Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Red Deer in Longford River

Reason: It has quite a few pixels, is our only picture of this particular canal and has deer to give it scale and illustrate water depth. Plus someone came to my talkpage and said they liked it within hours of it going up, so I thought I'd see what the FPC crowd thought of it
Articles this image appears in: Hampton Hill & Longford River
Creator: Jonathan Cardy

Support as nominator --Jonathan Cardy (talk) 21:04, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Poor composition and low EV. — raeky ^{(talk | edits)} 21:41, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Also like to add, that the placement of this picture on the two linked pages adds no value to those articles and should probably be removed. It's not a great representation of the river or the species. Seems like the picture placement (done today as well on both pages) was just done to meet the requirement it be used in an article for a FP nomination. — raeky ^{(talk | edits)} 21:43, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Admittedly its EV in Hampton Hill is limited, but I think it's quite reasonable in Longford River. It's actually quite an interesting shot IMO, maybe not FP quality, but not deserving of some of the scorn it's getting. --jjron (talk) 14:38, 10 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, its currently our only shot taken in Hampton Hill and does show a stretch of the boundary. But I probably need to source and then write something about the link between Hampton Hill and deer to illustrate the EV of that. Jonathan Cardy (talk) 17:16, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Quality is subpar and the deer, the main focal point, are not very discernible. -- mcshadypl ^T ^C 22:17, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - And suggest speedy closure. Snapshot-y, this picture is not sharp, unfortunately, and, though the only available image, I'm pretty sure it's easily replaceable. So this is an oppose. ceranthor 22:17, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ceran, yes it would be easy to to take another photo of the same locale, and I've plenty of photos of deer in the Hampton Hill end of Bushy Park. But I've only once previously seen a deer in the water, and though they arent the subject they do give a neat illustration of how shallow the Longford is; which is relevant to it being a canal to transport water as opposed to the many more recent canals of a similar width during the canal building era which were built for barge transport. As for the sharpness, I suspect that means that the FPC standards are beyond the limitations of my current photography skill and equipment. Jonathan Cardy (talk) 17:16, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Subject is unfortunately too small. Noodle snacks (talk) 00:13, 10 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per all above. Staxringold _talk^contribs 14:16, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Shoemaker's Holiday ^{Over 192 FCs served} 09:10, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]