Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hoard of silver coins

Hoard of silver coins
Voting period ends on 25 Aug 2010 at 22:51:17 (UTC)
 * Reason:What better way to illustrate our article on hoards? A fine illustration, eyecatching and really makes you want to know more. I don't know how well this will go down, but I thought it was worth a nomination.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Hoard
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Other, unless anyone has another idea.
 * Creator:Hans Hillewaert


 * Support as nominator --J Milburn (talk) 22:51, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose Subject doesn’t impress. Photo doesn’t impress. No “stop, stare & click” for me here. Indeed, it is a hoard. But hoard seems sort of a broad-brush subject that would take me to an uninspired Wikipedia article (Hold on while I check the article… Yup. Uninspired Wikipedia article with this one picture.) Quite importantly, this thumb looks like a bunch of old flattened bottle caps at a recycling center until you look at the enlarged image. Moreover, the lighting here is substandard and looks just like what would happen at a recycling center: take the strobe off the camera, have someone hold it a couple of feet away on its extension, and and let it rip into the pile. Now, if this was a picture of a hoard of gold coins, I’d probably vote “support.” Greg L (talk) 00:59, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually, to be honest, I'm regretting nominating this now. Not really FP material, not certain what I saw in it. Nomination withdrawn. J Milburn (talk) 11:44, 17 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Withdrawn by nominator. Papa Lima Whiskey  (talk) 12:59, 17 August 2010 (UTC)