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Featured picture candidates

Featured picture candidates are images that the community will vote on, to determine whether or not they will be highlighted as some of the finest on Commons. This page lists the candidates to become featured pictures. The picture of the day images are selected from featured pictures.

Old candidates for Featured pictures are listed here. There are also chronological lists of featured pictures: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and current month.

For another overview of our finest pictures, take a look at our annual picture of the year election.

Formal things

Nominating

Guidelines for nominators

Please read the complete guidelines before nominating.

This is a summary of what to look for when submitting and reviewing FP candidates:

  • Licensing – Images licensed with solely "GFDL" or "GFDL and an NC-only license" are not acceptable due the restrictions placed on re-use by these licenses.
  • Resolution – Raster images of lower resolution than 2 million pixels (pixels, not bytes) are typically rejected unless there are strong mitigating reasons. This does not apply to vector graphics (SVGs).
    • Graphics on Commons are not only viewed on conventional computer screens. They may be used in high-resolution print versions, and the images may be cropped to focus on portions of the image. See Commons:Why we need high resolution media for more information.
  • Scans – While not official policy, Help:Scanning provides advice on the preparation of various types of images that may be useful.
  • General quality – pictures being nominated should be of high technical quality.
  • Digital manipulations must not deceive the viewer. Digital manipulation for the purpose of correcting flaws in an image is generally acceptable, provided it is limited, well-done, and not intended to deceive.
    • For photographs, typical acceptable manipulations include cropping, perspective correction, sharpening/blurring, and color/exposure correction. More extensive manipulations, such as removal of distracting background elements, should be clearly described in the image text, by means of the {{Retouched picture}} template. Undescribed or mis-described manipulations which cause the main subject to be misrepresented are never acceptable. For images made from more than one photo, you can use the {{Panorama}} or {{Focus stacked image}} templates.
    • For historic images, acceptable manipulations might include digitally fixing rips, removal of stains, cleanup of dirt, and, for mass-produced artworks such as engravings, removal of flaws inherent to the particular reproduction, such as over-inking. Careful color adjustments may be used to bring out the original work from the signs of ageing, though care should be taken to restore a natural appearance. The original artistic intent should be considered when deciding whether it is appropriate to make a change. Edits to historic material should be documented in detail within the file description, and an unedited version should be uploaded and cross linked for comparison.
  • Value – our main goal is to feature most valuable pictures from all others. Pictures should be in some way special, so please be aware that:
    • almost all sunsets are aesthetically pleasing, and most such pictures are not in essence different from others,
    • night-shots are pretty but normally more details can be shown on pictures taken at daytime,
    • beautiful does not always mean valuable.
Artworks, illustrations, and historical documents

There are many different types of non-photographic media, including engravings, watercolors, paintings, etchings, and various others. Hence, it is difficult to set hard-and-fast guidelines. However, generally speaking, works can be divided into three types: Those that can be scanned, those that must be photographed, and those specifically created to illustrate a subject.

Works that must be photographed include most paintings, sculptures, works too delicate or too unique to allow them to be put on a scanner, and so on. For these, the requirements for photography, below, may be mostly followed; however, it should be noted that photographs which cut off part of the original painting are generally not considered featurable.

Works that may be scanned include most works created by processes that allow for mass distribution − for instance, illustrations published with novels. For these, it is generally accepted that a certain amount of extra manipulation is permissible to remove flaws inherent to one copy of the work, since the particular copy – of which hundreds, or even thousands of copies also exist – is not so important as the work itself.

Works created to serve a purpose include diagrams, scientific illustrations, and demonstrations of contemporary artistic styles. For these, the main requirement is that they serve their purpose well.

Provided the reproduction is of high quality, an artwork generally only needs one of the following four things to be featurable:

  • Notable in its own right: Works by major artists, or works that are otherwise notable, such as the subjects of a controversy.
  • Of high artistic merit: Works which, while not particularly well known, are nonetheless wonderful examples of their particular type or school of art.
  • Of high historic merit: The historical method values very early illustrations of scenes and events over later ones. Hence, a work of poor quality depicting a contemporaneous historical event can be nonetheless important, even if the artistic merit is relatively low. Likewise, scans or photographs of important documents – which may not be at all artistic – nonetheless may be highly valuable if the documents are historically significant. The reason for the image's historical importance should be briefly stated in the nomination, for those reviewers unfamiliar with the subject.
  • Of high illustrative merit: Works that illustrate or help explain notable subjects, for instance, illustrations of books, scientific subjects, or technical processes. The amount of artistic merit required for these will vary by subject, but, for instance, an illustration that makes the working of a complicated piece of machinery very clear need not be notable as a piece of artwork as well, whereas an illustration for a book might well be expected to reach much higher artistic standards.

Digital restorations must also be well documented. An unedited version of the image should be uploaded locally, when possible, and cross-linked from the file description page. Edit notes should be specified in detail, such as "Rotated and cropped. Dirt, scratches, and stains removed. Histogram adjusted and colors balanced."

Photographs

On the technical side, we have focus, exposure, composition, movement control and depth of field.

  • Focus – every important object in the picture should normally be sharp.
  • Exposure refers to the shutter diaphragm combination that renders an image with a tonal curve that ideally is able to represent in acceptable detail shadows and highlights within the image. This is called latitude. Images can be on the low side of the tonal curve (low range), the middle (middle range) or high side (upper range). Lack of shadow detail is not necessarily a negative characteristic. In fact, it can be part of the desired effect. Burned highlights in large areas are a distracting element.
  • Composition refers to the arrangement of the elements within the image. The "Rule of thirds" is one useful guideline. Horizons should almost never be placed in the middle, where they "cut" the image in half. Often, a horizon creating a top or bottom third of the space works better. The main idea is to use space to create a dynamic image.
    • Foreground and background – foreground and background objects may be distracting. You should check that something in front of the subject doesn't hide important elements and that something in background doesn't spoil the composition (for example that the streetlight doesn't "stand" on someone's head).
  • Movement control refers to the manner in which motion is represented in the image. Motion can be frozen or blurred. Neither one is better than the other. It is the intention of representation. Movement is relative within the objects of the image. For example, photographing a race car that appears frozen in relation to the background does not give us a sense of speed or motion, so technique dictates to represent the car in a frozen manner but with a blurred background, thus creating the sense of motion, this is called "panning". On the other hand, representing a basketball player in a high jump frozen in relation to everything else, due to the "unnatural" nature of the pose would be a good photograph.
  • Depth of field (DOF) refers to the area in focus in front of and beyond main subject. Depth of field is chosen according to the specific needs of every picture. Large or small DOF can either way add or subtract to the quality of the image. Low depth of field can be used to bring attention to the main subject, separating it from the general environment. High depth of field can be used to emphasize space. Short focal length lenses (wide angles) yield large DOF, and vice versa, long focal lenses (telephotos) have shallow DOF. Small apertures yield large DOF and conversely, large apertures yield shallow DOF.

On the graphic elements we have shape, volume, color, texture, perspective, balance, proportion, noise, etc.

  • Shape refers to the contour of the main subjects.
  • Volume refers to the three dimensional quality of the object. This is accomplished using side light. Contrary to general belief, front lighting is not the best light. It tends to flatten subject. Best light of day is early morning or late afternoon.
  • Color is important. Oversaturated colors are not good.
  • Texture refers to the quality of the surface of the subject. It is enhanced by side lighting… it is the "feel" to the touch.
  • Perspective refers to the "angle" accompanied by lines that disappear into a vanishing point that may or may not be inside the image.
  • Balance refers to the arrangement of subjects within the image that can either give equal weight or appear to be heavier on one side.
  • Proportion refers to the relation of size of objects in picture. Generally, we tend to represent small objects small in relation to others, but a good technique is to represent small objects large contrary to natural size relationship. For example, a small flower is given preponderance over a large mountain…. This is called inversion of scales.
Not all elements must be present. Some photographs can be judged on individual characteristics, that is, an image can be about color or texture, or color AND texture, etc.
  • Noise refers to unwanted corruption of color brightness and quality and can be caused by underexposure. It is not a desirable quality and can be grounds for opposition.
  • Symbolic meaning or relevance … Opinion wars can begin here … A bad picture of a very difficult subject is better than a good picture of an ordinary subject. A good picture of a difficult subject is an extraordinary photograph.
Images can be culturally biased by the photographer and/or the observer. The meaning of the image should be judged according to the cultural context of the image, not by the cultural context of the observer. An image "speaks" to people, and it has the capacity to evoke emotion such as tenderness, rage, rejection, happiness, sadness, etc. Good photographs are not limited to evoking pleasant sensations …

You will maximise the chances of your nominations succeeding if you read the complete guidelines before nominating.

Video and audio

Please nominate videos, sounds, music, etc. at Commons:Featured media candidates.

Set nominations

If a group of images are thematically connected in a direct and obvious way, they can be nominated together as a set. A set should fall under one of the following types:

  • Faithful digital reproductions of works notable in their own right, which the original author clearly intended to be viewed as a set. Examples: pages in a pamphlet, crops (puzzle pieces) of a prohibitively large scan, a pair of pendant paintings. Not acceptable: Arbitrary selection of sample works by an artist.
  • A sequence of images showing the passage of time. They could depict frames of a moving/changing object or a static object during different times of day or different seasons. Examples: diagrams illustrating a process, steps of a dance, metamorphosis of an insect, maps/drawings/photos of the same subject over the years (frame of view should be more or less the same).
  • A group of images depicting the same subject from different viewpoints, preferably taken under the same lighting conditions when possible. Examples: Exterior and interior of a building, different facades of a building, different interior views, obverse and inverse of a banknote/coin. Not acceptable: A selection of different rooms in a skyscraper, the facade of a church plus an organ, any images of fundamentally different scopes.
  • A group of images which show all possible variations of a particular class of object. Examples: Male and female versions of an animal (preferably in the same setting), all known species of a genus. Not acceptable: A few breeds of cats (unless they share a defining characteristic and represent all possible examples of that).

Simple tutorial for new users

Tutorial: Nominate on COM:FPC
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NOTE: You don't need to worry if you are not sure, other users will try their best to help you.

Adding a new nomination

If you believe that you have found or created an image that could be considered valuable, with appropriate image description and licensing, then do the following.

Step 1: copy the image name into this box, after the text already present in the box, for example, Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Your image filename.jpg. Then click on the "create new nomination" button.

All single files:

For renominations, simply add /2 after the filename. For example, Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Foo.jpg/2

All set nomination pages should begin "Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/", e.g. "Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/My Nomination".


Step 2: follow the instructions on the page that you are taken to, and save that page.

Step 3: manually insert a link to the created page at the top of Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list: Click here, and add the following line to the TOP of the nominations list:

{{Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Your image filename.jpg}}

Galleries and FP categories: Please add a gallery page and section heading from the list at Commons FP galleries. Write the code as Page name#Section heading. For example: Commons:Featured pictures/Sports#Individual sports An image will only appear ONE time in the galleries. After a successful nomination, the image can be placed in several of the Featured pictures categories.

Optional: if you are not the creator of the image, please notify them using {{subst:FPC-notice|Your image filename.jpg}} -- ~~~~.

Note: Do not add an 'Alternative' image when you create a nomination. Selecting the best image is part of the nomination process. Alternatives are for a different crop or post-processing of the original image, or a closely related image from the same photo session (limited to 1 per nomination), if they are suggested by voters.

Voting

Editors whose accounts have at least 10 days and 50 edits can vote. Everybody can vote for their own nominations. Anonymous (IP) votes are not allowed.

You may use the following templates:

  • {{Support}} ( Support),
  • {{Oppose}} ( Oppose),
  • {{Neutral}} ( Neutral),
  • {{Comment}} ( Comment),
  • {{Info}} ( Info),
  • {{Question}} ( Question),
  • {{Request}} ( Request).

You may indicate that the image has no chance of success with the template {{FPX|reason - ~~~~}}, where reason explains why the image is clearly unacceptable as a FP. The template can only be used when there are no support votes other than the one from the nominator.

A well-written review helps participants (photographers, nominators and reviewers) improve their skills by providing insight into the strengths and weaknesses of a picture. Explain your reasoning, especially when opposing a candidate (which has been carefully selected by the author/nominator). English is the most widely understood language on Commons, but any language may be used in your review. A helpful review will often reference one or more of the criteria listed above.

Unhelpful reasons for opposing include:

  • No reason
  • "I don't like it" and other empty assessments
  • "You can do better" and other criticisms of the author/nominator rather than the image

Remember also to put your signature (~~~~).

Over time, featured picture standards change. It may be decided that for some pictures which were formerly "good enough", this is no longer the case. This is for listing an image which you believe no longer deserves to be a featured picture. For these, vote:

Text to use Displays as Meaning
{{Keep}}  Keep It deserves to remain a featured picture.
{{Delist}}  Delist It does not deserve to be a featured picture anymore.

This can also be used for cases in which a previous version of an image was promoted to FP, but a newer version of the image has been made and is believed to be superior to the old version, e.g. a newly edited version of a photo or a new scan of a historical image. In particular, it is not intended for replacing older photos of a particular subject with newer photos of the same subject, or in any other case where the current FP and the proposed replacement are essentially different images. For these nominations, vote:

Text to use Displays as Meaning
{{Keep}}  Keep Do not replace the old image with the new image as a FP.
{{Delistandreplace}}  Delist and replace Replace the current FP with the proposed replacement.

If you believe that some picture no longer meets the criteria for FP, you can nominate it for delisting, copying the image name into this box, after the text already present in the box:


In the new delisting nomination page just created you should include:

  • Information on the origin of the image (creator, uploader);
  • A link to the original FP nomination (it will appear under "Links" on the image description page);
  • Your reasons for nominating the image and your username.

After that, you have to manually insert a link to the created page at the top of Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list.

As a courtesy, leave an informative note on the talk page(s) of the original creator, uploader(s), and nominator with a link to the delisting candidate. {{subst:FPC-notice-removal}} can be used for this purpose.

General rules

  1. The voting period is 9 complete days counted from the nomination. After the end of this period the result will be determined. Votes added on day 10 and after are not counted.
  2. Nominations by anonymous contributors are welcome.
  3. Contributions to discussion by anonymous contributors are welcome.
  4. Only registered contributors whose Commons accounts have at least 10 days and 50 edits can vote. Exception: registered users can always vote in their own nominations no matter the account age and number of edits.
  5. Nominations do not count as votes. Support must be explicitly stated.
  6. Nominators and authors can withdraw their nominated pictures at any time. This is done by adding the following template: {{Withdraw}} ~~~~. Also, remember that if more than one version is nominated, you should explicitly state which version you are withdrawing.
  7. Remember, the goal of the Wikimedia Commons project is to provide a central repository for free images to be used by all Wikimedia projects, including possible future projects. This is not simply a repository for Wikipedia images, so images should not be judged here on their suitability for that project.
  8. Rules of the 5th day based on vote counts on day number 5 (day of nomination + 5):
    1. Pictures are speedy declined if they have fewer than two support votes.
    2. Pictures are speedy promoted if they have 10 support votes or more and no oppose votes. (Note that if it takes more than five days to reach this threshold, the picture can be promoted as soon as it is reached.) This does not apply to nominations containing at least one ‘Alternative’ image – because it is possible that another image can overtake the one in the lead during the last days, such nominations are never closed early.
    3. Once either speedy criterion is reached, the voting period is considered closed, and no more votes may be added.
  9. Pictures tagged {{FPX}} may be removed from the list 24 hours after the tag was applied, provided there are no support votes other than that of the nominator.
  10. Pictures tagged {{FPD}} (FP-Denied) may be removed from the list 24 hours after the tag was applied.
  11. Only two active nominations by the same user (that is, nominations under review and not yet closed) are allowed. The main purpose of this measure is to contribute to a better average quality of nominations, by driving nominators/creators to choose carefully the pictures presented to the forum.

Featuring and delisting rules

A candidate will become a featured picture in compliance with following conditions:

  1. Appropriate license (of course)
  2. At least seven  Support votes (or 7  Delist votes for a delist) at the end of nine days
  3. Ratio of supporting/opposing votes at least 2/1 (a two-thirds majority); same for delist/keep votes
  4. Two different versions of the same picture cannot both be featured, but only the one with higher level of support, as determined by the closer. Whenever the closer is not sure which version has consensus to be featured, they should attempt to contact the voters to clarify their opinions if not clear from the nomination page.
  5. Only two active delisting nominations per user, which is in addition to the limit of two active regular nominations.

The delisting rules are the same as those for FPs, with voting taking place over the same time period. The rule of the 5th day is applied to delisting candidates that have received no votes to delist, other than that of the proposer, by day 5.

The FPCBot handles the vote counting and closing in most cases, current exceptions are candidates containing multiple versions of the image as well as FPXed and withdrawn nominations. Any experienced user may close the requests not handled by the bot. For instructions on how to close nominations, see Commons:Featured picture candidates/What to do after voting is finished. Also note that there is a manual review stage between when the bot has counted the votes and before the nomination is finally closed by the bot; this manual review can be done by any user familiar with the voting rules.

Above all, be polite

Please don't forget that the image you are judging is somebody's work. Avoid using phrases like "it looks terrible" and "I hate it". If you must oppose, please do so with consideration. Also remember that your command of English might not be the same as someone else's. Choose your words with care.

Happy judging… and remember… all rules can be broken.

See also

Table of contents

List may contain works considered Not Safe for Work (nudity).

Nominators are requested, out of courtesy, to include the {{Nsfw}} template with such images. Users may select the gadget in user preferences "Deferred display of images tagged with {{Nsfw}} on COM:FPC" to enable the template's effect of hiding the image until selected.

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File:Devout, Yemen (9849350914).jpg

Voting period ends on 23 May 2025 at 07:19:48 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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People praying inside the historic w:Queen Arwa Mosque in w:Jibla, Yemen

File:Nusrat Faria003.jpg

Voting period ends on 23 May 2025 at 06:14:10 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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Portrait of Nusrat Faria

File:Augsburg.- Town Hall (Goldener Saal) (2).jpg

Voting period ends on 22 May 2025 at 16:24:58 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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Ceiling of the Golden Hall representing the wisdom (Lat: Sapientia), with the motto "PAR ME Reges regnant" (my rule rule) .- City Hall Augsbourg

File:Großer Scheidling südwestlich von Zell am Ebersberg 5.jpg

Voting period ends on 22 May 2025 at 13:57:19 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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Volvopluteus gloiocephalus south of Zell am Ebersberg

File:Crimson-rumped toucanet (Aulacorhynchus haematopygus sexnotatus) Paz de las Aves 2.jpg

Voting period ends on 22 May 2025 at 08:31:04 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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Crimson-rumped toucanet (Aulacorhynchus haematopygus sexnotatus)

File:D-4-71-145-54 Mauritiuskapelle Sassanfahrt 3.jpg

Voting period ends on 22 May 2025 at 04:31:59 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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St. Maurice chapel in Hirschaid

File:Uitrollend blad van een mannetjesvaren (Dryopteris filix-mas) 28-04-2025 (d.j.b.) 02.jpg

Voting period ends on 22 May 2025 at 04:27:37 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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SHORT DESCRIPTION

File:A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat, 1884.jpg

Voting period ends on 21 May 2025 at 18:46:40 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat, 1884.

File:Portrait de femme en tenue traditionnelle de Berbère Algérien.jpg

Voting period ends on 21 May 2025 at 18:31:06 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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Algerian women wearing traditional Berber clothing

File:Eastern wood pewee (12569).jpg

Voting period ends on 21 May 2025 at 16:20:26 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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Eastern wood-pewee

File:Red aspen leaves by Myrstigen 1.jpg

Voting period ends on 21 May 2025 at 12:40:26 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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Autumn-red aspen leaves (Populus tremula) on a branch in contre-jour by Myrstigen track, Brastad, Lysekil Municipality, Sweden.
It's the same here, usually they just turn yellow. The ones shielded in forests can turn these colors. --Cart (talk) 15:38, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Toucan barbet (Semnornis ramphastinus ramphastinus) Paz de las Aves.jpg

Voting period ends on 21 May 2025 at 09:09:10 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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Toucan barbet (Semnornis ramphastinus)
So it is. An amazingly friendly family-run place. Charlesjsharp (talk) 16:59, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Charlesjsharp, I see that you are having some trouble fixing the name of the file. Do you want me to rename it according to Poco's advice and fix the code so your nomination stays intact? I think you remember the bother you've run into before when moving files during a nom. (In case you are wondering: You didn't complete the correction with your move. It's "de" not "le", but I don't want to move the file without your permission.) --Cart (talk) 18:16, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Please. I've been renaming lots of files and clearly made a mess! Charlesjsharp (talk) 20:32, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No problem, I'll fix it for you. Renaming a nom is a little different than renaming normal files. --Cart (talk) 20:40, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Red-tailed boa (Boa constrictor constrictor) Rio Napo.jpg

Voting period ends on 21 May 2025 at 09:15:25 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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Red-tailed boa (Boa constrictor)

 I withdraw my nomination Charlesjsharp (talk) 08:21, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:The Temple among the forest Beneath the Clouds, Weaverville (2025)-L1007132.jpg

Voting period ends on 21 May 2025 at 01:35:38 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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Interior of the oldest Chinese temple in California (Weaverville, Trinity County)

File:1665 Girl with a Pearl Earring.jpg (delist)

Voting period ends on 20 May 2025 at 22:32:50
Info

  •  Info Now superseded by the 108 gigapixel File:Girl with a Pearl Earring - Hirox.jpg (Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:1665 Girl with a Pearl Earring.jpg)
  •  Delist . The proposed replacement (a tile set at full-res) is the highest resolution image on Commons, AFAIK. The current image is about the size of one of the individual tiles. See Template:Tile set/Girl with a Pearl Earring - Hirox/grid -- JayCubby (talk) 22:32, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Keep I appreciate that Commons has always sought to host media in the highest resolution available, in order to provide maximum flexibility for reusers who might want to use our pictures for large prints or high-resolution displays. But I think there does come a point where this gets faintly ridiculous. Does anyone really need a 108,000 megapixel version of Girl with a Pearl Earring, showing details at a far, far finer level than the painter's original brushstrokes? What is that extra information useful for? By delisting the current one and replacing it with these tiles, we're saying that it isn't enough to have a 179 megapixel image (which is still extremely large and frankly already pretty absurd, but which can still be displayed as one file and which the average high-end computer has a decent chance of being able to display at full size). No, we need a 108,000 megapixel one, even though it can only be stored as a series of tiles (which are, even individually, impossible for most computers to display at full size) and thus has considerably less utility to end users than the current FP. Why exactly? Will we delist the 108,000 megapixel tiles when someone scans this painting at 200,000 megapixels? Where does this end? Isn't it just enough to have a good version of a painting at a sensible size that people might actually want to use? Why do I want to view a beautiful artwork at 500 times the magnification the artist intended, what worthwhile experience am I getting from this? Cmao20 (talk) 00:31, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Cmao20,
    • What is that extra information useful for?
      • Why not? We host TIFF files which are ten times larger than JPEGs with little quality difference.
    • and which the average high-end computer has a decent chance of being able to display at full size
      • There's a much lower-resolution version, stitched from the 108 GP, at File:Girl with a Pearl Earring - Hirox.jpg, at 18,920 × 22,112 px. I forgot to mention that. I'll see if I can open it on my midrange computer.
    • Will we delist the 108,000 megapixel tiles when someone scans this painting at 200,000 megapixels?
      • Maybe. Would we delist a 5MP in favor of a 50MP scan? Probably. Why shouldn't the trend continue?
      • Why do I want to view a beautiful artwork at 500 times the magnification the artist intended, what worthwhile experience am I getting from this?
        • You don't have to zoom down to the micron-level. But at a high resolution, the brushstrokes can be analyzed, etc.
    Also, the proposed replacement image's colors seem more natural to me. JayCubby (talk) 01:16, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Snowy morning in Sangla, Himachal Pradesh, India.jpg

Voting period ends on 20 May 2025 at 22:01:32 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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Snowy morning in Sangla, in the Baspa valley of Kinnaur district of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Settlements#India
  •  Info created, uploaded and nominated by UnpetitproleX (Talk) 22:01, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- UnpetitproleX (Talk) 22:01, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Weak support Nice landscape, I love the splashes of colour provided by the houses amidst the snow and the mountains. Not sure the image quality is FP though, there's not a lot of detail at full size. I added a couple of categories, btw. Cmao20 (talk) 00:21, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Sangla is a really beautiful place, and I loved the previous one from it, but here the detail that was just enough in that, doesn't catch up in this. It's also taking in too much and therefore letting the wow-factor slip away. Look at what would happen if you had used just a portion of the image, see note. --Cart (talk) 11:09, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for the review, (and also re:Cmao20 above) unfortunately I can't do much about the detail--of all the pictures I took that morning, this shows the largest portion of the town of Sangla, but was taken from some distance and slight elevation from the actual town. I'm unable to see your note for some reason, but if it's regarding a crop, the original had more orchards at the bottom, under shadow like the bottom right, which I thought best to crop without having to crop out the building in the bottom left corner. Then also cropped some sky at the top because a panorama made sense to me at that instance. UnpetitproleX (Talk) 00:28, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    It's strange that the note keeps disappearing, I've tried to add it twice. Hmm ... Anyway, it was not for a crop, the detail is not good enough for that, only generally indicating the top left part that I think would have been better to focus on. The oppose for this lovely place pains me, but the quality just isn't there, sorry. --Cart (talk) 01:02, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Grünes Heupferd auf Motorhaube.jpg

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Great green bush-cricket on a red engine bonnet

File:Hochries, Alpes del Chiemgau, Alemania, 2024-10-19, DD 34-36 HDR.jpg

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File:Allium (cultivars) Wassertropfen stacked-20250503-RM-151823.jpg

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Blossom of an ornamental leek with water droplets. Focus stack of 6 shots. Photographed in a garden in Bamberg.

File:Новоселско Езеро.jpg

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An aerial view of Novo Selo Lake
Please Kiril, I don't know how many times I've had to add basic categories, descriptions and full gallery info to your nominations. You are a senior participant here at FPC, so more is expected of you. When you create a nomination, please check that all the things mentioned in the FPC rules are met. Thank you, --Cart (talk) 20:17, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:2024-07-07 Motorsport, DTM Classic, Norisring Nürnberg 2024 STP 0323.jpg

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motor sport, DTM Classic, Norisring Nürnberg 2024: Stefan Mücke / Peter Mücke (Mercedes-Benz C-Klasse DTM); panning shot

File:CH-47 Chinook - RIAT 2015 (20820630144).jpg

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CH-47 Chinook at RIAT 2015
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  •  Info created by Airwolfhound on Flickr – uploaded by Helmy oved – nominated by JayCubby -- JayCubby (talk) 23:45, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support as nom. I see no major flaws with the image. The detail is crisp, the motion blur is nice, and the resolution is decent enough. The hair of CA is my only criticism. -- JayCubby (talk) 23:45, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose This photo would be perfect for me if the rotors were shown in full. In this cut unfortunately not, sorry. --Stepro (talk) 00:46, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Stepro, it appears rather hard to keep the composition nice when the rotors are in frame. See File:Chinook - RIAT 2016 (28245423846).jpg JayCubby (talk) 01:34, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose FPs need a bit more than just "no major flaws", they also need good composition and that elusive "wow"-factor. While this is a good photo technically, it lacks really good composition, it is either too closely cropped or not close enough to highlight a section of the heli in a pleasing way, the light is dull and buildings in the background interfere with the main subject. --Cart (talk) 13:33, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Weak support I enjoy how it's zoomed in enough so you can see the disturbed air behind it, the rivets, and the guy leaning out the window. it's a striking juxtaposition, seeing him standing right under the rotor blades, tilted in midair, with only inches of metal under his feet. The tilted composition adds drama. I only wish there wasn't a building in the background. Henrysz (talk) 17:21, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I really wanted to like this image. It is a cool shot, but aside from the cropping of the rotors brought up by other reviewers, it suffers from some problems related to the shutter speed of 1/100 and f/10 respectively. There is an influence of diffraction in the image. I saw someone refer to CA, but I think its diffraction, personally. The image would have been sharper if shot at a faster shutter too. Tracking the subject, which is large, at a focal length of nearly 300, with a small aperture and low shutter speed, yielded an unsettling feeling to the image when viewed at 100%.

File:Golden orb-weavers (Nephila pilipes) female and male Double Haven.jpg

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Golden orb-weavers
Yes, sometimes she does, but I believe not that often... Charlesjsharp (talk) 17:22, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Did you all notice the two tiny spiderlings on the web? Charlesjsharp (talk) 08:44, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Charlesjsharp: haha yes I did! And also the flies stuck in the web. Looking a second time, I think there's even a second male spider on the left, but blurred/out of focus. UnpetitproleX (Talk) 22:55, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, there's definitely three little spiderlings! But the third one is out of the range of focus on the far left of the frame, as you say. Cmao20 (talk) 00:44, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Ringeltaube auf Norderney 02.jpg

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Common wood pigeon on Norderney, Germany

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