Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/lamp

Ammonite-Design streetlamps

Original - The ammonite-design streetlamps reflect the town's location on the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage site. The bird is a herring gull, Larus argentatus.

Reason: This was recently re-touched, and the image was made much more clear than before.
Articles this image appears in: Street light, Street furniture, Lyme Regis, Twilight
Creator: MichaelMaggs

Support as nominator - Milk's Favorite Cookie 01:19, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose Seems slightly blurry, the lampost is off-center, and that clumb of trees on the bottom left are distracting. Other than that, it's ok. Juliancolton ^{The storm still blows...} 01:32, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Eye-catching, but enc value seems to be something of an accident. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 01:36, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose not much enc. value. Cacophony (talk) 03:46, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose I supported this on Commons on photographic merit. Need to be convinced of its encyclopedic value to support here. Durova^Charge! 06:43, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Don't get me wrong, I like the image, quite a lot actually. But I have to agree with the above concerns about lack of encyclopedic value. The article it does the best at representing is street light, but as this is an exceptionally nice street light, I feel that it's not quite an accurate representation of the subject. Meets most of my criteria, but unfortunately I can't support. faithless (^speak) 10:25, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
OpposeBeing in silhouette really reduces the EV, though I agree it's a beautiful picture. Also, as Faithless mentioned, this rather pretty arrangement is hardly typical of modern street lights. Matt Deres (talk) 17:56, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support stunning. —αἰτίας •discussion• 18:36, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Is it just me or does the lamppost have jagged, aliased edges on the curves? Makes it look like it was cut-and-pasted onto the background. :S CillaИ ♦ XC 18:45, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's just you. This is an actual photo and there is no cutting or pasting. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 19:52, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's not just you. I see it too, though I think it's probably the result of downsampling (it's 2MP from an 8MP cam) rather than cut and paste. The relatively low dpi of computer moniters just isn't good at displaying this level of detail. Thegreenj 02:30, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Lack of EV. And the postprocessing makes it look like black cardboard. Plus I fail to see how the pic adds significant value to Street light. Oh, and the placement in Twilight is just wrong, the picture looks like it has been taken with the sun above the horizon! --Dschwen 15:41, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose No encyclopedia value, imo. crassic\^talk —Preceding comment was added at 20:26, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Agree it's a great looking image but I just don't see the encyclopaedic value, sorry. Guest9999 (talk) 00:01, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted . --John254 00:09, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]