Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland - Jan 2011.jpg

Eilean Donan Castle[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 20 Jan 2011 at 11:58:53 (UTC)

Reason: Surprise! Me again. ;-) Haven't had a lot of time for photography recently, but managed a trip up to Skye in Scotland and was spoilt by the lighting as I passed this castle. It's high resolution with (I think) a pleasing composition showing both the castle and the surrounding Highland landscape quite well.
Articles in which this image appears: Eilean Donan Castle
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Landscapes
Creator: User:Diliff

Support as nominator --Ðiliff «» (Talk) 11:58, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Wow. Shame about the people, in some ways, but that's a pretty brilliant shot. Good to see you back! J Milburn (talk) 12:25, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support, nice! --KFP (contact | edits) 15:58, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Beautiful. I actually think the people help give the image a sense of scale. NauticaShad es 17:17, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Great shot. This can be in the top 10 of the Photo of the Year in Commons.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 17:25, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support outstanding resolution. Purpy Pupple (talk) 18:05, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support This is clearly an outstanding, eye-catching picture with great lighting. Since the subject is “castle”, the crop could be tighter, but it still has the eye-catching quality. Greg L (talk) 18:33, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
P.S. And at 28.7 megapixels, it’s fun to scroll around in. Greg L (talk) 04:35, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support *grabs the passing bandwagon and holds on with both hands* Excellent picture, can't see any reason this shouldn't be promoted... gazhiley.co.uk 09:23, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Per everyone. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 21:01, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- BTW, I just showed my wife this picture and she said we saw it before. (Oh…) We spent a month in the British Isles with our extended family back in ‘77. We traveled the whole loop around England/Scotland/Wales and then did the same thing in Ireland. It got to the point that we’d be nodding off and someone would exclaim “Oh, look! There’s a castle!” I swear, one of us (it might have been me) responded “Well, that’s nothing special; it’s just another castle.” This was back when Starsky and Hutch was a big fav on British telly. British children, upon learning we were Americans invariably had two questions: 1) “Are you rich?” And, 2) “Have you seen many murders?” Greg L (talk) 22:58, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  P.S. The answers were “No” and “No.”
Support The morning light is nice. JJ Harrison (talk) 03:23, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support - per Aaadddaaammm. Anoldtreeok (talk) 13:33, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support we should allow pics like these only if they provide a worth estimate of the castle. Nergaal (talk) 19:37, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Excellent overview of the ensemble and its location. --Elekhh (talk) 00:16, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I'm not a qualified critic, but this thing is just stunning.TCO (talk) 23:28, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Brilliant shot. Booksworm ^Talk? 14:35, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support As per nom. Very nice! SMasters (talk) 08:53, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Wonderful. - Darwinek (talk) 20:00, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Great photography -- thank you! Neutrality^talk 22:50, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland - Jan 2011.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 08:57, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]