Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Champagne celebration - tour of gippsland.jpg

Champagne Celebration

 * Reason:High quality picture showing an event synonymous with the podium in many sports - the champagne spray. I think one of the strengths of this image is that it shows the spray at various stages - the winner (centre) is already well into his bottle, whereas second on the left is just starting and third on the right hasn't opened his yet.
 * Articles this image appears in:Champagne (wine)
 * Creator:Fir0002


 * Support as nominator Fir0002 22:01, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * weak oppose encyc. is okay and the technical side is alright, but I just get no "wow" from this picture at all. When I saw this pic in the thumbnail, I had no desire to learn more about champagne celebrations, though I was curious who the comically tall middle figure was. Matt Deres (talk) 13:11, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Support I agree with everything Matt Deres said above, but have reached a different conclusion. Encyclopedic picture, good quality, and while I don't find it particularly interesting, that certainly doesn't mean that others won't (I imagine fans of bike racing will find this much more interesting than the rest of us). faithless   (speak)  14:44, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose. Picture is too busy to easily see what is going on. Also, no wow factor. Kaldari (talk) 22:51, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose- boring, looks vaguely like guys wanking in thumbnail. Its just not clear, too much business and I think there are better things that represent the topic. pschemp | talk 05:22, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose per other opposes. --Janke | Talk 08:56, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak Oppose Per above. Juliancolton (Talk) 13:58, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak support. I love the champagne globules frozen in midair, looks really cool.. but looks snapshotish, not like anything of encyclopedic importance is going on D\=&lt; (talk) 09:41, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak support. I also think the champagne midair is great. My big problem with the photo is the hidden podium, which makes one of the guys look hugely taller than the other. Calliopejen1 (talk) 21:21, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

MER-C 07:35, 24 February 2008 (UTC)