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File:Okayama Castle, November 2016 -02.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured_pictures/Places/Architecture/Castles_and_fortifications#Japan
•  Info Okayama Castle is a Japanese castle in the city of Okayama. All by me, --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:26, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:26, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose The bushes hide too much of the bottom of the castle. lNeverCry 08:32, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

• I kind of anticipated that argument... fair enough though. INeverCry et al, would you prefer either this alternative or that one? Thanks! --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 08:47, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

•  Support I find the texture and colors of the different foliage enchanting as they "encase" the castle. Perhaps a more appropriate name for the photo would be something like "Trees in front of Okayama Castle". It is a beautiful composition, the castle in its full glory can be seen in other photos. cart-Talk 12:40, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks, my thoughts exactly. Well, I guess I should give this nomination another chance to see what others think. --Martin Falbisoner (talk)

•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 16:14, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose bizarre composition. Charles (talk) 18:30, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

• hmm, ok. And the aforementioned alternatives? Less bizarre? --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 19:02, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

• Bizarre: the leaves at the top and the building partially obscured :) (I don't fancy the alternatives) Charles (talk) 20:02, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

• ...which are not "alternatives", but very different pictures...--Jebulon (talk) 20:46, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

• Yes, Jebulon, I wouldn't nominate them as alternatives to this pic ;-) . --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 10:11, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

•  Oppose - I actually like the composition to a point and I'm not sure how much I mind the beautiful evergreen bushes being in front of the castle, although maybe they block too much of it. I think what causes me to oppose a feature may be more the degree of unsharpness of the foliage in the foreground and how dark it is (and maybe how much of it there is) than anything else. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:43, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Info I would support a version that had less of the red maple tree and was better cropped. I like the photo not the crop.. --WPPilot (talk) 06:45, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I like the unorthodox but effective use of the leaves as an upper framing device. I am also not bothered by the unsharpness on the middle leaves—the real subject is the building, and it's sharp. It gives the whole thing a very painterly quality. Daniel Case (talk) 07:23, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Wow --LivioAndronico ^(talk) 09:52, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I can't blame others; I too didn't impressed by the thumbnail. But sharpness and details of main subject is spectacular as in every architectural views by Martin! Jee 16:35, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 23:02, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Joalpe (talk) 11:53, 11 December 2016 (UTC) weird colors --building is very pale.
•  Support --Milseburg (talk) 12:14, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Kruusamägi (talk) 16:46, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 18:27, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 10 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Jee 16:13, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Architecture/Castles_and_fortifications#Japan