Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Ice storm leaves.JPG

Freezing Rain

 * Reason:It is a pretty picture that illustrates freezing rain well.
 * Articles this image appears in:Freezing Rain
 * Creator:Robert Lawton

MER-C 11:31, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Support as nominator &mdash; Ozone 07:01, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak Oppose Not big enough on one side, quality isn't great, and also distracting background. -Ishaana 09:22, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose. I can live with the size but the background kills it for me. Pstuart84 Talk 09:49, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose because of background. Size is over "minimum", though. --Janke | Talk 09:53, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Hate to be the voice of dissident, but the pic does fit all the FP criteria. The only relatively minor issue is the background, which I don't see as distracting at all. The out of focus background gives a setting to the subject and doesn't detract from the pic. A background is distracting when the eyes are repeatedly drawn to the background instead of focusing on the the subject. That's certainly not the case for this pic. I like how the leaves are blown back by the freezing rain and later frozen in that position. Horizontal icicles are also interesting. Very sharp and encyclopedic.  Jumping cheese   Cont @ct 10:43, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Ishaana. Witty lama 12:03, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak Support Per Jumpingcheese. And I hate this freezing rain, It always happens in Montreal. --Arad 14:10, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose because it could so easily have been so much better: opening the lens up from f10 to something like f5.6 (or wider if you have a decent lens) would have blurred out most of the distracting backgound detail. Shame, it's a really interesting shot otherwise: no problems with either upload size or image quality, either in my opinion or according to WP:FP?. mikaultalk 17:06, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak Oppose background is slightly distracting but otherwise it is a very good capture --New t on2 12:52, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak support. weak becuase the background is a bit distracting. Entheta 21:00, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Support great photo, illustrates the article well, i find the background brings the leaves to attention rather than distracts you-- Ch ild zy ( Talk 22:12, 17 April 2007 (UTC)