Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Laupa manor

Laupa Manor
Voting period ends on 10 Mar 2017  at 18:49:27 (UTC)
 * Reason:Good picture of an important historical building
 * Articles in which this image appears:Laupa, Järva County, Jacques Rosenbaum, List of palaces and manor houses in Estonia
 * FP category for this image:architecture
 * Creator:Ivar Leidus


 * Support as nominator – Yakikaki (talk) 18:49, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment Not convinced by the lamp post. Charlesjsharp (talk) 22:55, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose - Agree with Charles. If it weren't for that lamp post, I'd be supporting. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:23, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose Per Chris Woodrich – Jobas (talk) 12:30, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
 *  Comment Oppose – Obviously, the lamppost could easily be cropped out. Alas, Laupa is little more than a stub. Sca (talk) 14:42, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Cropping out the lamp post would unbalance the picture. Cropping the whole thing by the same amount would lead to the crop being too tight. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:52, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Pix don't have to be symmetrical. But I agree with Janke below that a better composition could be achieved from a somewhat different vantage point. Sca (talk) 15:21, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I never said symmetrical. I said balance. This photograph's composition was clearly intended to be symmetrical, hence the question of balance. Balance can also include non-symmetrical but aesthetically pleasing components such as the composition of land, water, and sky in File:John Constable - Wivenhoe Park, Essex - Google Art Project.jpg. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:04, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Well, they don't necessarily have to be "balanced" either. Sca (talk) 16:32, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Criterion 1, point 3: "... [an FP] has good composition...". If you know of a photograph or painting where a lack of balance contributes positively to composition, please link it. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:55, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Are you calling me unbalanced? Sca (talk) 01:32, 5 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Oppose - not only because of the post, but for the branches, too. Easy to shoot a better composition. --Janke | Talk 07:02, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose - per lamppost, too bad it wasn't taken one step forward. Mattximus (talk) 17:13, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Oppose Per others.  lNeverCry   03:54, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 20:53, 10 March 2017 (UTC)