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•  Info created by Cpl Daniel Wiepen - uploaded by Fae - nominated by Chase me ladies -- Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 00:30, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Support -- Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 00:30, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Recruiting-poster perfect! Daniel Case (talk) 01:27, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:03, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Support -- KTC (talk) 09:05, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Although I don't like guns and the occupation in afghanistan, the picture is very beautiful --LivioAndronico talk 09:28, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Support -- Pofka (talk) 10:00, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose This is some kind of an advertising image and has nothing to do with reality. The depicted scene is completely designed and incompatible with military behaviour. --Uoaei1 (talk) 15:22, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
  • I disagree with your comment that it is at odds with military behaviour, and I think others who have been in the military would agree with me. It looks like it's been taken just outside a military base - probably Camp Bastion - and that the soldier is using the sight on his rifle to scan the horizon during a pause in the patrol. You can see that he is kneeling by the razor wire & grass outside a base. The metadata shows that it was taken just after sunset in Afghanistan. There the possibility that the photographer has taken time to set up the shot and asked the soldiers to stay where they are, but that's unlikely, and in any case that is not a reason to vote against it - it is a reason to vote for it, as it was clearly taken by a professional photographer out in the field. I also do not believe it is advertising any more than a 'good photo' of anything can be taken as advertising. It would be nonsense to suggest that we should only accept blurry or bloody photographs of warzones. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 19:45, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

* Neutral the photo is not localized. Is actually taken in Afghanistan? if not it's an advertising--PIERRE ANDRE LECLERCQ (talk) 16:00, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

• • Yes, it has been: see the caption: "Soldiers of C Company 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment are silhouetted against the setting sun during operations in Afghanistan in June 2014." If you search for the author's name you will see that he was based in Afghanistan for much of that year and took many other photographs which could only have been taken there. The metadata also matches the time of sunset in Afghanistan during 11 June 2014. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 19:45, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
    •  Support.-  Thank you. for this précision --PIERRE ANDRE LECLERCQ (talk) 11:21, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per Uoaei1. No wow. --P e z i (talk) 21:27, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose --Alchemist-hp (talk) 21:37, 2 March 2015 (UTC), this one was and is much better: , our POTY 2014 candidate at place 11.
•  Support. Regardless of any opinions on the propaganda of millitary images, this one is undeniably well taken. Diliff (talk) 22:07, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose as per others above. Yann (talk) 09:21, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose per others. @Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry: I was in the military and I was in Afghanistan, privately. Just because you asked..--Hubertl (talk) 10:45, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
• weak  Support per Diliff, though I'm not overly fond of the (probably intended & possibly even artificially introduced) vignetting at smaller sizes. --El Grafo (talk) 15:57, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose Pinhole effect ? Its too much for vignetting. --Mile (talk) 18:15, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Neutral I support if the vignetting effect is removed. 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 22:21, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 01:56, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose Artificial vignetting for dramatic effect. — Julian H.^✈(talk/files) 18:21, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Strong support -- David C. S. 22:01, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose some graphic interest but not enough outstanding -- Christian Ferrer 11:30, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose as Christian --LC-de (talk) 13:17, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

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Result: 11 support, 9 oppose, 1 neutral → not featured. /Yann (talk) 08:32, 13 March 2015 (UTC)