Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Carcasssonne vieux pont.jpg

Fortified city of Carcassonne and the Pont Vieux
This panoramic view shows the restored fortified city of Carcassonne and the Pont Vieux crossing the Aude River in southern France.
 * Nominate and support. - Jplavoie 11:23, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong Support. Beautiful! The resolution is spectacular, the composition is excelent! This is what a featured picture should be!--Pharaoh Hound 11:55, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.png|15px]] Support Great job Jplavoie! --Fir0002 style="color:#C6CACC; background:#F8FCFF">www 12:22, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. Spectacular. I wonder how the picture taken by the guy on the bridge turned out. bcasterline t 12:38, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. A nice shot! --Janke | Talk 14:06, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Support nice. chowells 14:17, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Support, though artistically I don't like the compositio that much - is it a picture of the bridge or the fortified city? I find it hard to know where I'm looking exactly. Stevage 18:59, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Support - Although I do wonder what this would come out like as a thumbnail on the front page... it's stunning (and enormous) at full size but I think it's going to be very difficult to see what's in the image at first glance - the fortifications are very indistinct in the thumb. --Yummifruitbat 22:59, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Support - Oh wow, so that's what Carcassonne looks like. -- Cyde Weys  23:14, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

The bridge is indeed called "Pont vieux" which is not usual in french. I don't know the explanation for this yet. For your info also, the bridge from where the picture was taken is called "Pont neuf" which means new bridge and is the normal word order in this case. - Jplavoie 00:43, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. Beautiful. I like the composition, which adds a lot of interest for the eye. It needs to be shown in the article in as big a format as possible, possibly stretching right across the page. With this amount of detail, it has got to be the result of a stitch of several tripod-mounted time exposures. Can we have some technical details, please? --Surgeonsmate 04:27, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Technical details. Yes your right Surgeonsmate, the picture is actually made of 15 tripod mounted portrait shots stitched together using a Digital Rebel XT (8Mpixels). The resulting file is massive!  Of course, I used a fixed aperture for constant depth of field, fixed focus and a common white balance and exposure between each frame.  The scene was a real beauty and being new to the location, I didn't expect the old bridge to be there and that was a nice surprise! In fact my goal changed at that point to show the medial city at night and the bridge with the help of the panoramic format. - Jplavoie 10:31, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Support - a beautiful image.Flymeoutofhere 16:49, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Support This is stunning, makes me want to read the corresponding article! - Pogoman 17:04, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Support beautiful picture, interesting details Mikeo 17:21, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong Support sensational. Anonymous  _anonymous  Have a Nice Day  17:39, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. Stunning color, great detail.-- Dakota ~ 05:19, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Fortified support. - Mgm|(talk) 09:50, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong support. Excellent.  howch e  ng   {chat} 16:49, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * ahah, fortified support. this is a very striking image.. i like it, and those are some cool trees.  who knew those grew in France?  drumguy  8800  -  speak  03:34, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. Fab. U. Lous.--BradPatrick 04:35, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Does no one else see the awful artifacts in the sky? --Dante Alighieri | Talk 15:52, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, on different LCD monitors it does look different, but the artifacts are still there. I'll try to upload a "boosted" image to illustrate my concern. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 17:33, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Support Alright, I see the artifacts, but the rest of the image is stunning enough to cancel them out. --Lewk_of_S e rthic contrib talk 21:18, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Support, I usually don't care for panoramas but this one is an exception. -- BWF89 03:00, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Question is the bridge actually called "Pont vieux" or "Vieux pont"? The file name is the latter, but the descriptions etc are the former. Normally in French it would be "vieux pont", but perhaps it's so old it retains an older word order? Stevage 08:40, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Support Tobyk777 05:11, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. Spectacular composition, beautiful night shot. Artifacting is so minor of an issue as to be inconsequential.  Miwa * talk * contribs ^_^ 17:41, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Support Wow. I've never seen a photo of Carcassonne before--it's really incredible. michaelb Talk to this user 23:49, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Support Looking on Wikipedia for places I'll be visiting on my holidays when I came across this. Stunning photo, well done. Bastun 23:59, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Support Definantly worth 1,000 words. TomStar81 01:07, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Mikeo 08:38, 14 May 2006 (UTC)