Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Beech and ferns in Gullmarsskogen.jpg

File:Beech and ferns in Gullmarsskogen.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural
•  Info After a few days of rain during the first weeks of summer, this county almost explodes with fresh new green plants and even a natural area like Gullmarsskogen nature reserve looks like something from a garden catalogue. However, that will not last. Depending on how the summer turns out, it will all grow wild or dry up completely. I like the layers of fresh new leaves in this picture, with plants typical for a southwest Swedish forest. All by me, -- cart-Talk 20:45, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- cart-Talk 20:45, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Green, green, green ... --Uoaei1 (talk) 21:51, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Superb. PumpkinSky talk 00:44, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 03:31, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Tomascastelazo (talk) 03:42, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:46, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Info After looking at this on a better monitor I have tweaked the WB just a tiny bit. --cart-Talk 12:20, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Info I don't understand the picture, a lot of parts are not sharp? --Neptuul (talk) 13:09, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

• I deliberately set the aperture to f/5.6 and focused on getting the central branch of beech leaves sharp so that it would pop out from a softer background of greenery. Going for a higher aperture and getting everything sharp would have ruined the sense of layering it has now. An additional layering is made from the contrasting shapes and textures of the various foliage. --cart-Talk 13:48, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

•  Support *sigh* Forests. Normal me loves them, but for photographer me it's more like a nemesis – seems like I just can't figure out how to translate what I see into a picture. And then you come along and make it look so easy. Somehow you managed to bring structure into the chaos: vertical trunks in the top half; at the bottom the horsetails, the ferns and the foreground twig make some nice diagonals … Chapeau! --El Grafo (talk) 14:15, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support per El Grafo. It is like the plants were arranged to give a pleasing combination of sizes and textures. -- Colin (talk) 17:32, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

• There is actually a feature that has helped to "arrange" the plants; it's called "a stream". :) The ferns grow in one side of it, obscuring it, and the beeches on the other side. Glints of it are visible in this photo. Water is a great organizer in nature. --cart-Talk 17:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

•  Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 01:27, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support per El. Jee 03:07, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Love that silvery sylvan light in the foreground ... so often one sees that in the woods but it is so difficult to capture. Looks, as I think I've mentioned to you before, not unlike the slope northern-hardwood forests at lower elevations in the Catskills, just with American beech instead of its European cousin. Daniel Case (talk) 05:01, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 18:07, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Shame about the light spots on the leaves, but beautiful composition.--Famberhorst (talk) 18:18, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Pofka (talk) 11:04, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 14 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Daphne Lantier 22:14, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Natural