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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Objects/Vehicles/Water_transport#Sailboats
•  InfoThe canoe is an integral part of Polynesian life. It is used as means of transport between villages or houses and in sports activities on the water. Created by Brigittebourger - uploaded by Brigittebourger - nominated by Andrew J.Kurbiko -- Andrei (talk) 13:08, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- Andrei (talk) 13:08, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Ahhhhh... --Cart (talk) 14:24, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Question Through the entire right half of the water surface, there’s sharply depicted ripples alternating with complete blurry areas. Where does that come from? It looks a bit unrealistic. --Kreuzschnabel 14:36, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
  • I can not answer that since I'm not the author --Andrei (talk) 14:56, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

• Looks perfectly ok to me. In many spots the color of the light reflected on the waves is the same as the color of the reflected clouds so the patches become almost uniform in color and some may see that as 'blurry' in a photo. Light on waves can make very strange patterns sometimes. --Cart (talk) 15:00, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

•  Oppose not an excellent picture for me.--Fischer.H (talk) 14:48, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose - Too much not very interesting sky and water and not enough canoe. Also, the message about canoes being integral to Polynesian life is undercut by the "RAINA TOURS [phone number]" text on the front canoe, and a closeup would make the photo even more of an advertisement. I recognize that some people consider this kind of image highly artistic, but it's not that interesting to me. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 18:09, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per Ikan Poco a poco (talk) 20:21, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Really great. Yes, a bit unusual for what we're used to see here but that's makes it special. I can imagine the photo to be in an exhibition hall as an example of minimalist photography. --Podzemnik (talk) 20:40, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Terrible quality, but I do see myself hanging this at home. Beautiful minimalism. - Benh (talk) 21:28, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Ikan.--Peulle (talk) 07:40, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Per Benh and Podzemnik. Cmao20 (talk) 07:51, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support per others. -- Colin (talk) 13:06, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Neutral Wonderful composition. IMO there are JPEG artifacts. So please upload an uncompressed image. --XRay ^talk 13:59, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --GRDN711 (talk) 14:04, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Weak support Not sharp at full size, but per Podzemnik and Benh. One of mine, similar to this, failed last August, but I like this kind. Space evokes me freedom and tranquility -- Basile Morin (talk) 15:29, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

•  Comment - I voted for that photo. It has a much better composition than this one, in my opinion: Because of all the individual trees and reflections thereof, it is not static like this one, even though it's certainly a peaceful image. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 18:31, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

• Thanks, yes, I remember. Here the perfectly flat water, mirroring, with the pastel colors and the desert horizon, strike me. Feeling of quietness through this simple composition - Basile Morin (talk) 00:51, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

•  Oppose heavy compression and composition is weak. --Ivar (talk) 16:12, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support - beauty in its simplicity. I echo Cart's "Ahhhhh..." ^Atsme _Talk 📧 17:53, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Neutral Weak support Great minimalism, gives me a sigh of relief, but quality is not as good, and (as Ikan noted) the advertising on the canoe is irritating. --Aristeas (talk) 19:22, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose Yes, it’s nice, but image quality is below FP threshold IMHO. Puzzling rendering of water surface as mentioned by me above, and the only thing within the frame is unsharp (motion blur). --Kreuzschnabel 20:05, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose At first sight o.k. but at a closer look the quality is missing.--Ermell (talk) 22:58, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support − Meiræ 23:54, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per Ermell −-Llez (talk) 05:39, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 12:39, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 19:09, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Tomer T (talk) 16:13, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Palauenc05 (talk) 17:24, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support lovely minimal painterly qualities here. a good example of how looking at things at 100% resolution sometimes misses the bigger picture (hashtag #idiomsinnaturalcontext). It's full of technical issues and not so exciting when zoomed in, but the full composition is good enough to overcome. — Rhododendrites ^talk |  06:35, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support per Cart. It would make a great album or book cover ... Daniel Case (talk) 15:03, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Gnosis (talk) 18:51, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Weak support A more traditional and/or "pure" canoe and sharper image would certainly be nicer, but I like the composition a lot. --Domob (talk) 19:07, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Laitche (talk) 06:49, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 20 support, 8 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /--Cart (talk) 00:23, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Objects/Vehicles/Water_transport#Sailboats