Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/2021 Table Mountain fire

2021 Table Mountain fire
Voting period ends on 24 Dec 2023  at 13:46:50 (UTC)
 * Reason:High resolution, eyecatching image that illustrates the effects of the 2021 Table Mountain fire
 * Articles in which this image appears:2021 Table Mountain fire
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Food and drink
 * Creator:Ashraf Hendricks


 * Support as nominator – Nathan121212 (talk) 13:46, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose – Image is grainy at best, fading to blurry in BG due to short DOF. The large fire that caused the damage shown probably was significant in South Africa, but casualties were limited to five firemen being hospitalized. It doesn't appear to have generated very wide coverage elsewhere, and thus would seem to be of little EV. – Sca (talk) 15:43, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose, it's not clear what is important on that photo - there is a meal on a table with some huts and benches in the background, but it's hard to say what's _important_ there - a meal, a table, these huts? I definitely wouldn't call it an "eyecatching image". Artem.G (talk) 17:19, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose as above. – Yann (talk) 13:45, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose per above. – Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:31, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
 * As a newspaper/documentary photo, I kind of like it. It shows the suddenness of people leaving: The idea of "food on the table, partially eaten, but no-one there" has a lot of resonance. But I'm not sure encyclopedias are really able to do the storytelling that a newspaper could do with this sort of image. At the very least, the caption isn't quite catching the idea well. Also, a focus stack would have really helped to bring the devastation and uneaten food into a coherent single image. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.7% of all FPs. 02:14, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 19:13, 24 December 2023 (UTC)