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- Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
- Info created and by Godot13 - nominated by Christian Ferrer -- Christian Ferrer (talk) 10:20, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support -- Christian Ferrer (talk) 10:20, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 10:25, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support wow! --Alchemist-hp (talk) 10:35, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support Ok. --cart-Talk 11:12, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support Joalpe (talk) 11:46, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support Jee 11:51, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support --Milseburg (talk) 12:10, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
- Comment - Definitely a good photo of the stadium, but the foreground is ugly and much of the rest of the picture is to varying degrees unsharp. Of course the unsharpness is understandable as due to smog or fog and distance, but I'm definitely not feeling the wow some of you are feeling. This is certainly a valuable document of a stadium under construction, but I'm not completely convinced it should be more than a Valued Image and Quality Image for these reasons. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 13:22, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support May be improvable with more contrast. --XRay talk 13:34, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support --Code (talk) 15:30, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support --Llez (talk) 15:48, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 17:02, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support --Cayambe (talk) 19:59, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support lNeverCry 21:04, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support Thanks for the nomination! -- Godot13 (talk) 00:15, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support for some of the same reasons Ikan mentions in his comment. Ordinarily I'd be saying the image is too busy and crowded but ... something just works here. In trying to figure out why, I start with the centrality of the stadium. It may be on an island, but it shows a divide between a more industrial area at the south and high-rise residential at the top. Beyond we see the endless swamps that made St. Pete so difficult and (for a lot of the serfs involved) downright deadly to build, a landscape I still remember from my only visit to the city years ago, my first view of Russia after several years of studying the language as the plane from what was then still East Berlin descended.
And the sky? One would like clear, unbroken blue, or little fluffy clouds, of course, but this is St. Petersburg and this is what you sometimes get. And the gray and neutral tones in the clouds actually work well with the stadium and the water.
So, this is actually a very environmental portrait of this stadium. It isn't just any stadium this way; it is a stadium that one can only find in that particular place, that is claiming that place as its own. Daniel Case (talk) 18:08, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 03:09, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support --Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 05:57, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support --Famberhorst (talk) 16:38, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
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