Support The composition sets this above many other flower featured pictures. Perfect exposure: not to dark and the highlights are not blown. -- Ram-Man17:34, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
OpposeThe quality is great, but I do not feel that killing a wild flower is a right thing to do for creating the composition that "sets this above many other flower featured pictures."(I hope it was not done in a protected area). Besides I really see no value in the image. --Mbz118:24, 12 July 2007 (UTC)Mbz1[reply]
This is an extremely common flower, often considered an invasive species and grown in many private gardens. I really doubt it was a wild flower anyway. It was taken in the United States where it is an introduced, non-native species. They are very common cut flowers for use in flower arrangements. -- Ram-Man19:04, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for explaining it to me, Ram-Man. Still my second point is valid - the flower is too comon for the picture to hav a value.--Mbz119:49, 12 July 2007 (UTC)Mbz1[reply]
We sure do. It is actually very easy for me. First we should remember that we are at Wikipedia the free encyclopedia and not at a professional photo forum. For example that Golden Gate Bridge picture that I nominated could have some value but not because of the bridge, but because of the kind of interesting fog. Sure the Bridge is beautiful, but there so many pictures of the Bridge. I as a reader go to Wikipedia to learn and I as a reader could not care less, if for example few icebergs are out of focus, because it is unique and interesting picture taken in a very, very remote area. I as a reader probably will not even notice that things. Look how many beautiful high quality insects and flowers pictures are featured. There's no single aerial iceberg picture is featured and probably will not any time soon. It is great, when the value and the quality come together, but, if for some reason it cannot be achieved yet, for me as a reader the value is everything that matters. Besides, if a better picture on the subject will became available later, the other one could get delisted. I'd like to finish at the funny note: somebody told me once that even, if I took a picture of an alien in an alien ship, but the picture came out blurry, he would have voted against it. Oh, well.--Mbz121:35, 12 July 2007 (UTC)Mbz1[reply]
Oppose i agree quality is good but i am not satisfied with the composition. The flower is right in the center of the photo. This makes pictures boring. If you would have left more free space on the right it might have been a great photo. --AngMoKio18:31, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Great picture: great colours and composition. Mbz1, this is not Wikipedia. I'm emphasising this, because it's something you've been told before. Anrie12:42, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Simonizer, Anrie, so what it is Wikimedia? Does it mean that Value of the picture does not matter? Please, go to the beginning of this very page and read:Value - our main goal is to feature most valuable pictures from all others. Pictures should be in some way special, so please be aware that: almost all sunsets are pretty, and most such pictures are not essence different from others, nightshots are pretty but normally more details can be shown on pictures taken at daytime, BEATIFUL DOES NOT ALWAYS MEAN VALUABLE.. (I'm emphasising this because it is a quote from Guidelines for nominators for Wikimedia FP.) Besides to me that paricular image is neither beatiful nor valuable, if of course Anrie would not mind me to have my own opinion. OK, Anrie? Thanks, Anrie. Oh, by the way, Anrie, could you please remind me what else I "was told before" and (what is even more important) by whom I "was told before".--Mbz114:51, 13 July 2007 (UTC)Mbz1[reply]
Thanks AngMoKio. And you, my dear Mbz1, are always putting value on a level with encyclopedic value. That might be true for wikipedia, but once again we are here at wikimedia, so value can be something different too. --Simonizer21:40, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Everybody, (including Anrie) you have won. Next time, when I oppose a no value picture I would write:"I do not see anything special in that picture." Do you believe it would be OK?--Mbz116:44, 14 July 2007 (UTC)Mbz1[reply]
Oppose I'm sorry, but whoever did the chromatic abberration reduction on the image did a terrible job. It now looks like each petal has been smeared or blurred. You should have cloned in some background cutting the CA out. Aside from that dislike the grey object top LHS, dislike the browny arc mid LHS, and consider the image overall underexposed and lacking any punch/interest --Fir0002www06:27, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support FYI this is not a cut flower; rather it is a very small weed "daisy", found in a field of grass, not the kind a florist would use. (Think buttercups and clovers...) They grow in patches in the grass, like weeds, and don't get much taller than a blade of grass, either. Jina Lee04:22, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]