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•  Info Wemyss Bay railway station was awarded a top five star rating in Simon Jenkins' Britain's 100 best railway stations and is the only such station that isn't a major city terminus. A very similar image to this features on the cover of his book. This combined railway station and ferry terminus was built in 1903 to serve tourists from Glasgow visiting destinations along Firth of Clyde, but nowadays mainly just trips to Rothesay on the Isle of Bute. The curving roof, central ticket office and floral displays are the notable features. All by me. -- Colin (talk) 15:46, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Colin (talk) 15:46, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Comment Great subject. Looks like there's a small CW tilt, though.--Peulle (talk) 17:24, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

• Peulle I have tried to fix. -- Colin (talk) 19:17, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 18:02, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Uoaei1 (talk) 18:14, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Laitche (talk) 21:36, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Peulle (talk) 21:48, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Michielverbeek (talk) 22:44, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:20, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Jacek Halicki (talk) 23:23, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 05:23, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --XRay ^talk 06:32, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 11:01, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 12:49, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Tournasol7 (talk) 15:51, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support nice shot. Charles (talk) 19:33, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 03:16, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- -donald- (talk) 05:18, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --The NMI User (talk) 09:47, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Basile Morin (talk) 10:30, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose Asymmetrical cut, obstructing signal traversed in the middle bottom, extreme distortion and blurred on the left bottom border --Photographer 01:40, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

• This photo, as with many I took that day, was taken with my Samyang 10mm ultra wide-angle lens. It has an angle-of-view of 109.6° which is as far as you can reasonably take a rectilinear lens. This photo was taken with the camera pointing slightly up, to bring in more ceiling and less boring concrete floor, and then corrected afterwards in Lightroom. Unlike with my stitched photos, I'm far more restricted about where to crop and the sharpness is not as good, though I think still quite acceptable. I tried to position the camera in the middle to get pleasing symmetrical results, but it isn't perfect. One problem is the sign, which you can see in File:Wemyss Bay railway station concourse 2018-08-25 5.jpg (middle-left) and is bright red, white and yellow and very distracting if you saw that in the middle of the scene. I tried to position so it was edge-on and not catch the eye. It isn't the sort of sign I can just lift up and move out of the way, without getting arrested by the transport police :-). You can also see from that photo how the top of the ceiling in the photo has curved over towards me and is quite close. This will cause the wide-angle perspective distortion by magnifying, but I think here the straight lines of the roof don't look unpleasantly distorted. Other things like round windows and people tend to illustrate that distortion in a more uncomfortable manner. I agree it isn't a perfect photo and I'd have liked to have had the time to make a stitched panorama. -- Colin (talk) 07:39, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your rich explanation and, I understand what is your intention here, however, I think that this photo is not up to your previous work. I hope you can take my negative feedback as a stimulation to do better job (maybe in a combination of nodal ninja photos). Sincerely this place deserves a perfectionist work that you have accustomed us to appreciate and taste, with enormous size and majestic quality. Obviously my opinion about this photo is little shared, or simply people vote positively because we love you --Photographer 23:57, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

The Photographer, ha ha, I'm not sure about "love". I hope I've ruffled enough feathers with oppose votes and criticism that nobody should feel bad about giving me an oppose if warranted. I guess this is more similar to my fisheye photos than my stitched panorama photos. Or as a good photo of a great subject, rather than a great photo of a great subject, which would be ideal. I would love to go back and take a better shot but that's quite unlikely any time soon. I live 400 miles away, the weather is not always as good as this, and stations can be busy. -- Colin (talk) 07:30, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

•  Support a very strong symmetrical view may be classic but looks over time boring. A little bit asymmety brings the image alive. The other reasons for this picture are self-evident. --Wladyslaw (talk) 05:50, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 14:03, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support--Tozina (talk) 18:33, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- P999 (talk) 17:58, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Pofka (talk) 11:17, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 23 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Cart (talk) 19:44, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Interiors#United Kingdom