Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Santa Rosa vineyard

Santa Rosa vineyard


Santa Rosa is the largest city in California's Wine Country. While the most expansive vineyards in both Sonoma and Napa Counties lie on unincorporated county land or within outlying cities, away from U.S. Route 101, this image of a smaller vineyard in Santa Rosa illustrates the City's continuing ties to the wine industry.

Self-taken in July, when the plants and berries are in early bloom (before the width of the vines nearly obliterates the planting pattern) while the hillsides demonstrate the effects of the summer sun.


 * Nominate and support. - RadioKirk (u|t|c)  02:45, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose - good picture but not the best of Wikipedia. --GoOdCoNtEnT 03:02, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose . Weak support Per GoOdCoNtEnT, and size requirements . -- Tewy  03:10, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I missed something; size reqs were 1000px min, right? This is 1024 wide. WP:WIAFP says "Generally, images should be at least 1000 pixels in resolution in width or height", not and. RadioKirk (u|t|c)  03:27, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh thank you thank you thank you. I might've continued with my misreading of the key word "or" for a long time. Now I need to go back and correct a few of my previous votes before it's too late!... -- Tewy  03:43, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * My thanks. :) RadioKirk (u|t|c)  03:46, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Symbol oppose vote.svg|15px]] Oppose A nice image, but I don't feel it is the best Wikipedia has to offer. --Fir0002 06:44, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose It's just a little on the ordinary side. It's sharp, it's clear...but at the end of the day I'm looking at a bunch of grapevines. A higher shot of the whole vineyard (or even several vineyards) might be more impressive? Don't take offence, it's almost there :) Stevage 11:49, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * None taken. :) I did, though, intentionally take a low shot and then crop it to give the viewer the feel of standing in a vineyard. RadioKirk (u|t|c)  13:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Interesting. For me there is *such* a fine line between "viewer feeling like he's standing in the photo" and "happy snap". I usually consider any photo where I can readily identify with the photographer ("oh, he's standing on the side of the road", "he's at the lookout", "he must have climbed on top of the railing") to be a "happy snap" and it's quite distracting. Putting the viewer in the shot can be good though...no idea how you do that effectively without it becoming cheap. Stevage 22:18, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, if "ooh, he's actually standing in a vineyard" is a "happy snap"... ;) RadioKirk (u|t|c)  23:12, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. As others have already said, this is not the best Wikipedia has to offer. Mikeo 20:08, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose, not spectacular, colors are a bit dull. Good image, not FP. HighInBC 12:44, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Just a couple notes. This picture is looking east from Old Redwood Hwy at the Siebert Vineyard. The address is 4120 Old Redwood Hwy. The location is outside (but close to) the city limits. The grapes are pinot noir. The appellation is Russian River Valley. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kmslogos (talk • contribs) 19:58, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

-- Moondigger 02:20, 22 August 2006 (UTC)