Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Paulina Lake

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Original - Island or lake? Panorama taken while standing on the boat dock at Paulina Lake in Newberry National Volcanic Monument.

Reason: High quality panorama of a volcanic lake located in a national monument. Illustrates that panoramas can distort the perception of a feature -- island versus lake in this image.
Articles in which this image appears: Paulina Lake
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Panorama
Creator: Gabe Guss

Support as nominator --Gabeguss (talk) 19:54, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. A lovely scene, well lit, symmetrically balanced between sky and water and by the bridge. However, there are some niggles: The bridge provides a focus, leading the eye to ... a car park, which is kind of jarring; the symmetry of the tree reflections and the lakebed detail is disturbed by the ripples on the left side; it looks like some of the stitched panels are brighter than others (there's a bright band in the middle of the left-hand side, for example); and there's quite a bit of stuff floating on the water in the foreground, which could possibly be airbrushed out if that's not cheating. On balance, a very nice picture, but I don't think it makes FP grade. Rwxrwxrwx (talk) 21:05, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose The panorama is technically well executed and pretty. But I think your reason is actually working against you - for EV purposes the viewer shouldn't be asking the island vs lake question. As far as EV goes it would have been more profitable to turn around in my view. JJ Harrison (talk) 04:56, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 22:21, 30 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]