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Aerial view of Golden Gate Bridge from the south
  • It was a Cessna 172M. My coworker graciously offered me a ride in his plane. Drones are prohibited over the Golden Gate Bridge. Since the Cessna was moving, I couldn't quite line up the bridge perfectly, but I think I got it fairly close. dllu (t,c) 10:31, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I'll support it as a VI, but I don't think the rendering of the bridge is quite good enough for FP - sorry. It just lacks the crispness we tend to see in other featured photographs.--Peulle (talk) 10:34, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose per Peulle; I also think the WB is a little on the warm side, and those boat wakes are a little distracting. Under different circumstances, though, I think a photo like this could be featurable. Daniel Case (talk) 17:55, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I don't think the boat wakes can be helped. Take a look at Category:Golden_Gate_Bridge_aerial_photographs. Boats, or boat wakes, can be seen in every photo. It is a rather popular bridge and there's a lot of boat traffic when the weather is good enough for aerial photography.

dllu (t,c) 21:19, 31 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I think it could be helped; perhaps by flying out shortly after dawn (especially at this time of year) when there aren't likely (IMO) to be many people pleasureboating. Daniel Case (talk) 20:21, 3 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I don't think there's anything wrong with the crispness: aerial photography is often not as good as this. I do agree the WB/colour looks warm, though not sure when it was taken (the timestamp is surely wrong). I'd support if the WB is correct or fixed.
  • Ah, I didn't spot the "(UTC)". Not perhaps very helpful for the file description - a local time would be useful. Well, if you think the warmth is due to the time-of-day then I guess I  Support. -- Colin (talk) 12:03, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I use UTC for my photos because I'm tired of having to change the clock in my camera every time I travel to a different time zone, and every time daylight savings time changes. Besides, all timestamps on Wikimedia Commons are in UTC. I suppose I could add to my upload script the ability to convert it to local time since I include GPS coordinates with every file. dllu (t,c) 00:21, 2 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • That would be helpful. The fact that Commons timestamps are UTC is irrelevant -- we need a universal time for knowing which actions occurred before which, regardless of where the person was located. But a photograph, if it shows a time at all, should be local time. -- Colin (talk) 07:09, 4 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 9 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Cart (talk) 13:54, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Architecture/Bridges
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