Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Blue Lake (Mount Gambier)

Blue Lake (South Australia)
Voting period ends on 22 Mar 2017  at 02:33:20 (UTC)
 * Reason:High quality image of an important South Australian landmark that offers the reader a visual to associate with the topic.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Blue Lake (South Australia)
 * FP category for this image:Landscapes
 * Creator:HeyJude70


 * Support as nominator – ThomDevexx ॐ (talk) 02:33, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Question Two things. Would the image be better without the tree on the right? Second, and apologies if I'm wrong, but is there some issue with the water where I've annotated the photo? Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:14, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment: Clone out the "levitating" tree top at right! However, use the original, not the brightened version, since there are quite a bit of compression artifacts in the water, already. I'll check in later and see if it's supportable... --Janke | Talk 14:17, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Weak Support after the fix. --Janke | Talk 07:57, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Oppose I'm afraid - it's a decent representational picture of the subject; but compression artefacts are quite visible even downsized; lighting isn't amazing; and the crop seems very tight at both the bottom and the right margins (I think this was made worse by the tree removal, incidentally - I think it would be better to use a clone tool to remove this, as Janke suggested, rather than re-crop). Also, the lake seems to be known for its seasonal "vibrant cobalt blue" colour, which doesn't really seem to be shown here; unless it's the other photos on the article that are misleading.  Probably none of these would be a dealbreaker alone, but I'm not convinced this sits alongside the other photos in Featured_pictures/Places/Landscapes.  TSP (talk) 11:45, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Oppose Per TSP - Jobas (talk) 13:49, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 05:53, 22 March 2017 (UTC)