and the sky, there is no other direction than up. A weeping willow will spread its branches down around you, at least that is how I perceive this. Here is a similar view with other trees. --Cart (talk) 21:47, 15 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support btw please keep the landscape orientation. something so reliant on mood and evocation needs the human eye's more horizontal perspective — Rhododendrites ^talk | 21:34, 15 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I will. I understand that some folks migh find it ankward though. I was laying under the willow, thinking about life when I got the idea to take a shot of what I was actually looking at. I tried to rotate it but it just looks weird to me. It evocates a real tree from a classic angle - these are thick branches under about 45 degrees angle plus tiny branches that go all the way down. So this rotation makes sense to me. Thanks for the support. --Podzemnik (talk) 23:05, 15 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support --Booth sift 04:28, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support awesome the way it is --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 05:39, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Feels like lying under the tree and looking up. :) --Peulle (talk) 09:15, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah that's what I was heading for. I like lying under the trees! --Podzemnik (talk) 09:22, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support Creative -- Basile Morin (talk) 08:42, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Dinkum (talk) 18:57, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Something different Poc o² 20:00, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support I like the way this subverts the usual dreaminess one would expect from looking up at willows by doing it in winter, when its branches are bare. Daniel Case (talk) 04:06, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 14 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /--Cart (talk) 15:46, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Natural/New Zealand