Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Nashi pear tree in bloom

Nashi pear tree in bloom

Reason: The asian pear is a beautiful fruit in its own right, but I believe Fir0002 has captured an even more memorable scene with a radiant rainbow and a scene of vivid color with the pyrus pyrifolia in full bloom.
Articles this image appears in: Pyrus pyrifolia
Creator: Fir0002

Support as nominator — --Valley2city^₪‽ 06:49, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Gives encyclopedic info on the tree, has stunning composition. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:26, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Background is distracting, not very high resolution, not very sharp. The image is highly reproducable and could be composed much better. Cacophony 09:38, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support Agree with Cacophony, but there's nothing wrong with it, just isn't great…except the composition, which probably is hard to duplicate.--Here T oHelp 10:26, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Looks like a small crop from a bigger picture. The quality is a bit disappointing for the given size. And although I like the rainbow it does not help illustrating the flowers. More flower detail and concentration to the main subject would be appropriate for an encyclopedic illustration. --Dschwen 11:07, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Beautiful picture, but does not illustrate its subject as well as it could. While the inclusion of the rainbow and surrounding scene is nice artistically, it distracts from the pear tree. Calliopejen1 11:29, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Unbalanced composition: tree cut off, rainbow obscured by flowers. --Janke | Talk 13:47, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Calliopejen. Witty Lama 23:24, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose The Image looks nice.. but the resolution is a bit low.Yzmo ^talk 15:20, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Janke; subject is unclear. --Phoenix (talk) 19:00, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Simply ugly and uninteresting, no defined subject and a DOF that doesn't know whether it is coming or going. --Vaelta 21:58, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose (with regrets). The appeal isn't there somehow. The rainbow makes me feel like it wants to be a condolence card. --Bagginz 06:51, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Out of interest, why "with regrets"? The photo is awful: cropped to a weird looking (condolence card) square shape, muddy dark sky, dull DOF that doesn't highlight any one aspect of the photo, the supposed "subject" climbing its way in and out of the picture without much context, not horizontal (not always a bad thing in my opinion, but here, yes), rainbow... well, I'm not going to go on. Why was this even proposed? It's ugly.--Vaelta 08:21, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"With regrets" because I think Fir0002 is one of the best, most productive shutterbugs around here. (Yes, I know he didn't nominate this, but I'd love to hear what he thinks of this picture.) I don't think it's ugly, but the composition feels unfocused. The rainbow, skimming the edge of the blossom, competes with it rather than compliments it, so it's not obvious what the picture is about. --Bagginz 15:31, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. The first time I saw this picture I wasn't sure if it was supposed to illustrate the pear blossoms or the rainbow. That's a problem. Amphy 16:55, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 08:44, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]