Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Foggy Watch Hill Cove sunrise.jpg

File:Foggy Watch Hill Cove sunrise.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places#United States
•  Info all by me. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 17:51, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support –Juliancolton | ^Talk 17:51, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Tomascastelazo (talk) 18:19, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support wow! -- KennyOMG (talk) 19:09, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Question - I'd like the people who are wowed by this photo to please explain why, because so far, I'm not getting it, and maybe if you give me something to think about, I might. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:42, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

• Just speaking for myself, what drew me to this scene (and prompted me to unpack my camera gear again after calling it quits for the morning) was the vague "X" shape created by the sailboat masts and their reflections... as well as the atmospherics, obviously. I thought it was a nice juxtaposition of the serene fog and slight visual tension of the intersecting diagonals. I did consider a more high-contrast version, which may have made the image pop a little more, but decided on what looked most faithful to reality. I do sometimes have trouble curating my own work so who knows... –Juliancolton | ^Talk 20:00, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

• Julian, we are all partially blind when it comes to our own photos. ;) It's a well-established fact. --cart-Talk 20:17, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

•  Support Wow! And Ikan, explaining the "wow" of a photo is just a hard as describing why you are moved by certain pieces of music but I will give this a try from my point of view. Any maritime fog photo has the allure of 'The Flying Dutchman' fantasy/imagination. In this photo it is enhanced by the fact that things are not as we normally expect them to be. Here, the reflection of the sun is brighter than the actual sun, the horizion is obliterated and we are in a sort of primordeal void and on top of that the masts of the boats are not aligned vertically and horizontally as we are used to. Instead they are sticking out at odd angles from a central point where they are reflected and the whole thing looks like something out of this world. The mast-thing is also placed in a hamonious way in the composition and the color is timeless. Seeing this photo gives me the feeling of peering into something mysterious, sort of like the first time I heard "Riders on the Storm" (even if there is no storm present here). There. That is as much of picking my brain as you will get. --cart-Talk 20:12, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

• Thanks. That was really interesting. Also, Julian, I do see the vague "X". -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:34, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
• That support rationale was a work of art in its own right. Thank you. :) –Juliancolton | ^Talk 21:07, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
• Only thing I'd like to add to this is the tension created between the disagreement of the extreme symmetry on the right and the Sun's mirror image being in the "wrong" place on the left. -- KennyOMG (talk) 21:55, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 22:50, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Stephen King's The Mist --The Photographer 23:16, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Strong support I saw this over at QIC and hoped we would see it here. I am glad it has been seen so soon. Stunning mood. Daniel Case (talk) 00:09, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Looks like an alien flying robot, pretty cool. dllu (t,c) 00:58, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Per others. --Code (talk) 04:29, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Incredibly nice! --Basotxerri (talk) 08:15, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 08:40, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support I like it. --Villy Fink Isaksen (talk) 09:11, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Cayambe (talk) 09:40, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 17:41, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support WClarke 18:38, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 03:18, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support and I'll be glad to see Category:Featured picture of Rhode Island — Rhododendrites ^talk |  03:27, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support In first moment I was thinking it was a snapshot. However when I start looking much better to this image I realize this is a brilliant shot --Michielverbeek (talk) 07:39, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Jakubhal 08:11, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 11:48, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support big wow, this image will also go to the natural phenomena gallery Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 06:43, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 15:40, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 22 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Yann (talk) 15:26, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places#United States