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File:Mount Stuart House 2018-08-25.jpg, featured[edit]
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 16 Sep 2018 at 13:07:55 (UTC)
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- Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture/Castles and fortifications#United Kingdom
Info Mount Stuart House on the east coast of the Isle of Bute, Scotland, is a Gothic Revival country house and the ancestral home of the Marquesses of Bute. It was designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson for the 3rd Marquess of Bute in the late 1870s. The two wings are older. The home has a fine marble hall, private chapel, first-floor conservatory and heated pool. During World War I it was used as a military hospital and the conservatory was an operating theatre. All by me. -- Colin (talk) 13:07, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
Support High resolution panorama with sunlight bringing out the three dimensions of this "magnificent Gothic pile". -- Colin (talk) 13:07, 7 September 2018 (UTC)- Support Impressive resolution. Midday light is a bit harsh, and the WB looks a bit cold to me. --Uoaei1 (talk) 14:21, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
- Uoaei1 I think you are right, I've adjusted the WB and it is much happier now. -- Colin (talk) 14:29, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Laitche (talk) 15:29, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Michielverbeek (talk) 17:25, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
- Support - Benh (talk) 17:49, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
- Support Poco2 19:41, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
- Support per others for this beautiful photo. You could crop out the unsharpest part of the foreground, as I don't see any great advantage in including it, but that's not a good reason not to support. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:35, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
- Ikan thanks for the support. I discussed how to crop this with a friend, and this was the arrangement we thought worked best overall. I know that when you zoom in, the near grass is out-of-focus, but in the whole it positions the building nicely in the frame and the cut grass lines form weak leading lines. The photo was taken from 160m distance, which is great for ensuring the vertical perspective is not distorted, and the view corresponds roughly to a 45mm lens on a full frame camera, which turns out to also be considered an ideal view for minimising distortions. A lot of buildings are shot much closer, which can create some unpleasant wide-angle distortions, though it would mean the foreground is more likely to be in focus. Can't have everything I guess! -- Colin (talk) 09:10, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
- Support--Ermell (talk) 22:03, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
- Support You hit the bull's eye. BRAVO! -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 02:27, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 06:07, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Tomascastelazo (talk) 06:18, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 12:09, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
- Support :-) --XRay talk 12:35, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
- Support I wish the sky hadn't been so pale, but ... you probably didn't have any control over that, and in any event it makes the building pop out more. Daniel Case (talk) 15:31, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
- Support -- Sixflashphoto (talk) 02:45, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
- Support Good job here! --Podzemnik (talk) 08:08, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
- Support -- P999 (talk) 21:52, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Code (talk) 03:30, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
- Support --The NMI User (talk) 03:47, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
Oppose The main subject is presented very well and detailed. But the unsharp grass on the bottom of the image is disturbing and unnecessary. Since I would prefer a more extreme aspect ratio and a lower image height. --Milseburg (talk) 10:59, 10 September 2018 (UTC)- Support Per Ikan Kekek; I propse to cut off the lower half of the grass at the bottom --Llez (talk) 13:58, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
Confirmed results:
Result: 20 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:36, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Architecture/Castles and fortifications#United Kingdom
