Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Kaaba Masjid Haraam Makkah.jpg

Kaaba

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 17 Sep 2020 at 07:27:31 (UTC)

Reason

A difficult place to get good pictures of with a ban on cameras inside the mosque. I managed to get this from a nearby building. Kaaba literally means cube and the angle on this does a great job of showing that.

Articles in which this image appears

Kaaba, Qibla observation by shadows, Muhammad

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture

Creator

Muhammad Mahdi Karim

• Support as nominator – Muhammad(talk) 07:27, 7 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. The pixel count is quite low for FPC, but I'm willing to overlook that given its extreme encyclopedic value as the stable lead image of its topic, the striking visual quality of the shot, the difficulty of getting this shot, and the image degradation that likely comes just from all the air across the distance needed to get this shot. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:45, 7 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose too small and too little definition. 09:00, 7 September 2020 (UTC) Charlesjsharp (talk) 11:44, 7 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose Quality issues - small, blurry at lower left & right. Why would it be difficult to shoot a better photo? --Janke | Talk 10:54, 7 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • I have heard the same argument since 2008. Here, here and and here. --Muhammad(talk) 12:21, 7 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • OK, apparently not easy to take photos there. Struck my oppose. --Janke | Talk 15:08, 7 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support
  FPs 23:22, 7 September 2020 (UTC)[reply
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• Oppose. The pixel count is quite low. --Gnosis (talk) 17:36, 8 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • It meets the criteria of 1500 pixels. --Muhammad(talk) 03:02, 9 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – DreamSparrow ^Chat 03:55, 13 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose – A better camera and lens from the same location can achieve a much better result. This appears to be a cell phone image. --- 
  Coffeeandcrumbs) 11:09, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply
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  • Ouch. I'll wait for the better Camera and better lens. FWIW, this was taken on a Canon 7D with a 400mm L Lens --Muhammad(talk) 13:04, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]