Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Briar Creek Reservoir

Briar Creek Reservoir

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 15 Feb 2015 at 14:49:12 (UTC)

Original – Briar Creek Reservoir (also known as Briar Creek Lake) in August

Reason: High technical quality (QI on Commons). The best picture of the subject (this is the only other picture). Useful in an article. CC-BY-SA license. Has coordinates for verification. No manipulation except for sharpening and color/shadow tweaks.
Articles in which this image appears: Briar Creek Reservoir, Briar Creek (Susquehanna River)
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Places/Landscapes
Creator: Jakec

Support as nominator – --Jakob (talk) 14:49, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - The bush is my concern.. - The Herald (here I am) 15:13, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Even if the bush could be gotten rid of, it's kind of part of the scenery. Plus it only obscures a small part of the lake. --Jakob (talk) 21:09, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. It's a bit, um, dull. 86.186.13.169 (talk) 21:02, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

But very encyclopedic. --Jakob (talk) 21:09, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - The whole reservoir isn't in frame. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:02, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Crisco 1492: (edit conflict) Hmm. I checked the FP list before nominating and found some other lakes that weren't entirely in frame: File:Crater Lake winter pano2.jpg, File:Lake mapourika NZ.jpeg, File:View of loch lomond.JPG, (actually I just found these), and finally File:Consolation-Lake-Szmurlo.jpg. Granted, they're old, but nobody made any comment about it and they haven't been delisted. --Jakob (talk) 23:12, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't vote on any of those. For the first two, their more lively lighting was almost certainly a factor. The second also had the subject in direct sunlight and higher contrast. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:17, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it matters that two small corners -- assuming that's all they are -- are not visible. Apart from overhead aerial shots, it is rare to get every single square yard of an irregularly shaped lake into shot. Usually there will be some part tucked around a corner that you can't exactly see. Unless there is something important or unexpected or dramatically different going on in the missing corners, I really don't see it as a big deal. 109.152.146.252 (talk) 14:14, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If this had something going for it other than just showing the lake, I may have agreed with you. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:34, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Just wondering why the lake looks so gray. Just because of the clouds? CorinneSD (talk) 23:11, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've uploaded a version with better contrast now. The lake isn't very deep, though, so it's not going to look blue in any case. --Jakob (talk) 23:39, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per Crisco 1492 - whole subject not visable. I appreciate Jakob that previous noms have passed, but this is the current standard - plus two wrongs don't make a right... Maybe the old ones need de-listing... gazhiley 13:31, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:55, 15 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]