Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Beaver Dam in Algonquin

Beaver Dam in Algonquin

**Original** - A beaver's dam in Fassett creek in Algonquin Park, Ontario.

Reason: High resolution. Subject is the point of attention of the picture with almost no extra distractions. Dynamic oblique (subtle) lines of sea weed and horizon to make picture attractive. Natural colors.
Articles this image appears in: beaver dam
Creator: Franklin

Support as nominator --Franklin
Comment. Appears to be tilted (I'm not sure whether it really is tilted or not, but it looks that way to me). Also, there's no sense of scale: how big is this dam? Spikebrennan (talk) 14:56, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It is tilted indeed. It is a way of making the horizon line opposed to the sea weed lines to make the picture more attractive. The dam is little. You can see that from the width of the seaweed or the width of the branches. A little thinking will give you a notion of scale. There is no need to make a CSI-police picture throwing a pencil in the dam to give sense of scale Franklin.vp 16:01, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Poor sharpness and resolution on the dam. Possible chromatic aberration (I'm not an expert) on the clouds and dam. I dislike the tilted effect: in my opinion the numerous parallel horizontal lines in the picture mean that the image is more appealing with the tilt corrected. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 16:24, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Take a striped piece of paper from a notebook and put a square of it in a little frame with the lines perfectly horizontal. Do the same but putting this time the lines in a oblique position, put next some lines kind of perpendicular to the lines of the paper keeping them oblique... you will see how your interest in the picture increases. There is indeed a little chromatic aberration on the dam. Franklin.vp 16:52, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose sharpless --Childzy ¤ Talk 23:25, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per above. Staxringold _talk^contribs 23:40, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per above. MER-C 06:52, 25 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per above. Still a useful picture though. Noodle snacks (talk) 12:18, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 11:53, 30 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]