Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Japanese buddhist monk by Arashiyama cut

 
Buddhist monk begging at Oigawa, Arashiyama, Kyoto, Japan.
 
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This is a picture I took a while back in Arashiyama, Kyoto. Maybe it doesn't have much of a "wow factor" but I think it's a really nice and representative picture of a begging monk. The background looks pretty nice too. I put this picture up at Picture peer review a while back and the comments were , although few, positive, so I decided to give it a go. I know there are some problems with the picture (like the blown highlights) but I'm hoping that isn't too big of a problem. I've uploaded the original too, maybe somebody else can make a better job out of it.
Articles this image appears in
Kyoto, Zen, Buddhist monasticism, Mendicant
Creator
User:Mackan (Marubatsu at Commons)
Nominator
Mackan
I didn't actually ask him, but that's what mendicants look like in modern Japan.
So you don't think leaving it in would distract from the subject? I can't imagine more people would support the picture if it were included...Mackan 21:55, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
A catch-22, I know. ~ trialsanderrors 22:00, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, btw, I'd like to ask you to be more specific about "lots of technical problems". Mackan 20:33, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Blown highlights (water, hat, sleeve), slanted posts, concrete tiles OOF. I think most has been mentioned already. ~ trialsanderrors 04:37, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, what blur are you referring to? Mackan 10:56, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
On what grounds? I can assure you it is, of a Japanese monk. If it was a picture of a Chinese monk, it wouldn't be representative of a Japanese one, and vice versa. There is no picture which could represent all "Asian mendicant monks". Mackan 21:33, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Yes, but "some are more equal than others". We associate mendicant orders with poverty and begging for alms, and I believe that is still the case with the majority of mendicant monks in Asia. That is why I don't think this one is really representative. - Alvesgaspar 12:42, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I think that judgement is really unfair, with that rationale no picture of a Japanese monk could ever become a featured picture, but instead of saying more about that, I'd like to remind you that this picture is also used in the articles of Kyoto and Zen. It seems unfair then that you would oppose it of you're only gripe is the fact that it's not representative for a "pan-Asian" mendicant (whose appearances could be discussed).Mackan 14:43, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. Mackan 12:41, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted Raven4x4x 07:49, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]