Springe zu den aktuellen Kandidaten

Dies sind die Kandidaten für die exzellenten Bilder. Beachte, dass es sich hierbei nicht um das Bild des Tages handelt.

Bitte lies alle Leitsätze vor der Nominierung.

Dies ist eine Zusammenfassung von Kriterien, auf die du bei der Einreichung und Bewertung von Exzellenz-Kandidaten achten solltest:

• Auflösung – Fotografien mit einer Auflösung unter 2 Millionen Pixel werden in der Regel abgelehnt, außer unter „stark mildernden Umständen“. Beachte, dass ein 1600 x 1200 großes Foto 1,92 Megapixel hat und damit weniger als 2 Millionen.

Grafiken auf Commons können auch in anderen Weisen als zur Anzeige auf einen herkömmlichen Computerbildschirm verwendet werden. Sie können auch als Ausdruck oder zur Anzeige auf hochauflösenden Bildschirmen verwendet werden. Man kann nicht vorhersagen, welche Geräte in Zukunft Anwendung finden, deshalb ist es wichtig, dass die nominierten Bilder die höchstmögliche Auflösung haben.

• Eingescannte Bilder – solange es keine offizielle Richtlinie gibt, findet man unter Help:Scannen für verschiedene Typen von Bildern Hinweise für die Vorbereitung, die hilfreich sein können.

• Fokus – jedes wichtige Objekt im Bild sollte normalerweise scharf sein.

• Vordergrund und Hintergrund – Objekte im Vorder- und Hintergrund können stören. Kontrolliere, ob etwas vor dem Motiv des Bildes wichtige Elemente verdeckt. Auch soll nichts im Hintergrund die Komposition verderben, zum Beispiel eine Straßenlampe, die über dem Kopf einer abgebildeten Person „steht“.

• Allgemeine Qualität – nominierte Bilder sollten von hoher technischer Qualität sein.

• Digitale Manipulationen betrügen nicht in jedem Fall den Betrachter. Digitale Nachbearbeitungen, um Fehler von Fotografien zu korrigieren, sind allgemein akzeptiert, vorausgesetzt, sie sind begrenzt und gut gemacht, ohne dabei betrügen zu wollen. Akzeptiert werden normalerweise Beschneiden, perspektivische Korrekturen, Schärfen und Verwischen sowie Farb- und Belichtungskorrekturen. Umfangreichere Korrekturen wie das Entfernen von störenden Hintergrundobjekten sollten in der Bildbeschreibung mit Hilfe der Vorlage {{Retouched picture}} klar beschrieben werden. Nicht oder falsch beschriebenen Manipulationen, die dazu führen, dass das Hauptmotiv falsch dargestellt wird, sind unter keinen Umständen akzeptabel.

• Wert – unser Hauptziel ist das Hervorheben der wertvollsten Bilder von allen anderen. Bilder sollten irgendwie etwas Besonderes sein. Darum sei dir bewusst, dass:
  • nahezu jeder Sonnenuntergang ästhetisch ansprechend ist und die meisten keinen wesentlichen Unterschied aufweisen zu anderen,
  • Nachtaufnahmen hübsch sind, aber dass man normalerweise mit Aufnahmen bei Tag mehr Details zeigen kann,
  • schön nicht immer wertvoll bedeuten muss.

Auf der fachlichen Seite gibt es die Belichtung, die Komposition, die Bewegungskontrolle und die Fokustiefe zu beachten.

• Belichtung bezieht sich auf die Verschluss-Blende-Kombination, die ein Bild mit einer Tonkurve wiedergibt. Idealerweise bildet diese Tonkurve in akzeptabler Genauigkeit Schatten- und Spitzlichtbereiche im Bild ab. Dies nennt man „Belichtungsspielraum“. Bilder können im niedrigen Teil der Tonkurve (unterer Bereich), im mittleren (mittlerer Bereich) oder hohen Teil (oberer Bereich) liegen. Digitale Kameras (oder Bilder) haben einen engeren Belichtungsspielraum als Fotofilme. Fehlende Genauigkeit im Schattenbereich ist nicht unbedingt ein Nachteil. Tatsächlich kann dies ein gewünschter Effekt sein. Eingebrannte Spitzenlichter sind dagegen ein störendes Element.

• Komposition bezieht sich auf die Anordnung der Elemente im Bild selbst. Die „Drittel-Regel“ ist ein guter Grundsatz für die Komposition und ein Erbe der Gemäldemalerei. Die Idee ist, das Bild mit jeweils zwei horizontalen und zwei vertikalen Linien zu teilen. Dadurch wird das Bild in horizontale und vertikale Drittel geteilt. Das Motiv im Zentrum des Bildes zu platzieren, ist oft weniger interessant, als es auf einem der vier Schnittpunkte der horizontalen und vertikalen Schnittlinien zu platzieren. Der Horizont sollte eigentlich niemals in der Mitte des Bildes liegen, wo er das Bild in zwei Hälften „teilt“. Die obere oder untere horizontale Linie ist oft eine gute Wahl. Der Hauptgedanke ist, den Raum zu nutzen, um ein dynamisches Bild zu schaffen.

• Bewegungskontrolle bezieht sich auf die Weise, wie die Bewegung im Bild abgebildet wird. Die Bewegung kann stillstehend oder verschwommen sein. Weder das eine noch das andere ist besser; es kommt auf den Zweck der Aufnahme an. Bewegung ist relativ innerhalb der Objekte des Bildes. Zum Beispiel vermittelt uns das Fotografieren eines relativ zum Hintergrund stillstehenden Rennwagens kein Gefühl für das Tempo oder die Bewegung. Also zwingt uns die Fototechnik, das Motiv stillstehend vor verschwommenem Hintergrund abzubilden, wodurch ein Gefühl für die Bewegung entsteht. Dies nennt man „Schwenken“. Andererseits kann eine Aufnahme eines im Vergleich zur Umgebung stillstehenden Basketballspielers während eines hohen Sprunges das „Unnatürliche“ der Natur dieser Pose sichtbar machen.

• Fokustiefe (DOF – Depth Of Field) bezieht sich auf den Fokusbereich vor und hinter dem Hauptmotiv. Die Fokustiefe wird abhängig von den spezifischen Erfordernissen jedes Bildes gewählt. Große oder kleine Fokustiefe kann auf die eine oder andere Weise die Qualität der Aufnahme vergrößern oder schmälern. Geringe Fokustiefe kann die Aufmerksamkeit auf das Hauptmotiv des Bildes lenken, das Hauptmotiv erscheint dadurch von seiner Umgebung gelöst. Hohe Fokustiefe bringt Abstände zwischen Motiven zur Geltung. Objektive mit kurzer Brennweite (Weitwinkel) ergeben eine hohe Fokustiefe, umgekehrt haben Objektive mit langer Brennweite (Teleobjektive) eine flache Fokustiefe. Kleine Blendenöffnungen bringen große Fokustiefe, und umgekehrt große Blendenöffnungen bringen flache Fokustiefen.

Bei den grafischen Elementen gibt es Form, Volumen, Farbe, Struktur, Perspektive, Balance, Proportion, usw.

• Form bezieht sich auf den Umriss des Hauptmotivs.

• Volumen bezieht sich die dreidimensionale Qualität des Motivs. Diese wird durch Seitenlicht herausgebildet. Im Gegenteil zum allgemeinen Glauben ist Frontbeleuchtung nicht die beste Wahl. Frontbeleuchtung lässt das Motiv abflachen. Das beste Tageslicht hat man am frühen Morgen oder nachmittags.

• Farbe ist wichtig. Übersättigte Farben sind nicht gut.

• Struktur bezieht sich auf die Oberflächenqualität des Motivs. Diese wird durch Seitenbeleuchtung verbessert.

• Perspektive bezieht sich auf den „Grad“ zusammen mit Linien, die in einen Fluchtpunkt innerhalb oder außerhalb des Bildes enden.

• Balance bezieht sich auf die Anordnung der Motive innerhalb des Bildes, die entweder das scheinbar gleiche Gewicht haben oder schwerer auf einer Seite erscheinen.

• Proportion bezieht sich auf die Größenunterschiede der Objekte im Bild. Normalerweise tendieren wir dazu, kleine Gegenstände klein im Vergleich zu anderen darzustellen. Eine gute Methode kann aber sein, kleine Objekte groß im Gegensatz zu wirklichen Größenverhältnissen abzubilden. Zum Beispiel: Eine kleine Blume überwiegt gegenüber einem großen Berg. Dies nennt man Maßstabsinversion.

Nicht alle Elemente müssen berücksichtigt werden. Einige Fotografien können anhand individueller Eigenschaften beurteilt werden. Für ein Bild kann die Farbe oder die Struktur wichtig sein, oder Farbe und Strukur, usw.

• Symbolische Aussage oder Relevanz…. Der Meinungskrieg kann hier beginnen…. Ein schlechtes Bild von einem sehr schwierigen Motiv ist ein besseres Bild als ein gutes Bild von einem gewöhnlichen Motiv. Ein gutes Bild von einem schwierigen Motiv ist ein außergewöhnliches Foto.

Bilder können kulturell beeinflusst sein durch den Fotografen und/oder den Betrachter. Die Bedeutung des Bildes sollte vor dem kulturellen Hintergrund des Bildes beurteilt werden, nicht durch den kulturellen Hintergrund des Betrachters. Ein Bild „spricht“ zu Menschen und hat die Möglichkeit, Emotionen auszulösen, wie zum Beispiel Zärtlichkeit, Zorn, Ablehnung, Heiterkeit, Traurigkeit usw. Gute Fotografen sind nicht darauf beschränkt, gefällige Emotionen zu provozieren.

Um die Chancen für einen Erfolg deiner Nominierung zu erhöhen, lies vor der Nominierung alle Leitsätze.

Wenn du glaubst, ein Bild mit passender Bildbeschreibung und Lizenz gefunden oder geschaffen zu haben, das als wertvoll erachtet werden könnte, folge der anschließenden Anleitung.

Schritt 1: Kopiere den Bildnamen in dieses Textfeld (einschließlich des Zusatzes Image:), hinter den schon im Feld stehenden Text, zum Beispiel „Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:DEIN-BILD-DATEINAME.JPG“. Danach klicke auf die Schaltfäche mit der Aufschrift „neue Nominierung aufstellen“.

Schritt 2: Folge den Anweisungen der geöffneten Seite, und sichere sie.

Schritt 3: Füge manuell einen Link zu der erstellten Seite oben auf der Seite mit der Kandidatenliste ein: Hier klicken, und füge folgende Zeile OBEN bei der Nominierungslist ein:

{{Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:DEIN-BILD-DATEINAME.JPG}}

Du kannst folgende Vorlagen benutzen:

• {{Support}} ( Support) (Stimme zur Unterstützung des Exzellenz-Status),
• {{Oppose}} ( Oppose) (Stimme gegen den Exzellenz-Status),
• {{Neutral}} ( Neutral) (neutrale Meinung, keine Stimme),
• {{Comment}} ( Comment) (es folgt ein Kommentar, keine Stimme),
• {{Info}} ( Info) (es folgen Informationen, keine Stimme),
• {{Question}} ( Question) (es folgt eine Frage, keine Stimme)

Du kannst angeben, dass das Bild keine Chance für eine erfogreiche Kandidatur hat. Benutze die Vorlage {{FPX|reason}}, wobei reason angibt, warum das nominierte Bild klar unakzeptabel für die exzellenten Bilder ist.

Weitere Vorlagen gibt es hier.

Bitte füge ein paar Worte an, warum dir das Bild gefällt oder nicht gefällt, insbesondere wenn du dagegen stimmst. Bitte denke auch daran, zu unterschreiben (~~~~). Anonyme Stimmen sind nicht zugelassen.

Mit der Zeit ändern sich die Standards für die Exzellenten Bilder. Es kann entschieden werden, dass Bilder, die vorher „gut genug“ für die Exzellenten waren, es nicht mehr sind. Dies ist zum Aufstellen eines Bildes, welches deiner Meinung nach es nicht mehr verdient, exzellent zu sein. Dazu wähle mit

• {{Keep}}  Keep (das Bild verdient es immer noch, als exzellent zu gelten) oder mit
• {{Delist}}  Delist (das Bild verdient es nicht mehr, als exzellent zu gelten).

Wenn du denkst, dass ein Bild nicht mehr den Exzellenz-Kriterien entspricht, kannst du es für die Abwahl nominieren, indem du den Bildnamen in dieses Textfeld (einschließlich des Zusatzes Image:) hinter den bereits stehenden Text im Feld kopierst:

In der eben erstellten neuen Seite für die Nomination des Abwahlkandidaten solltest du einfügen:

• Informationen über den Ursprung des Bildes (Ersteller, Uploader),
• Einen Link zur originalen Exzellenz-Kandidatur-Seite (es erscheint unter „Links“ auf der Beschreibungsseite),
• Deine Begründung für die Nominierung und dein Benutzername.

Danach musst du einen Link zu der erstellten Seite oben auf der Seite mit der Liste der Abwahlkandidaten manuell einfügen.

1. Nach dem Ende des Abstimmungs-Zeitraumes wird das Ergebnis am Tag 10 nach der Nominierung festgestellt (im Zeitplan weiter unten gezeigt). Also dauert der Abstimmungs-Zeitraum 9 Tage, plus die Stunden bis zum Ende von Tag 9. Stimmen, die an Tag 10 oder danach abgeben wurden, werden nicht gezählt.
2. Nominierungen von anonymen Mitwirkenden sind erwünscht.
3. Mitwirken bei Diskussionen von anonymen Mitwirkenden sind erwünscht.
4. Nur Nutzer mit einem commons-account, der mindestens 10 Tage alt ist und 50 Beiträge hat, können wählen. Ausnahme: Die eigene Nominierung kann gewählt werden, unabhängig von Alter und Beiträge.
5. Die Nominierung zählt nicht als Stimme. Unterstützung muss explizit angegeben werden.
6. Nominierungen können vom Einsteller jederzeit zurückgezogen werden. Dies geschieht einfach durch das Schreiben von „I withdraw my nomination“ (eng. Ich ziehe meine Nominierung zurück)
   oder durch Hinzufügen von {{withdraw}} ~~~~.
7. Denke daran, das Ziel von Wikimedia Commons ist es, einen zentralen Speicher für freie Bilder, genutzt von allen Wikimedia-Projekten, bereitzustellen, einschließlich für mögliche zukünftige Projekte. Dies ist nicht einfach ein Speicher für Wikipedia-Bilder, deshalb sollten hier die Bilder nicht danach beurteilt werden, ob sie zu diesem Projekt passen.
8. Bilder können vorzeitig am Tag 5 (fünfter Tag nach der Nominierung) von der Abstimmungsliste genommen werden („Regel des 5. Tages“):
   1. Wenn sie keine Unterstützung erhalten, die Einsteller nicht mitgezählt.
   2. Wenn sie 10 oder mehr Pro und kein Kontra erhalten haben.
9. Bilder, welche durch die Vorlage {{FPX}} markiert wurden, können 48 Stunden, nachdem die Vorlage gesetzt wurde, von der Liste entfernt werden, vorausgesetzt, das Bild hat außer von den Einstellern keine positiven Stimmen (Unterstützung) erhalten.
10. Bilder, welche durch die Vorlage {{FPD}} (FP denied) markiert wurden, können 48 Stunden, nachdem die Vorlage gesetzt wurde, von der Liste entfernt werden.
11. Es dürfen von einem Benutzer maximal 2 Nominierungen gleichzeitig platziert werden.

Ein Kandidat wird in die Galerie der exzellenten Bilder aufgenommen, wenn folgende Bedingungen erfüllt sind:

1. Passende Lizenz (selbstverständlich)
2. Mindestens 7 positive Stimmen (Pro-Stimmen)
3. Das Verhältnis von unterstützenden zu ablehnenden Stimmen ist mindestens 2/1 (eine Zwei-Drittel-Mehrheit)
4. Zwei verschiedene Versionen desselben Bildes können nicht beide exzellent werden, sondern nur das mit der höheren Zahl an Stimmen.

Die Abwahl-Regeln sind dieselben wie zur Wahl der exzellenten Bilder bei gleichbleibenden Abstimmungs-Zeitraum. Die Regel des 5. Tages gilt für Abwahlkandidaten, die keine Stimme für die Aberkennung des Exzellenz-Status' bis zum Tag 5 erhalten haben, außer die des Antragstellers.

Ein erfahrener Nutzer kann die Anfrage beenden. Wie man eine Anfrage beendet, siehe unter Commons:Kandidaten für exzellente Bilder/Was tun, wenn der Abstimmungszeitraum zu Ende ist.

Bitte bedenke, dass das Bild, das du beurteilst, das wohlüberlegte Werk von jemandem ist. Vermeide Phrasen wie „it looks terrible“ (eng. sieht schrecklich aus) oder „I hate it“ (eng. Ich hasse es). Wenn du dagegen Stellung nehmen musst, tu dies bitte mit Rücksichtnahme. Bedenke außerdem, dass deine Englischkenntnisse nicht die gleichen sein müssen wie die eines anderen. Wähle deine Worte sorgfältig.

Viel Spaß beim Bewerten …, und denke daran: Alle Regeln können gebrochen werden.

• Zum Bearbeiten der Liste mit den Nominierungen klicke auf: Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list
• Eine chronologische Liste ist unter Commons:Featured pictures/chronological zu finden.
• Ein Archiv vergangener Nominierungen liegt unter Commons:Featured picture candidates/Log.
• Eine Anleitung, wie man Nominierungen beendet, findet sich unter Commons:Kandidaten für exzellente Bilder/Was tun, wenn der Abstimmungszeitraum zu Ende ist.

• Kandidaten für Qualitätsbilder
• Kritiken von Fotografien

Seite erneut laden für neue Nominierungen: purge this page's cache

Voting period ends on 21 May 2025 at 12:40:26 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Plants#Family : Salicaceae
•  Info Autumn-red aspen leaves (Populus tremula) in contre-jour by Myrstigen track, Brastad, Sweden. All by me, -- Cart (talk) 12:40, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support -- Cart (talk) 12:40, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support This one's all about the light Cmao20 (talk) 13:25, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds#Family : Semnornithidae (Toucan barbet and Prong-billed barbet)
•  Info No FPs of this small bird family. All by Charlesjsharp -- Charlesjsharp (talk) 09:09, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support -- Charlesjsharp (talk) 09:09, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Harlock81 (talk) 10:36, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Cart (talk) 10:57, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Lovely Cmao20 (talk) 13:24, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Reptiles
•  Info Unusually, the boa constrictor is known by its scientific name. No FPs of this species. All by Charlesjsharp -- Charlesjsharp (talk) 09:15, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support -- Charlesjsharp (talk) 09:15, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose It's a great knot of snake and I like how the head is positioned, but the background light is too glary for me, sorry. (or, you can use the dull glare and make it into a brilliant light instead.) --Cart (talk) 10:59, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support FP to me because of the composition and high quality, but I do prefer Cart's edit. Cmao20 (talk) 13:23, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured_pictures/Places/Interiors/Religious_buildings#United_States
•  Info created by Frank Schulenburg – uploaded by Frank Schulenburg – nominated by Frank Schulenburg -- Frank Schulenburg (talk) 01:35, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 01:35, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Great composition and original subject -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:16, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support as per Basile; Special mood. -- Radomianin (talk) 05:22, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Moheen ^{(keep talking)} 09:57, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Cart (talk) 11:01, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Absolutely excellent Cmao20 (talk) 13:21, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

•  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]

• In my opinion just because the trend can continue doesn't mean that it should. Perhaps there is someone who can benefit from analyzing brushstrokes in extremely high detail but it is not likely to be the vast majority of users. I believe we should feature the version of a picture that is most useful to the widest number of people. Commons may choose to host these high-resolution 'tiles' if we think a niche interest wants to use them, but I don't see why the tiles should be the version we feature, there's no reason why 'more is better'. Cmao20 (talk) 02:05, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  @Cmao20, that's a fair point. ZoomViewer has no issue with the half-gigabyte image. In your mind, which of the two versions has more accurate lighting and coloration? File:1665 Girl with a Pearl Earring.jpg or File:Girl with a Pearl Earring - Hirox.jpg? JayCubby (talk) 04:42, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

•  Keep per Cmao20, and thank you for taking this issue with too big files head on. The monstrous file is good to have in the Commons archive for whenever someone feels the need for a CSI investigation of Vermeer's household lint embedded in the paint. However, for normal use on sites with the broadband speed we have today, the present FP is more than enough. I think that the file that is FP, should not only be the best but also the most useful version for wikis etc. Also I just wonder: "Now superseded by"? I don't see the {{Superseded}} or {{Supersedes}} anywhere. --Cart (talk) 12:21, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 20 May 2025 at 22:01:32 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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• 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]

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Arthropods#Family_:_Tettigoniidae_(Katydids_or_Bush_Crickets)
•  Info Great green bush-cricket on a red engine bonnet. Created, uploaded and nominated by ThoBel-0043 -- ThoBel-0043 (talk) 21:57, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support -- ThoBel-0043 (talk) 21:57, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 20 May 2025 at 20:40:47 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural/Germany#Bavaria
•  Info View of the Chiemgau Alps during sunrise from the top of the Hochries mountain (1,569 metres (5,148 ft)), Bavaria, Germany. c/u/n by Poco a poco (talk) 20:40, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support -- Poco a poco (talk) 20:40, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --UnpetitproleX (Talk) 23:56, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support I saw these in your recent uploads and was sure you were about to nominate one. I think this is the best one. I don't think the image quality is perfect - the original upload was a bit noisier than I'd have expected even for ISO 800 - but the final version is much better, and it is 38 megapixels so I don't want to be too picky. Stunning mood and composition. Cmao20 (talk) 00:17, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Nice mood and appealing composition -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:19, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Radomianin (talk) 05:14, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support per Cmao20. – Aristeas (talk) 10:28, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Cart (talk) 11:12, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 12:26, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Plants/Asparagales#Family : Amaryllidaceae
•  Info Blossom of an ornamental leek with water droplets. Focus stack of 6 shots. Photographed in a garden in Bamberg. All by me -- Ermell (talk) 20:24, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support -- Ermell (talk) 20:24, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Brilliant capture with perfect sharpness, balanced bokeh, and detailed droplets. Aesthetically and technically outstanding. -- Radomianin (talk) 21:01, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support -- Wonderful image. The complementary colors of the pink and green work well, with the soft background adding a nice juxtaposition, but not distracting from the subject. The details of the flower and the dew steal the show! --Needsmoreritalin (talk) 21:46, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Cart (talk) 21:46, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --UnpetitproleX (Talk) 23:57, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support As usual, very well done Cmao20 (talk) 00:14, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Crispy sharp. Impressive level of detail -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:20, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Stunning photo, perfectly executed focus stack. JayCubby (talk) 05:14, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support per Radomianin and Needsmoreritalin. – Aristeas (talk) 10:27, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 12:24, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural#North Macedonia
•  Info created by Деан Лазаревски – uploaded by Деан Лазаревски – nominated by Kiril Simeonovski -- Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 19:54, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support -- Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 19:54, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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]

•  Oppose Sorry. Nice composition and framing, but I can see a lot of noise and not great sharpness. I don't think it's special enough to promote given the flaws Cmao20 (talk) 00:13, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose Sorry, I don't see an elephant nor anything special -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:21, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Sports#Motorsports
•  Info motor sport, DTM Classic, Norisring Nürnberg 2024: Stefan Mücke / Peter Mücke (Mercedes-Benz C-Klasse DTM); panning shot;
  no sharp bird, no perfectly illuminated landscape, but an action shot with (at least for me) a wow effect;
  created, uploaded and nominated by Stepro
•  Support -- Stepro (talk) 00:43, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Info Vorne etwas mehr Raum und ich stimme dafür. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 01:59, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Cmao20 (talk) 12:40, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured_pictures/Objects/Vehicles/Air_transport#Helicopters
•  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]

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Arthropods/Arachnida#Family : Araneidae (Orb-weaver Spiders)
•  Info High quality focus stack with a good composition. Features both the female and the much smaller male of the species in one frame. created by Charlesjsharp – uploaded by Charlesjsharp – nominated by Cmao20 -- Cmao20 (talk) 23:09, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support -- Cmao20 (talk) 23:09, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support per Cmao20. – Aristeas (talk) 08:51, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Thank you for the nomination. Charlesjsharp (talk) 08:58, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Yikes! --Cart (talk) 13:35, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Perfect - Riad Salih (talk) 17:38, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 19:51, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support excellent! --UnpetitproleX (Talk) 22:04, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support High level of detail, excellent focus, technically well done -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:23, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 12:22, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured_pictures/Animals/Birds#Family_:_Columbidae_(Pigeons_and_Doves)
•  Info created by Stephan Sprinz – uploaded by Stephan Sprinz – nominated by Stephan Sprinz -- Stephan Sprinz (talk) 09:52, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support -- Stephan Sprinz (talk) 09:52, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support - The hypnotic eye and soft colors are engaging. - ERcheck (talk) 14:42, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Simple but effective --Stepro (talk) 15:20, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Neutral Simple, good detail and elegant, but I could do without the disturbing white fluff at the top and focus on the bird. In my view, it's fencing it in. --Cart (talk) 15:28, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Weak support A bit of a shame that the tail is out of focus for such a common bird, but very nice composition Cmao20 (talk) 20:08, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Excellent composition and beautiful background for me. – Aristeas (talk) 08:36, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Bijay Chaurasia (talk) 08:56, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support -- The background colors complement the mostly gray pigeon. The background is soft and makes the feather details pop in contrast. I saw a crop suggestion, and I think the top of the picture presents a slightly distracting element, but I do like the breathing room in front of the bird. It makes you wonder what it is thinking. --Needsmoreritalin (talk) 19:19, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

•  Info Cropped version excluding the (possibly distracting) sky in the background as suggested by Cart and A.Savin but keeping a little bit more space in front of the bird compared to the original crop suggestion. (Also pinging previous voters ERcheck, Stepro, Cmao20, Bijay Chaurasia,Needsmoreritalin)
•  Support --Moheen ^{(keep talking)} 10:01, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Funny enough I actually like the background of the original version, but the cropped version is good, too. – Aristeas (talk) 10:25, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Definitely better. -- -donald- (talk) 11:01, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support per my comment above. --Cart (talk) 11:13, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 12:21, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Plants/Fagales#Family : Betulaceae
•  Info Dead trunk of a Birch (Betula) in decomposition. The years of decomposition process have transformed this birch trunk into a natural work of art.
  All by -- Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 04:25, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support -- Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 04:25, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Definitely an interesting motif. Cmao20 (talk) 20:07, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Llez (talk) 08:02, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --MZaplotnik^(talk) 08:25, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Weak support Great motif. I’d just wish for a little bit more space (less tight crop) at the top and bottom. – Aristeas (talk) 08:46, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Thanks for your comment and vote. A weak excuse, the tripod was at its highest position.--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 15:21, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

•  Weak oppose Unfortunately the crop is too tight at the top to be considered as an excellent image -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:25, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Satellite images#Asia
•  Info Picture of the northern Indian subcontinent taken from the International Space Station, showing the region between Agra in the east and Kabul in the west. Created by astronauts on the International Space Station, uploaded by Ras67 – nominated by UnpetitproleX (Talk) 01:33, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support After spending a tense night with drone & missile attacks, and jets flying overhead here in northern India (since India and Pakistan are on the cusp of war), I'm reminded by this picture of how artificial this border that has consumed millions of lives really is. -- UnpetitproleX (Talk) 01:33, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Comment Impressive, but very noisy. I am unsure this counts as one of our best pictures of Earth from space when there is so much competition nowadays. Cmao20 (talk) 20:07, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  I understand, Cmao20. It indeed is quite noisy, but we do have this FP which is similarly noisy. I can see the noise being a reason to oppose, but for me the numerous village, town, and city lights peeking through winter fog of the densely populated Indo-Gangetic plain, interrupted by the thinly populated Himalayas, Hindu Kush and Tibetan Plateau in the north and Thar desert in the bottom left corner, and the continuity of the landscape make it quite beautiful. UnpetitproleX (Talk) 21:00, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

•  Support despite the noise caused from ISO 10.000 --Ras67 (talk) 20:22, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Moral support for the very honourable reasons to nominate this photo, but mostly because of the good composition. Unlike some other pictures of Earth from space it gives me an imposing impression of the spherical nature of Earth, the lights of the big cities are placed in a harmonic way, and the green arc over the far horizon adds some “space feeling”. This and the very difficult circumstances (a night shot from space, ISO 10.000 despite ƒ/1.4) excuse the noise for me. – Aristeas (talk) 08:25, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

•  Support Good arguments Cmao20 (talk) 12:56, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

•  Support After having looked through the 1,507 photos from space of this region: Yes, this one is the best despite the high ISO. It has both good compo and the wow-factor, and it shows the region in a very illustrative way. --Cart (talk) 13:39, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support as per Aristeas and Cart. Special thanks to Cart for her extensive research and support. Your efforts in reviewing the extensive collection of photographs of the region were invaluable. -- Radomianin (talk) 14:50, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• I would also add that sometimes night photos reveal more about human activity than those taken in daylight, even though there are plenty of hints that photos for wikis should be taken in daylight. Here the borderline is clearly visible, and then there are also photos like this one where all the oil rigs in the Atlantic are clearly visible. They and other structures at sea don't show up on sites like Google maps, since they only service land and coastal regions. So for most people they don't exist, as in "out of sight, out of mind". --Cart (talk) 15:37, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Thank you very much, Cart. Your words, as always, add depth and perspective. I really appreciate how you so often see what lies between the lines, and bring it to light, both in your images and in the way you speak about them. -- Radomianin (talk) 16:04, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 12:20, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Sports#Motorsports
•  Info motor sport, DTM, Norisring Nürnberg 2024: Award Ceremony; Nicki Thiim (DEN, Lamborghini, SSR Performance); celebration, Champagne shower;
  created, uploaded and nominated by Stepro
•  Support -- Stepro (talk) 01:23, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 15:32, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose Sorry but while I love the composition, it seems very unsharp to me Cmao20 (talk) 20:06, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  I don't know what exactly you expect. "Freezing" the champagne splashes with a very short exposure time would ruin the emotionality of the photo just as much as focusing on the person behind it. The motion blur of the champagne splashes is what makes the photo in my opinion. Stepro (talk) 21:39, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Of course I don't want you to freeze them with a short exposure time. That would ruin the photo. I just mean that the image is not sharp. There is no fine detail, either on the droplets or on the man in the background. It's like everything is out of focus. Cmao20 (talk) 00:38, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

•  Oppose Sorry, but I'm with Cmao20 on this. It's great that the champagne splash is not "frozen" that brings life to the photo, but I'd like the guy to be sharper, like you managed to do in this photo. I'd choose that photo over this. Apart from that, the file name is not describing what's in the photo. We are always telling new users to follow the Commons naming policy, we "oldies" should do that too. --Cart (talk) 00:02, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• When I look at the vast quality difference between the picture you link (which is excellent and I'd vote for as FP (Edit: amusingly it appears I opposed this picture in 2019. I've changed my mind, it should have become FP)) and this one, I almost wonder if Stepro even uploaded the right file here. This picture is poor quality and looks almost upsampled. Cmao20 (talk) 00:40, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  I have at least nominated the photo that I intended to nominate. ;-) For me personally, it's one of my photos from last year that conveys real emotion. Of course, I could also nominate other super-sharp photos, but they wouldn't have that wow effect that was at least once demanded here. (On the grounds that FP is not QI.) The other photo mentioned is less emotional for me, that's how different perspectives can be. In my opinion, the big difference in terms of sharpness is not that it is present there and missing here, but that in the other photo the people are not standing behind the champagne shower and are therefore naturally in focus. In this picture, the focus is clearly on the champagne splashes, but they have a motion blur. As the name suggests - a blur. One that I wanted. Stepro (talk) 00:56, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Well, as I say I think the composition of this picture is very good, but I don't know why you think I have a problem with the motion blur. The motion blur is absolutely necessary for the picture to work. It conveys a dynamic impression. But the focus isn't 'clearly on the champagne splashes'. I don't think the focus is anywhere. Nothing in this picture is really sharp, and I don't mean this in the sense that the subject is blurry, I mean that the subject is badly focussed and the image has no detail. Cmao20 (talk) 12:47, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

•  Oppose Sorry, but I can just second Cmao20’s comment. Somehow this photo looks like a smartphone shot – no fine details. Even falling splashes of liquids can look more detailed (e.g.). In addition, I also cannot find any “wow” in the subject of this photo: it just shows a perverted waste of luxury foods. Using champagne as a fun shower is tasteless and stupid, it’s typical of the hollowness of our affluent society, which doesn’t know how to express pleasure other than through senseless exaggeration and waste. Yes, you can call this an odd comment, but everyone can make an odd comment from time to time, and at least this is a honest one and not a revenge vote. ;–) – Aristeas (talk) 08:11, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds/Passeriformes
•  Info Warbling vireo (Vireo gilvus) singing. Surprised that we seem to have no FPs of any species in the vireo family. Took me a long time to get a good shot of this one -- maybe I'll put some additional effort into the others. all by — Rhododendrites ^talk |  21:06, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support — Rhododendrites ^talk |  21:06, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 22:17, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Stepro (talk) 01:09, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Cmao20 (talk) 20:05, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Comment The bird is great, but the bokeh branch above it looks like it's about to whack the poor guy. Any chance of making it less conspicuous? --Cart (talk) 21:30, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • True. Thanks, W.carter.  new version uploaded. — Rhododendrites ^talk |  02:19, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

•  Support Thanks, now the bird looks like it sings out of joy and not sounding an alarm. ;) --Cart (talk) 11:16, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

•  Comment No luck here, fuzzy. Would expect sharper, despite 600mm. But i saw texture is new, good for you. --Mile (talk) 09:13, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 12:18, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 18 May 2025 at 20:44:42 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Fish#Family : Labridae (Wrasses)
•  Info Wounded wrasse (Halichoeres chierchiae), La Paz, Baja California, Mexico. Note: we have no FPs of genus Halichoeres chierchiae and I uploaded in fact the first images of this species to Commons. c/u/n by Poco a poco (talk) 20:44, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support -- Poco a poco (talk) 20:44, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Beautiful fish despite the wound, and its shadow gives the image depth. --Cart (talk) 22:11, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 22:19, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --MZaplotnik^(talk) 09:32, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Cmao20 (talk) 20:05, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 04:34, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support per Cart. – Aristeas (talk) 08:32, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 12:16, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 18 May 2025 at 15:26:29 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Other#Germany
•  Info created by Llez – uploaded by Llez – nominated by Llez -- Llez (talk) 15:26, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support -- Llez (talk) 15:26, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --MZaplotnik^(talk) 09:32, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Beautiful panorama Cmao20 (talk) 20:05, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 04:33, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Very nice and interesting panorama. Thank you for the image notes with the names of the villages etc. They will be forgotten when this nomination is over, hence it would be great if you could add the same notes to the description page of your photo, too. – Aristeas (talk) 08:32, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Done Thanks for the hint --Llez (talk) 08:52, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • Thank you! – Aristeas (talk) 10:25, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 12:14, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 18 May 2025 at 12:11:37 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Industry#Germany
•  Info Something a little different. A study of industrial grandeur in the machine hall of a former 'model mine' on the outskirts of Dortmund. created by GZagatta – uploaded by GZagatta – nominated by Cmao20 -- Cmao20 (talk) 12:11, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support -- Cmao20 (talk) 12:11, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Llez (talk) 15:39, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Poco a poco (talk) 17:19, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --MZaplotnik^(talk) 21:31, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 09:49, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 15:33, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Olivier LPB (talk) 17:17, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support per nomination. – Aristeas (talk) 18:34, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Nicely composed scene with pleasant sense of symmetry, soft light, and a touch of nostalgic industrial charm. -- Radomianin (talk) 18:58, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 20:45, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 04:32, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Bijay Chaurasia (talk) 08:57, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Argenberg (talk) 09:39, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Moheen ^{(keep talking)} 10:03, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Agriculture#Germany
•  Info created and uploaded Field and Mühlenbach on the border between Börnste (Kirchspiel) and Merfeld, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany nominated by XRay -- XRay 💬 08:07, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support -- XRay 💬 08:07, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Cmao20 (talk) 12:25, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Llez (talk) 15:38, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --MZaplotnik^(talk) 21:30, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support - Finally. There was something about this photo that bugged me, but I couldn't figure out what. But since it's an aerial photo, you can turn it whichever way you want and I started fiddling with it. I find it more pleasing if it's turned 90 deg counter clock, so that the stream is along the right side of the image. That way the tractor tracks don't curve upwards in that "Inception way" (it gives me vertigo!). But since that is up to the individual viewer, I guess it doesn't matter. ;-) --Cart (talk) 22:03, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  I was thinking something similar. Its a very cool optical illusion. It looks like the dark green grass in the foreground is flat and then the cut grass curves upwards like a wall. --Needsmoreritalin (talk) 22:23, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

•  Support -- Your image so perfectly captures the scene that I started sneezing and had to take a benadryl. --Needsmoreritalin (talk) 22:24, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 09:48, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --UnpetitproleX (Talk) 21:06, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 04:31, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Bijay Chaurasia (talk) 08:57, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Non-photographic media/Maps#Maps of Asia
•  Info created by Survey of India / Walker, J. & C., uploaded and nominated by Yann
•  Info Old map of Indian Himalaya. Scale 1:253,440. 1894. The source file has some issue, so I needed to crop it.
•  Support Very high resolution. Actually it is difficult to find recent map of the Indian Himalaya at this scale. -- Yann (talk) 21:52, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support A valuable image, and very high resolution. --UnpetitproleX (Talk) 10:53, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Very nice Cmao20 (talk) 11:20, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Llez (talk) 15:38, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support A masterpiece of surveying and cartography. Do I understand correctly that sheet 66 has four parts (NW, NE, SW, SE) and that they have been glued together in order to have the whole sheet at once? Or are these four different sheets? In any case, the borders of the NW part do not align well with the borders of the adjacent parts, maybe they come from another edition; but the map itself is aligned very well, and that’s more important. – Aristeas (talk) 18:02, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Yes, you are right. Map sheets are usually divided in several parts. I don't know the reason why the borders do not align. It is not mentioned at the source. Yann (talk) 18:48, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Thank you! Well, as I said above, most of the actual map is aligned very well at the borders of the parts, so it does not hurt that the margins are not perfectly aligned. – Aristeas (talk) 19:52, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

•  Support --MZaplotnik^(talk) 21:30, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 09:46, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 04:30, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural#Sweden
•  Info Dense vegetation on the shore of Brofjorden at Lahälla, Lysekil Municipality, Sweden. In some places the hiking path goes through little tunnels of greenery, like this patch of birches (Betula pendula). The trail is part of Kuststigen hiking trail. All by me, -- Cart (talk) 21:19, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support -- Cart (talk) 21:19, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --XRay 💬 07:41, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Nice mood --UnpetitproleX (Talk) 10:48, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Nice light and good leading lines Cmao20 (talk) 11:18, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Peaceful, inviting. I feel like I've been there. - ERcheck (talk) 14:19, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Llez (talk) 15:36, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Beautifully composed with effective rule of thirds; the path leads the eye naturally. Lovely light and framing birch trees create a calm, inviting scene. -- Radomianin (talk) 17:12, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support This kind of photos looks simple, but I have tried to take similar images and almost always failed – something was wrong, was missing, etc. I think I have mentioned this (or a related photo) as example for you talent to find the representative detail and frame it perfectly. – Aristeas (talk) 17:56, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support -- Lovely image. Well composed and exposed. You can see the trail is popular too! --Needsmoreritalin (talk) 18:16, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Poco a poco (talk) 20:46, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 09:33, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 15:33, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 04:29, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 17 May 2025 at 20:31:53 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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• Gallery: Commons:Featured_pictures/Animals/Mammals/Primates#Genus : Macaca (Macaques)
•  Info created by Mounir Neddi – uploaded by Mounir Neddi – nominated by Mounir Neddi -- Mounir Neddi (talk) 20:31, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support -- Mounir Neddi (talk) 20:31, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose -- I am sorry, but the image has contrast, lighting, clarity and composition issues that don't meet the standards for Featured Pictures. --Needsmoreritalin (talk) 23:04, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose Nice capture but sorry, the angle, the strong shadows, and the image quality, are not sufficient for FP Cmao20 (talk) 11:17, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 17 May 2025 at 03:13:19 (UTC)
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• 
  A hen Red-breasted Merganser in flight in the Barnegat Inlet.
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  A drake Red-breasted Merganser in the Barnegat Inlet.
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  A juvenile drake, Red-breasted Merganser in the Barnegat Inlet.

• Gallery: Commons:Featured_pictures/Animals/Birds/Anseriformes#Genus_:_Mergus
•  Info created, uploaded and nominated by Needmoreritalin (I hope I did this right)-- Needsmoreritalin (talk) 03:13, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support There are no Mergansers in the Featured Picture Galleries, so I am submitting a set. -- Needsmoreritalin (talk) 03:13, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]