Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Eiderstedt marshland

Eiderstedt marshland

Marshland in Eiderstedt, Schleswig-Holstein

I'm nominating this image because of the way it feels. I like the clouds hanging overhead, I like the color of the grass, and I love the bikepath cutting through the plant life at that angle. The man on the bike and the hills or trees on the horizon give it a sense of scale. I think this is really quite a marvelous landscape shot. Photographed and uploaded by Jan van der Crabben (Jvdc).

• Nominate and support. - Branddobbe 06:53, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
• I like the colors, but the picture is small, and the horizon does not look like it's really horizontal. Phils 14:15, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
  • I don't see why it matters if the horizon is horizontal. -Branddobbe 19:43, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
    • I agree horizontal isnt too important, but a lot of people don't. I can understand why they would want a horizontally aligned picture in an encyclopedia as it can throw off the slope of things, especially pictures with structures. So I advise you try to correct the hoizontal before voting, along with the size if possible.
• Oppose - Small size and mostly washed out sky are big drawbacks.... --Deglr6328 23:56, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
  • I don't see how the sky is washed out. Also, is large size a requirement for this or something? I think it's a decent size for a picture. -Branddobbe 03:27, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
• Neutral. I like it, but it's bordering on small. Enochlau 06:21, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
• supportRichardkselby 00:30, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose. Boring and hardly striking. --ScottyBoy900Q∞ 03:41, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
• Support. - JediMaster16 07:30, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
• Support - A fine landscape - First, I live in a large European city, and when I'm not travelling, I forget places like this even exist. Second, what kind of lanscape has such curiously thin stone paths running into the horizon - to me this is exotic. Third, compositionally interesting, with the perspective lines (including the clouds) converging on the bike-path, and the natural grassy expanse on the right providing contrast to the man-made on the left. More contrast in the color of the grass, and the color of the clouds, and in the size of the figures in relation to the landscape. Fourth, this image made me discover the Featured picture candidates section. - Tdiew 11:22, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
• I am the photographer and will just comment on what is said without voting. If you look closely, the picture is horizontal. Take something rectangular, align it onto the edge of the photo on your screen, and you'll see that it's 99% horizontal. Or, go into photoshop and draw a line. The non-horizontal-ness is an optical illusion due to a) a slight spherical effect from the lens and b) the footpath, which is angling away to the left -- the eye likes to think that it's straight and "adjusts" the horizon accordingly. As I scanned this from a slide, I don't have a bigger version of this right now, but could get one once I hae moved into my new flat and have my slides back. Thamis 13:21, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Not promoted although it was very very close. If Thamis can get a larger version of the image it would probably pass if it was nominated again. Raven4x4x 23:53, 12 October 2005 (UTC)