Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:St. Johannes XXIII., Cologne, June 2021 -2.jpg

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured_pictures/Places/Architecture/Religious_buildings#Germany
•  Info Another shot at brutalism. St. Johannes XXIII., a church erected in 1968/1969 for the catholic community of the University of Cologne, is a controversial landmark - as pretty much all brutalist buildings are. It is tightly squeezed in between a couple of rather uninteresting buildings, making it extremely diffcult for the photographer to capture the whole structure in good light. This nom was taken in the morning, an alternative taken in the afternoon failed recently. All by me --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:39, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:39, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
•  Weak oppose Not a bad pic at all, but doesn’t wow me too much either. Maybe it’s the foreground railings which are too dominant. Hard to avoid, I know :( Edges of the concrete structure look oversharpened. --Kreuzschnabel 13:35, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
•  Support This difficult object is well photographed for me. Perhaps it can be cut at d sides slightly.--Famberhorst (talk) 15:26, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
•  Weak oppose per Kreuzschnabel. I like the light and I like the angle, but the railings are just too distracting. Is it possible in some way to get a slightly elevated angle here? Daniel Case (talk) 15:33, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

• The image was taken from a slightly elevated position: I was standing on whatever this is (air vent? bench? both?) ;-) --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 16:04, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

Ah. I was going to suggest you get on top of a van or something, but then it occurs to me that under German law you'd lose your FoP if you did that. Daniel Case (talk) 18:12, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

FoP would be one thing... but it's also technically impossible to park anything there. ;-) --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 06:31, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

Have a look at File:St._Johannes_XXIII.,_Cologne,_June_2021.jpg. IMHO the light is by far more striking there, with the sun reflection giving a nice counterpoint to the structure, and I added a crop suggestion to feature :) --Kreuzschnabel 12:26, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestion! The bottom crop would appear a little bit awkward, I'm afraid, too much of the church would get lost. And lots of people would complain about the "tiny resolution" anyway. But you're right, I do like this picture, cropped or uncropped. The pronounced chiaroscuro and the reflection add something special. The nom didn't meet with much applause, sadly. --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 12:45, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

•  Comment Why don't you make it an almost 16:9 crop? I think that could bring out the church itself better. Just a thought. --Cart (talk) 20:06, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
•  Comment I like Cart’s 16:9 crop; for me it even seems to reduce (can’t explain how) the distracting effect of the railings. --Aristeas (talk) 05:59, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

• If you can make one major line of a disturbing element end in a corner of the frame, it will trick the mind into thinking it is "disappearing". --Cart (talk) 09:09, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

• Ah, that’s the trick! Thank you very much, Cart, for your enlightening explanation! Everyday one learns new things on the FP page … --Aristeas (talk) 16:56, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

•  Info per popular demand and common sense: I've uploaded a cropped version, pinging Kreuzschnabel, Famberhorst, Daniel Case, Cart, Aristeas --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 06:31, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

•  Support Probably the best solution. It’s a pity that the railing and the mediocre surrounding buildings still weaken the effect of the brutalist church, but it is impressive enough for me. --Aristeas (talk) 08:11, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Kreuzschnabel. -- Karelj (talk) 16:36, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
•  Support Per Aristeas --Llez (talk) 16:58, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
•  Oppose Useful but doesn't work for me on this level, due to the architecture and plain sky. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:55, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per above and compo doesn't work for me RolfHill (talk) 17:55, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

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Result: 4 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--A.Savin 13:08, 9 July 2021 (UTC)