Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Viking Ship

Viking Ship


This is one of the most beautiful structures created by humans, a most stunning expression of Norse art and craftsmanship: a Viking ship (1180 years old) in a vantage exactly from the front. This photo was produced to share the artistic aspect and to start an article about Norse art. We contacted family and friends in Scandinavia to go on.

 ( &minus; ) Oppose Agree with the above comments --Fir0002 July 2, 2005 12:01 (UTC)
 * Nominate - Uwe Kils  (I took the photo) - June 28, 2005 23:58 (UTC)
 * Do you have a better angle? Since it's called a longship I feel like we should probably be able to see the length of it. --CVaneg 29 June 2005 18:59 (UTC)
 * This photo was produced to dramatize the artistic expression and symmetry of this structure from an exact frontal vantage. An oblique view is on the Viking ship page and on the museum sites. I also have a side view, but (for my feeling) this is the most beautiful  Uwe Kils  June 29, 2005 19:10 (UTC)
 * Oppose- The picture doesn't really show what the whole boat looks like and just having the bow of the boat showing doesn't inform the viewer. -Hoekenheef 2 July 2005 03:44 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Composition is a problem as noted above. Enochlau 2 July 2005 08:09 (UTC)
 * Support. Looks like a mathemathic "thing". It's very informative about the sophisticated design of those boats. Ericd 3 July 2005 20:10 (UTC)
 * Is there any way to vote twice ? Ericd 3 July 2005 20:14 (UTC)
 * Oppose bad angle of ship, hence the picture looks odd, and I had to look twice before I understood. Also, the upper half has a low contrast and is only black. -- Chris 73 Talk July 5, 2005 05:56 (UTC)
 * Not if you use a fair resolution B&O screen or go to the offered higher resolutions, the lines of the clinker planks just get that close together, and like in a Siemens star the areas where the lines are closer together than the resolution of the screen get grey - with many beautiful creations one has to look twice, we take that as a compliment, the contrast was the best we could get from this 1000 year old wood (on high resolution 60 mm film with Leitz lens) - the vantage was intentional - we donated this photograph to Wikipedia to share the Norse art - side-view pictures are there by the thousands, 4000 on google alone Uwe Kils  July 5, 2005 13:20 (UTC)

-- Enochlau 13:57, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

