Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe Berlin 2014-07-13.jpg

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Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
  •  Info The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe or the Holocaust Memorial is a large (19,000 m2) memorial located in central Berlin and constructed 2003-2004. We have an existing FP from 2006 with a quite similar compositional idea, but in portrait format and less resolution. Created, uploaded and nominated by Slaunger. -- Slaunger (talk) 13:55, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Slaunger (talk) 13:55, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I don't think this composition represents this monument well. What's impressive is the size and the repetition of so many similar patterns, i.e. File:Memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe.jpg, which cannot be seen here. Sorry. regards, Yann (talk) 17:17, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Sorry,for Yann --LivioAndronico talk 18:58, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support The repeating pattern of the monument is well represented. I like the simplicity of the shot a lot. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 06:18, 2 January 2015 (UTC) [reply]
  •  Comment Thanks for the reviews so far. By not showing how large the monument is, and not showing any boundaries in the photo, it gives a perception of infinity, and makes the observer curious just how big it is. At least that is my intention, but I respect if not all reviewers get this compositional idea. An objective is also to visualize the abstract shapes of the monument without being distracted by the surroundings. -- Slaunger (talk) 09:46, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support At all my visits to this Memorial, I always tried to understand the deeper meaning behind. And I found different answers. This picture reminds me very directl at some of the jewish cemetaries, i.e. in Praha or the old one in Vienna and makes me thoughtful. According to my experience with this "monument", its a realistic, narrow view with a lot of meanings. The one pylon (can I say pylon?), leaning right and/or the two next, leaning slightly left, makes this impression even stronger. --Hubertl (talk) 02:18, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • I forgot to say, that at my first visit, this monument reminded me instantaneous at the strict geometrical order of the barracks of Auschwitz, even when you can´t see them as they were, but you see the hundreds of chimneys left. One after another, almost as far as you can see, especially, when its a foggy, cold and windy november day.--Hubertl (talk) 12:16, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment The existing FP is like a work of art and very good composition and subtle tone (though let down somewhat by the compact camera used). This one isn't working for me at the moment. I've suggested a crop that I think is stronger and enhances the "perception of infinity" (because there's no stop at the bottom). -- Colin (talk) 17:09, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
  •  Info I made a crop below following the proposal by Colin to further emphasize the 'infiniteness' of the monument (less is more). I agree it is a good suggestion. The crop has a better composition regarding the diagonal going from the lower left corner to the upper right corner (a slightly wider crop than proposed by Colin). -- Slaunger (talk) 18:52, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Slaunger (talk) 18:52, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support I didn't (intentionally) suggest cropping the width. I suggested less on the bottom but this works too. However, I took a wee bit off the top too, to avoid the distracting sliver of detail in the top left, and I still think that would help a bit. -- Colin (talk) 19:30, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    Colin I actually meant wider - vertically, so I think we agree;) (Is there an English word for that?). I uploaded a new version where I took a few pixels more off at the top per your suggestion. -- Slaunger (talk) 19:44, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
"taller" -- Colin (talk) 12:57, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

 Oppose as above --LivioAndronico talk 08:18, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:
Result: 4 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /-- ChristianFerrer 17:13, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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