Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/BuddhaReclining.jpg

The Buddha Reclining
Voting period ends on 14 Mar 2011 at 02:05:34 (UTC)
 * Reason:This is the new updated Image I first took in 1995. It has wonderful light & color, and has been posted on the Wikipedia page for this structure as the main image for this Temple, located in Bangkok Thailand for over 2 years. First posted on: 21:21, 7 December 2009.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Wat Pho
 * FP category for this image:Reclining Buddha statue of Wat Pho Worlds largest "Buddha"
 * Creator:WPPilot


 * Support as nominator --WPPilot 00:34, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose Flowers in the front distract from the subject, the angle is horrible, and the top of the Buddha is cut off of the shot just to name the top three reasons that come to mind. Cat-five - talk 20:14, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose The angle is less than encyclopaedic (that doesn't make it a bad photo!). JJ Harrison (talk) 23:01, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose I wish that the photo was taken from a straight-on angle rather than from the side. This angle just doesn't show as much. -- mcshadypl T C  03:50, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment Having been to Bangkok and visited a few of these reclining Buddhas, I just want to point out to folks here that many of these places have just enough space in the building for you to move around the Buddha. It is impossible to get a shot of the full length from the middle using a normal lense. You can only do it from the sides. Having said that, the flowers spoils this shot for me. SMasters (talk) 06:57, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Its true, though someone has gotten clever stitching panoramas before and it is possible to get a front on, though cut off, view with an UWA. JJ Harrison (talk) 09:16, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
 * That first picture looks like a painting. Unless they tore down the walls, I'm not sure how it's possible to get the shots required for the stitching. – SMasters (talk) 03:32, 8 March 2011 (UTC)


 * The first does look like something that's not a photo eh. But yea, not really FP quality composition. Sorry, another oppose from me. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 18:54, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Nominator Comment: I took this picture on a weekend, a few weeks ago and the place had not less then 400 people in it at the time the shot was taken. The flowers cover a flaw in the arm of the Buddha that you can see in the original version of this same photo that I took in 1995, just look at the pictures history. --WPPilot 03:47, 9 March 2011 (UTC) (WPPilot)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 08:07, 14 March 2011 (UTC)