Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Russell Falls Mt Field National Park.jpg

Russell Falls

 * Reason:Probably the most notable waterfall in Tasmania, appearing on much tourist documentation and so on. It replaced another more obscure waterfall in the Tasmania article. The upper curtain isn't easily accessible but is partially visible in the background.
 * Articles this image appears in:Russell Falls, Mount Field National Park, Tasmania
 * Creator:Noodle snacks


 * Support as nominator --Noodle snacks (talk) 11:47, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. Have to admit, from memory it isn't the best photo of this falls that I've seen - the tourist brochures typically show the upper curtain much better, I think... That said, having done a quick search I haven't found any that match my mind's eye of it. Think I'd prefer to see an angle a bit more like this one though. Diliff  | (Talk)   (Contribs) 13:15, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Alternate I have one too :-) And the park is named after me? Mfield (Oi!) 05:45, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Wow, practically an identical photo, except with slightly different white balance and seemingly more distortion (the path of the water isn't as straight at the edges as NS's). Amazing how little has changed in a year. Diliff  | (Talk)   (Contribs) 09:19, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The waterfall has been around for 170 million years, so it probably hasn't changed much in a long time (apart from when the area was logged iirc)! I think that the best shot I have seen was with a wide angle from the left hand side over the fence. There are usually too many people to go climbing/swimming though, and the enc would suffer with that angle. Lady Barron Falls was taken knee deep in water after climbing the fence and a few logs and is much better than the view from the lookout (the left log has moved now, the right hasn't). Noodle snacks (talk) 09:56, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I went up to Mfield's park again today. I walked up to the tarn shelf (up on the hill on the LHS of this pano) with the aim of photographing the deciduous Nothofagus gunnii. Naturally just before I arrived the weather went sour with very poor visibility and I didn't get any decent photos up there. I did drop into Russell Falls and took another happy snap, but apart from a slight change in flow rate it didn't look substantially different. I did get a better shot of Horseshoe Falls falls though. Noodle snacks (talk) 14:12, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

No quorum => ~   ωαdεstεr 16  «talkstalk» 14:59, 6 May 2009 (UTC)