Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Shell filling station

Shell filling station

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 13 Sep 2015 at 23:07:19 (UTC)

Original – A filling station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Sandakan, Sabah

Reason: High quality picture of a ubiquitous part of our lives. Has good EV for both Filling station and Royal Dutch Shell
Articles in which this image appears: Filling station and Royal Dutch Shell
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Others
Creator: Uwe Aranas

Support as nominator – — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:07, 3 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Very well shot. Though its obvious Crisco is in leagues with Big Oil to promote their product. GamerPro64 03:31, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support, but a little crop at the right side might help the balance. --DXR (talk) 11:24, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Tremonist (talk) 12:55, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – Sandakan is in Malaysia. Sca (talk) 13:17, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- And Sabah is the state in Malaysia in which Sandakan is located. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 04:31, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure it has much EV; it's deserted (though it looks the sort of place where you'd find at least one zombie in the store when you went in looking for supplies; maybe for one of the 24 jams it has on offer ATM); it's not really showing the purpose of a filling station when nobody is filling anything; it's dark; there's no real context, just some half-finished or derelict buildings in the background (definitely walking dead territory); I much prefer this one. Belle (talk) 23:00, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, not much going on here. Quite a lot of concrete. No people. Perhaps a little EV re the jumbo-size gas stations they evidently build over there? Sca (talk) 14:34, 5 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

24 jam = 24 hours [a day] Sca, this isn't all that much bigger than the Pertamina stations I usually use. Especially on the inter-provincial roads; those stations can get big. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 04:31, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Except for the pumps, sorta reminds me of a '60s or '70s U.S. Volkswagen dealership. Sca (talk) 15:01, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I'm not seeing much in the way of EV, due to Filling station already being fairly well stocked in that area... Some EV in Royal Dutch Shell though. Good quality image (they don't put the price per gallon on the sign by the road? Interesting.) Dusty777 18:33, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Not a lot of EV and I don't think the photograph is among the best work on Wikipedia. It's a decent photograph, but the lighting and composition are pretty lackluster. The cropping on the left side feels a little tight and the sky looks a bit dark on the left side as well. I think there's room for improvement, especially for such a common subject. Kaldari (talk) 18:50, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose Per Kaldari - I am inclined to agree... It's technically fine, but I don't get any sort of 'wow' about this - probably more due to the subject rather than the level of photography... I do agree taking this again on a nicer day would make it sparkle a bit more... Plus agree that the crop is tight, especially compared to the other side of the picture where there is quite a lot of space between the edge of the sign and the edge of the picture... gazhiley 11:54, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Yann (talk) 13:07, 13 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support per DXR.--Godot13 (talk) 22:54, 13 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Sandakan Sabah Shell-Station-Labuk Road-01.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 02:43, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Added to Places/Architecture instead. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 02:43, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]