Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Tree Stump

Reason: good quality image, adds to the two articles due to its clarity and it being freshly cut. Also reasonably interesting composition
Articles in which this image appears: Dendrochronology, Tree stump
Creator: Childzy ¤ Talk 16:23, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support as nominator --Childzy ¤ Talk 16:23, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I am not an expert but I think the picture's EV for dendrochronology is fairly limited. Firstly, I doubt that dendrochronologists would be interested in studying such a young tree. Secondly, even if they were interested, they probably wouldn't cut the entire tree down, since using a drill to extract a sample (as illustrated in the article) is probably a much easier method and means that samples don't need to be studied in situ. The section of the article that this picture is in talks about 'taking samples' from a variety of sites and discusses the applications of dendrochronology to historical/archaeological research... making this picture of a single, young, fully-felled tree particularly inappropriate.
talk) 21:36, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply
]

Oppose The EV in dendrochronology could have been improved by polishing the stump so that the rings were visible more clearly. More generally I feel that the angle to the stump is too acute, the image is underexposed and the sharpness is borderline.
talk) 09:46, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply
]

Oppose as per Noodle snacks- additionally, I'm not really seeing why the image has to be so dark. J Milburn (talk) 18:12, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Noodlesnacks and J Milburn. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 16:47, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 05:16, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]