Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Shangrila Lake

Shangrila Lake

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 25 Oct 2015 at 22:44:35 (UTC)

Original – Shangrila Lake also known as Lower Kachura Lake is a part of the Shangrila Resort, a popular tourist destination, in Skardu, Pakistan.

Reason: High quality image of an important tourist place in Pakistan which is attractive and interesting. This photo won 7th position in Wiki Loves Earth Pakistan 2015 and first position in international Wiki Loves Earth 2015.
Articles in which this image appears: Shangrila Lake
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Places/Landscapes
Creator: User:Zaeemsiddiq

Support as nominator – Saqib (talk) 22:44, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Looks great at thumb, but there's a high level of barrel distortion and almost no details at full size. Looks to me like denoising was too aggressive. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:25, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice image, high EV. Yann (talk) 23:50, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support, essentially agree with everything said by Yann, above. Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 03:23, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Resolution makes up for problems with JPEG encoding. Samsara 06:17, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Jobas (talk) 12:03, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Tremonist (talk) 12:22, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Frankly quite surprised by the amounts of support for this - very soft, especially around the edges of the picture... The trees look like they are painted on with a soft brush - no detail at all... No detail able to be seen of the huts (I pressume they are huts?) other than the roofs... Really no-where near the standard we normally pass here, and very small file size given the volume of available scenery in this picture... gazhiley 12:32, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Just add some of my very rare opposes. Looks great but ... the quality of the photo is not up to a featured pic standard... Hafspajen (talk) 13:11, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose- per opposes above (soft, lacking fine detail). Preview is very nice but doesn't hold up at full size...--Godot13 (talk) 19:58, 16 October 2015 (UTC) Hafs- very rare indeed![reply]
- I'm still amazed that we've never stopped penalising images for being uploaded at larger than necessary size. Samsara 06:56, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose A lovely photo, I like the way the edge of the lake is the mid point, which allows the reflection of the mountains in the water to be seen fully. I would love to go there! However, it lacks definition: even the full resolution image has blury woods. Chris TehGrauniad (talk) 13:27, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose could be a great image, but horrible CA and lack of sharpness ruin it. IMHO should be re-shot with more capable equipment. SkywalkerPL (talk) 17:21, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Agree with all of the above opposes. Fredlyfish4 (talk) 02:42, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:22, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]