Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hoard of silver coins

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 25 Aug 2010 at 22:51:17 (UTC)

Reason: What better way to illustrate our article on hoards? A fine illustration, eyecatching and really makes you want to know more. I don't know how well this will go down, but I thought it was worth a nomination.
Articles in which this image appears: Hoard
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Other, unless anyone has another idea.
Creator: Hans Hillewaert

Support as nominator --J Milburn (talk) 22:51, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Subject doesn’t impress. Photo doesn’t impress. No “stop, stare & click” for me here. Indeed, it is a hoard. But hoard seems sort of a broad-brush subject that would take me to an uninspired Wikipedia article (Hold on while I check the article… Yup. Uninspired Wikipedia article with this one picture.) Quite importantly, this thumb looks like a bunch of old flattened bottle caps at a recycling center until you look at the enlarged image. Moreover, the lighting here is substandard and looks just like what would happen at a recycling center: take the strobe off the camera, have someone hold it a couple of feet away on its extension, and and let it rip into the pile. Now, if this was a picture of a hoard of gold coins, I’d probably vote “support.” Greg L (talk) 00:59, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, to be honest, I'm regretting nominating this now. Not really FP material, not certain what I saw in it. Nomination withdrawn. J Milburn (talk) 11:44, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted : Withdrawn by nominator. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 12:59, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]