Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Yacht

Aerial Photo of the 80 foot motor yacht "Alchemist"

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 1 Aug 2014 at 01:41:22 (UTC)

Reason: Wonderful high res photo of a 80 foot motor yacht at full speed taken from aircraft.
Articles in which this image appears: Yacht - Motorboat - Luxury yacht - Gulfstar Yachts
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Vehicles/Water
Creator: WPPilot

Support as nominator – talk→ WPPilot 01:41, 22 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Yes, excellent. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 01:47, 22 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Lots of noise, especially chroma noise. Seems underexposed and lacking detail. The angle-of-view would be more involving if lower. Is this really our best picture of a yacht? -- Colin°^Talk

Comment See Alt:. talk→ WPPilot 21:48, 22 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose — Speedboat on water. EV? Aesthetic value? Sca (talk) 02:23, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Sca, it at 80 feet is actually considered a Super Yacht, and I do not think that anyone in the boating community would ever consider this just a Speed Boat. With regard to Aesthetic value, Commons has few Aerial photos of any boats this one is from the DEA, Created: 2004-12-01 or this one a coast guard shot from 2007, are the only aerial photos I have seen. talk→ WPPilot 15:56, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I very much liked the original here, which I thought striking indeed. But I can't fault the technical objections raised. If it was a historical image, then per the guidelines that wouldn't matter. But that's not the case here and frankly Pilot has to up his (her) game. It's a bore, I agree. I have a whole load of images shot on my own gear I know are very fine from a compositional point of view, but I can't in all honesty advance them as "featured". Coat of Many Colours (talk) 22:00, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wow that was a fun ride from" Yes, excellent" to "It's a bore" in a few short hours. OK. I have, in the past already been able to retain a featured photo status for aerial shots of yachts: File:Cabo San Lucas Race Start 2013 photo D Ramey Logan.jpg, and perhaps if the plane in your own gear is running ok, perhaps you might show me how it is I up my game, as I would love to know, what your talking about in detail.