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•  Info created by Sergeant Paul Shaw - uploaded by Fæ -- Fæ (talk) 12:20, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
•  Support -- Fæ (talk) 12:20, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
•  Support Excellent composition and mood mitigates rather poor tecnical quality. It is also a difficult shot though, and I think it is very good at showing the snowy conditions in Camp Bastion. -- Slaunger (talk) 20:02, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
•  Support per Slaunger --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 09:41, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
•  Support Very good. --XRay ^talk 12:12, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
•  Oppose Far much too dark, almost a half of the picture is just black. Is the man a soldier ? Look, dear friends photographers, the man is carrying... a tripod ! Sorry, this picture does not say anything to me. And of course, the rather poor technical quality does not help...--Jebulon (talk) 22:34, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
  •  Comment @Jebulon: : According to the metadata linked to from the file page the person is an "army photographer", which for me indicates that he is not a civilian. If you are an army photographer, you are as far as I can understand still a soldier first and (at least in the U.S. Army) "you may be expected to join the fight, fire your rifle and still be expected to take photos of the action". -- Slaunger (talk) 22:43, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
  •  Comment The equivalent role in the UK army does not state explicitly that you are considered a soldier, but they are as far as I can understand members of the Royal Logistics Corps. For me, that means they are 'soldiers' and they have the ranks of Corporal, Sergeant (depicted person) and Staff Sergeant. -- Slaunger (talk) 22:56, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
  • Yes of course, but I find this a bit disappointing... And obviously his tripod is not as good as mine...--Jebulon (talk) 11:05, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
    • @Jebulon: : You mean it is dissapointing that the army photographer is carrying a tripod and not a rifle? Anyway, knowing the weight of your tripod, which share some of the characteristics of this one, I doubt an army photographer would survive long in a combat situation if you swapped the gear. -- Slaunger (talk) 14:42, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
•  Oppose Most of it's in the dark and the composition lacks "wow". --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 02:06, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
•  Support  Oppose per P e z i and commons policy. -- Ram-Man 18:56, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
•  Support. Yesterday's news horrified me. If this is the situation, we need military deployment in schools. Jee 10:18, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
•  Support --El Grafo (talk) 12:02, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
•  Oppose to many dark areas. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 21:57, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
•  Oppose too dark, no wow, taken with 36MP equipment and downsampled to 6MP. --P e z i (talk) 09:45, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
•  Info I wrote to the photographer (Paul Shaw) to enquire about the depicted person. He has given me a reply and asked me to publish parts of his mail here.
  • (Paul Shaw, the photographer): The figure in the Photo is a Sergeant and part of the combat camera team. We serve bout an average of 10 years as soldiers before becoming photographers and we are trained the same as any other soldier. Our day to day job is photography for the Army and MoD however when on exercise and operations we carry the same kit as every other soldier and our camera kit on top.
• -- Slaunger (talk) 21:10, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

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Result: 6 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /-- ChristianFerrer 14:23, 21 December 2014 (UTC))