Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Canoes of Polynesia

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Original – Two natives with outrigger canoes at shoreline, Honolulu, Hawaii

Reason: A nice EV pic depicting a fine art subject. Just stumbled on it, but caught attention at once.
Articles in which this image appears: Polynesia
FP category for this image: May be landscapes(?)
Creator: Anonymous, preserved in US Library of Congress

Support as nominator – -The Herald (Benison) • ^{the joy of the LORD}_{my strength} 17:44, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – Indistinct and inky. Sca (talk) 22:17, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose far too blurry to be featured. Also, I don't know about the encyclopedic value of showing the bright colourful tropics in black and white... Mattximus (talk) 03:19, 26 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- @Mattximus: Where cultural traditions have changed, a historical image in black and white is going to win out over a colour one that's less authentic, though. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 13:20, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Per other – Jobas (talk) 12:10, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:43, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]