Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bareina

Bareina, Mauritania

Original - Bareina is a Bedouin town in Mauritania with a population of approximately 15,000. This is a view of the town minutes before a rainstorm began.

Reason: A well-composed, atmospheric image depicting a part of the world that is neglected in our featured pictures. The sharpness is not perfect, but the photo is well above the resolution requirements (so to the extent that sharpness is a problem, just imagine that it is downsampled a bit...).
Articles this image appears in: Bareina
Creator: Ferdinand Reus from Arnhem, Holland

Support as nominator --Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:25, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support - I thought this picture was brilliant when I originally added it to the article. The contrast in my view between the dark sky and the light send as well as the subject of the photo in my view is quite special. I didn't propose it myself as I usually get it wrong and propose photos which are too dark for "professional" eyes but I think the image is quite something, The dead football seems very out of place to, adding to the character of the image. Its probably not quite sharp enough or technically sound enough though for featured but it certainly has many good points, Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 16:35, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Full disclosure: I alerted Blofeld to this nomination bc I knew he had previously considered nominating it. Calliopejen1 (talk) 20:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 23:58, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support For people who look at blown whites and crushed blacks, this is a wet dream come true, right? Apart from the histogram, I also looked at the flickr gallery, and saw that he has a lot of amazing photographs. Hope someone is on the job. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 23:58, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There were about 90 already, and I've since uploaded about 60 more. See all of his photos we have so far at commons:Category:Ferdinand_Reus. Calliopejen1 (talk) 21:26, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Suppport per nom. Durova^Charge! 01:53, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support. High EV, good quality. Mostlyharmless (talk) 06:56, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Let me commit sacrilege against the photographer's composition (certainly it's a pretty image) and suggest a crop of a portion of the sky-- it's so striking that it could be seen as detracting from EV (one might think that the sky typically looks that way at that location). Spikebrennan (talk) 20:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support - no crop needed. The sky provides a striking entry point for your eye, leading down to the dry dusty foreground. - Peripitus (Talk) 21:02, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Excellent work. Might benefit (slightly) from a minor tweak to the sky, which is maybe a little grainy, but I don't think it's necessary. By the way, doing some tests, I think that cropping the sky would probably remove the the rather nice "wide open" feel of the image, hurting composition. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 19:52, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Question: Are we certain that this image is ok to use? I'm not au fait with licensing, but the photographer's Flickr profile says all rights reserved, and that he must be contacted for permission. Perhaps he's mistakenly applied the wrong creative commons licence? Could someone with a clearer understanding explain the contradiction? Thanks, :-) Maedin\^talk 19:03, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It appears the licensing was changed on flickr. (It was verified as valid earlier by our flickrreview bot.) licenses are non-revokable, so this isn't a problem. Calliopejen1 (talk) 02:30, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Bareina, Mauritania.jpg ~ ωαdεstεr16_♣T^C♣ 19:15, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]