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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Plants#Family : Cupressaceae
•  Info Final result of my little juniper project. Many thanks for those who encouraged me with their advise. After several attempts both outdoors and indoors, I took the middle way and brought my indoors equipment (sturdy tripod + soft reflector screen + better camera) outdoors to a juniper growing on level ground and the sun for quality light. I used my jacket to get a more neutral background than the one provided by this juniper grove. The jacket still had needles in it when I put it on again... I noticed. All by me, -- cart-Talk 10:16, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- cart-Talk 10:16, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - Pretty. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:35, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 21:00, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 23:24, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:47, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Jee 03:36, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Mile (talk) 16:32, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Neutral Very good quality, but I'm not fond of artificial background. --Ivar (talk) 16:55, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

• The background is not digitally added, it's my jacket, otherwise part the background would be a rusty red/green oil drum. cart-Talk 19:10, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Support --Ralf Roleček 18:20, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Solid support Great to see this come to its fruition (ahem). Ideally all the needle points would be sharp, but tradeoffs are tradeoffs. Daniel Case (talk) 18:51, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks Daniel, believe me I tried to get them all sharp, but since the twig branches off in so many directions I think that would require a studio shot with focus stacking (which I don't know, yet) and photo lamps (which I don't have, yet). Maybe this will be the next step in my learning curve. :-) cart-Talk 19:10, 19 September 2016 (UTC)::

OK, I was thinking about how it might look stacked, but now I understand. When you get there, give it another try. Daniel Case (talk) 19:29, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

(My thought was "Sharp needle points - Ow!!) -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:47, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Support High encyclopedic value. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 03:38, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support − Meiræ 20:52, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Johann Jaritz (talk) 04:47, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 12 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /INeverCry 22:58, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Plants#Family : Cupressaceae