Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/St Michael's Church at night

St Michael's Uniting Church, Melbourne, at night
Voting period ends on 5 Jan 2013 at 08:14:11 (UTC)
 * Reason:Beautifully captured and lit image showing the historic church illuminated on a wintery night in inner city Melbourne
 * Articles in which this image appears:St Michael's Uniting Church, Melbourne, Collins Street, Melbourne, Melbourne
 * FP category for this image:
 * Creator:Peter Novacco (on Flickr: St Michael's at night


 * Support as nominator --Dodgedbullet (talk) 08:14, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose Unless there is a page for this specific church, then EV is tenuous at best for Melbourne and suspect for Collins Street, Melbourne. It's also not been in the article the required 7 days for a FPC to even begin, thirdly it's used in a gallery on Collins Street, Melbourne which is against criteria, and finally Melbourne is over-illustrated so you'd be hard pressed to find a good reason to keep it in that article, and I'd be surprised if one of the regular editors doesn't remove it. As for the content of the photograph, I think the tree infront of the image is too distracting of the subject, the night shot isn't ideal for illustrating the church, day-time would probably be preferred on EV grounds. — raeky  t  09:09, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * It is in the article for the church, actually. It just wasn't listed for some reason. Adam Cuerden (talk) 09:59, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Weak Support Certainly the best of the pictures in the article on the church; would prefer day, but this is attractive and avoids the very leafy trees that plague the day shots by shooting in winter. Adam Cuerden (talk) 09:59, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose While this is a tight site, the composition is overly cluttered due to the background of lit up buildings. Also, something weird is happening to the ANZ building in the background (distortion caused by the wide lens?). An equivalent daytime photo would have stronger EV. Nick-D (talk) 06:37, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose It's an odd picture... There seems to be random sections of distortion, as noticed by Nick-D, but also in the verticals of the main tower of the church - the bricks at the edge of the tower are angled to the right, but then when you get to the top the verticals are... well, verticle again... There's little sections of funny angles around the base too... I can only assume that this is a composite picture and unfortunately some of the individual shots were taken at an angle... As regards the background for me it can't be helped - that's what is behind the church after all... BUT looking at the right side of the background, it seems to have a clearer section as the tall buildings are further away - maybe taking this picture from a few paces to the left would solve the background issues? gaz hiley  10:31, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 09:55, 5 January 2013 (UTC)