Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Starting the charcoal.jpg

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•  Info created and uploaded by Tomascastelazo - nominated by W.carter -- Cart (talk) 13:52, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support I asked Tomas for some of his other photos and he delivered! :) Not an easy subject to shoot, the smoke is beautifully captured. Ok, the briquette in the foreground is a bit unsharp but that is forgiven since all the focus is on the smoke. The small graininess is very appropriate since smoke is minute particles and not something smooth and fluid. I'm a bit uncertain about the file name though, it doesn't sound like totally correct English to me, perhaps some native English speaker has a suggestion. -- Cart (talk) 13:52, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Very good! --GeXeS (talk) 14:06, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 15:29, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Yeah! --Yann (talk) 15:33, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support - Very good to look at, and the unsharpness is perfectly fine - as you said, it's a picture of smoke. I think the name is OK, too. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 16:28, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

• Thanks for the input Ikan, I wasn't sure if there was some sort of special expression connected with this, like "Firing up the grill" or "Starting the barbecue". --Cart (talk) 17:26, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

"Barbecue" is a controversial term, as it has a more specific meaning in the South and Midwest, but I think "starting the charcoal" may be an expression. I'm not sure, but it sounds OK to me. "Firing up the grill" is a good one, too. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 17:30, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Technically, this isn't charcoal. They're briquettes. :P --Peulle (talk) 18:08, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Even more technical: Charcoal compressed into briquettes. ;) Anyway, 'briquettes' is in the description and categories. In many languages we sloppily say coal or charcoal about anything resembling it. In Swedish we would call this Tända kolet på grillen literally "Light up the coal on the grill". So many colloquial ways of describing this male activity. (In Sweden at least the grill is 'male terretory'.) :) --Cart (talk) 18:48, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

•  Support Poco² 18:28, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Basile Morin (talk) 00:29, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 02:53, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 06:46, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 09:57, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Tournasol7 (talk) 10:47, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
• Forgot to  Support. I like it when images that contain something different show up here; it's mostly animals, buildings and nature. --Peulle (talk) 12:15, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

• +1, hence the nom. :) --Cart (talk) 12:35, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

•  Support -- KTC (talk) 16:12, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Basotxerri (talk) 17:35, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 21:28, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 05:57, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Laitche (talk) 16:56, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- P999 (talk) 17:47, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Smokin'!! Daniel Case (talk) 02:43, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 11:21, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 15:35, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 18:06, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --The NMI User (talk) 07:51, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 23 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 21:51, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

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