Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bay of Fires

Bay of Fires
Voting period ends on 17 Jan 2013 at 19:04:24 (UTC)
 * Reason:High EV and high quality
 * Articles in which this image appears:Bay of Fires
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Places/Landscapes
 * Creator:Poco a poco


 * Support as nominator --Tomer T (talk) 19:04, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose Nice colours, but limited EV as doesn't provide a good overview of the bay. This has much higher EV. The file should be renamed as is not in NZ. -- ELEKHHT 07:11, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
 * It shows a notable feature of this bay: the orange-hued granite. Tomer T (talk) 08:06, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, but that orange lichen is not characteristic of this bay alone but a larger portion of the coast of Tasmania, and the image does not provide much detail of it. -- ELEKHHT 09:39, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Weak support A nice shot, but better if you can show more of the bay. Hop n hop  (on the arctic ice) 10:36, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Weak Support The Wikipedia article isn't very well written. 'The Bay of Fires' may be used to refer to a region of coastline about 50km long, or a shallow bay around 30km long. Either way, it is not one beach like the image Elekhh links to. It consists of many beaches and rocky outcrops. I feel that this short is more representative of the coastline in many ways. Certainly better than calling one beach The Bay of Fires. See this map. The region usually includes Mount William National Park. Weak because it's oversharpened and oversaturated a bit. JJ Harrison (talk) 11:16, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Agree that is hard to assess EV with only a poor article at hand. Whether 30 or 50km long, Freycinet is probably not part of it, yet the same orange lichen extends further. Some would argue that the white sand beaches (not visible in the photo) is what is characteristic to the area. As to the merits of the detail, if you look at the image at full scale, is lacking detail, has a lot of reflections and is overprocessed. At small size looks nice though, and would support as a valued picture. - ELEKHHT 11:40, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Lichen aside, the granite itself is pink at Freycinet because of iron oxide impurities in the feldspar. The appearance is quite different if you look carefully. Empty white sand beaches are found all over the east coast of Tasmania and aren't particularly characteristic in my view. Most of the coastline of Tasmania isn't granite. JJ Harrison (talk) 02:14, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Weak support - The picture itself is fine, though the composition could probably be better. My objection is that it shows such a small part of the bay. I think Elekhh's objection is pertinent.  ceran  thor 21:57, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 19:04, 17 January 2013 (UTC)