Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mount Roraima

Mount Roraima

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 27 Jan 2013 at 00:19:35 (UTC)

Original – Clear morning at Mount Roraima, as seen from the road leading there from the Paraitepuy pemon community, in Gran Sabana.

Reason: An incredible high-quality shot of the Mount Roraima, taken by Wikipedian Paolo Costa Baldi. Already featured on the Spanish Wikipedia.
Articles in which this image appears: Mount Roraima
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Landscapes
Creator: Paolo Costa Baldi

Support as nominator --— ΛΧΣ²¹ 00:19, 18 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support An EV. AutomaticStrikeout (T • C) 01:51, 18 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support : A nice work Mydreamsparrow (talk) 07:27, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
~~Weak~~ Oppose. Have been holding off on this one cos I've been wanting to convince myself to support, but the mountain itself is just too hazy, so much so that it and the clouds above it almost look artifacted, and meaning we get see very little detail of the actual mountain. It's a little concerning the description says "Clear morning at Mount Roraima..."; is this as good as it gets? A number of images on Commons suggest it's not, but that there's so many on Commons also suggests this is not as rare a shot as I might have expected and which could have allowed for some exceptions to be made on quality. --jjron (talk) 11:33, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Well, due to the highness and position of the mount, getting a clear shot without the haze is very hard from a long distance. I have checked the category and most pictures there are taken from closer distances, losing the perspective of how the mount looks from its surroundings and the contrast of it and the Gran Sabana. — ΛΧΣ²¹ 17:18, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Most of it looks to be in shadow. Haloing from tonemapping of some form is too noticeable for me. I think maybe the photo should be taken in the afternoon. JJ Harrison (talk) 03:23, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
In the afternoon is worse. I have been close to that place (Puerto Ordáz) and those clouds are there all the time. As I explained above, the only clear shot would be from a more close position, but it will lose the contrast that this picture holds between the Tepuy and the Gran Sabana. — ΛΧΣ²¹ 01:34, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support There is sometimes at FP a tendency towards untypical views - If mists or clouds are there 99.9% of the time; you should take it on the day, once in a decade, that they lift, and so on. We can use different pictures to show different aspects of a subject, this is very good for this aspect. And do remember that the cliffs, while an important part of the mountain, wouldn't generally be considered the whole mountain - the elevation below them that a closer view would leave out is also part. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 06:12, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support - The shot itself is fine. I don't think clouds detract significantly from the EV of a picture that already shows scale. ceranthor 16:57, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I don't think the cloud is the problem. As a picture of the mountain, it fails to do what it most important and show the mountain due to the haze. --Muhammad(talk) 10:41, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:19, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Only 62.5% support for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:19, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]