Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Maori Student Carving

Maori Student Carving

Reason: Illustrates the process of Maori wood carving quite well, of reasonably good quality and IMHO passes the rules, maybe except for the caption as I have no idea what else to add (see description page for the basic caption).
Articles this image appears in: Maori culture
Creator: Antilived
Nominator: antilived^{T | C | G}

Support — antilived^{T | C | G} 07:25, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Support for both versions, slight preference for edit 01 - great photo, very encyclopaedic, I've adjusted the levels slightly. Good job. And for the caption: it's Māori, not Maori. So a new caption:

Māori students from The New Zealand Maori Arts & Crafts Institute in Rotorua making traditional Māori styled wood carvings. New Zealand has experienced a surge in willingness to preserve the Māori culture, and large numbers of tourists visiting the country to witness it has not commercialised the area.

—Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ φ 10:08, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've edited the original from raw to a slightly darker exposure. --antilived^{T | C | G} 21:23, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support, it has a good composition and is illustrative of the subject. It would be perfect if a bit more of the carving was visible! Jellocube27 11:08, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
weak support I'd like to see more of the carving itself. Debivort 19:59, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
~~Support~~ per above, though I would also like to see more of the carving. I have no preference to which version (they are very similar).--HereToHelp 13:30, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- After reading the votes below, I too much agree with them. A far better picture is possible, and this one really doesn't illustrate much of anything really well. Is it the culture, the carving process, or the carving itself? Such, I now Oppose.--Here T oHelp 01:51, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose 8thstar 18:59, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, the carving is not really visible, the green tool is distracting, the composition is uninspiring. This subject could/should definately get a FP, but a better picture could be taken with relative ease. Even the Support votes above note that the carving is not visible. Witty lama 23:54, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well if I want a picture of an actual Maori carving I would have just taken a picture of a finished carving, not a work in progress. Here you see the draft lines, some finished carved koru pattern, and an actual person carving them; although I do take the criticism of not showing much of the hand and thus the actual process of carving, the carving itself is really not the main point of the image. --antilived^{T | C | G} 07:24, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose This does not illustrate "Maori culture", it poorly illustrates "carving," with most of the tool and the carver's hands hidden. Also, the composition is messy, and this is the least striking image on the Maori culture page. Enuja 16:32, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 01:19, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]