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Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Plants#Order_:_Gentianales
Info: all by -- The Cosmonaut (talk) 06:18, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- The Cosmonaut (talk) 06:18, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:51, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Sorry, this is definitely QI but I'm not sure it's sharp enough for FP in the competitive genre of flower photos. I'd need a sharper image to support what is, for me, a flower that doesn't have that much visual wow. Cmao20 (talk) 23:17, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm quite puzzled by the often expressed notion that due to the overabundance of flower photos being nominated, more stringent standards need to apply. Right now, this is the only active flower nomination. I've been a fairly regular visitor over the last 6 months, and this situation is quite representative. Compared to the amount of landscape and architecture photos that gets nominated, we are hardly overwhelmed by flowers, and yet the myth that we are continues to perpetuate, for some reason... --The Cosmonaut (talk) 01:01, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You may be right. I think the problem is that it's easy to take a pretty picture of a flower because, well, flowers are pretty, but for an FP I'd want something exceptional either in composition, subject (unusual or especially beautiful flower) or resolution. Cmao20 (talk) 10:08, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, but who decided that taking a flower photo is easy? This might be the case for extremely common plants like dandelions or house plants, when a photographer has a total control of the environment. Doing any sort of macro photography outside the studio setting is not a trivial task. First of all, there is a question of access. Most of us live in the urban areas of the Northern Hemisphere, so we're not exactly spoiled with an abundance of rare and exotic plants. I've had to literally crawl on the ground and bushwhack, while being attacked by clouds of various bloodsuckers to get some photos. This one is from a greenhouse, so nothing too extreme, but even so, the awkward angle of the flower and the movement of air provided enough of a challenge. Overall, I would say that to produce a decent flower photo has on average required more effort from me compared to my landscape and architecture photos. My point it, we should assess the candidates on their explicit merits alone without arbitrarily applying stricter criteria based on the preconceived notions of whether the shot was easy to take or not. --The Cosmonaut (talk) 17:31, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 04:48, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose It is a good photo but IMHO not outstanding.The composition does not work for me. Sorry. --Dinkum (talk) 10:42, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Cmao and Dinkum. Daniel Case (talk) 02:59, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I withdraw my nomination --The Cosmonaut (talk) 21:36, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]