Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Pumps at Dunball February 2014

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 18 May 2014 at 18:48:05 (UTC)

Reason: Important illustration of the effort needed to drain the floods on the Somerset Levels. The movement of the water shows the pumps were working in horrendous weather conditions.
Articles in which this image appears: Winter flooding of 2013–14 on the Somerset Levels, Winter storms of 2013–14 in the United Kingdom
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology/Machinery
Creator: Rodw

Support as nominator – — Rod ^talk 18:48, 8 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 19:30, 8 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Question - Was there anything blocking you to your right? Feels like another 30 cm right would have helped make that pole less distracting. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:54, 9 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The pole on the left was a new pile being driven into the bank as part of it had collapsed with the weight of the pumps. There were workmen and lorries all over the place and for safety reasons stopping access to the site.— Rod ^talk 06:33, 9 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That wasn't the question though. The question was whether there was anything on the right of the frame that stopped you from including it in the photo. I agree with Crisco, the composition seems slightly unbalanced to me. I think that rotating to the right to avoid cutting the right-most pipe off and so that the pole on the left was just out of frame would have been better. Just my opinion though, I know it's not always easy to get the perfect view when access is limited. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 10:23, 9 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I may be wrong, but I think the sky to the top-right is blown, and the horizon is a little tilted. While this is a valuable picture, I'm not convinced that it's FP quality (but I neither support nor oppose for now). J Milburn (talk) 11:46, 9 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Being a citizen of flood prone country, I feel the usage of such pumps in flood season. Godhulii 1985 (talk) 11:01, 10 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:00, 18 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]