Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Pescadero State Beach

Pescadero State Beach

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Original - Pescadero State Beach (meaning "the place to fish" in Spanish) is alongside State Route 1, located 14.5 miles south of Half Moon Bay and 1.5 miles west of the city of Pescadero in San Mateo County, California.The beach has a mile-long shoreline with sandy coves, rocky cliffs, tide pools, fishing spots and picnic facilities. Across the highway is Pescadero Marsh Natural Preserve, a popular spot for bird watchers and other naturalists.

Edit1

Edit 2 (photographer shadow cloned out)

Reason: adds EV to the article
Articles in which this image appears: Pescadero State Beach
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Landscapes
Creator: Mbz1

Support as nominator --Mbz1 (talk) 16:55, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. The plant at the bottom left appears very odd. The rear portion is out of focus, while the front portion is in focus, and portions of the rear are overlapping the front. It looks like a shorter DOF shot was tacked on to this one rather carelessly. Neverlookback75 (talk) 00:22, 01 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Added edit 1, the plant is gone.--Mbz1 (talk) 00:43, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I'm sorry, but irrespective of the above comments, the sheer fact that the shadow of the photographer is in the shot just spoils this immediately for me... gazhiley.co.uk 14:05, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I knew somebody would complain about my shadow. Of course it is easy to remove in photo shop , but it will be unnatural. The image was taken with a low Sun's conditions ,and yes there are shadows, including my own. If I am to cut my shadow, I need to cut the foreground rock too. Anyway...--Mbz1 (talk) 14:25, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

...Or just take the photo when the shadow isn't cast this way. -- mcshadypl ^T ^C 22:38, 3 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I agree - even the edit2 is annoying as the shadows in general are easily removed by taking the picture in the middle of the day - We should not have to accept this with shadows accross it... gazhiley.co.uk 11:13, 7 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Terrible picture with shadows like that. JFitch (talk) 10:55, 5 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit 2 -- Edit 2 deals with the issue of the photographer's shadow appearing in the picture. I don't have a problem with cloning the photo in this case, since we frequently accept pictures which have had very limited amounts of cloning applied. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 14:01, 5 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I will never forget this kind support--Mbz1 (talk) 19:56, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Weak support edit 2. Beautiful photograph, but it's difficult to tell how far away, or how large, this sandy beach is (or how high the cliffs are) without some kind of size reference. Spikebrennan (talk) 19:31, 7 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There's a bench at the upper right corner you can use to get an idea of how high the cliffs are.--Nanoman657 (talk) 14:13, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support Edit 2 per NotFromUtrecht.--Nanoman657 (talk) 14:13, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 2 per Nanoman657. Broccolo (talk) 15:39, 9 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support all, prefer Edit 2 -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 18:50, 9 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Question: The above vote appears to be late for the voting period. What is the procedure for late votes? --99of9 (talk) 01:22, 10 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

From my experience, votes are generally allowed until the nomination is closed. Spencer^T♦C 01:26, 10 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 11:12, 11 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

5.5 support, 3 oppose falls just short of 2/3. Makeemlighter (talk) 11:12, 11 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- But the last vote doesn't count, according to the rules (which are pretty clear). Should be be 4.5 sup; 3 opp. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 11:35, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]