Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Fish and chips

Fish and chips

Fish and chips on the seafront at Hunstanton, Norfolk, UK

Reason

Very nice and appetizing picture :)

Articles this image appears in

Fish and chips, Take-out

Creator

User:Solipsist

Nominator

Tomer T

• Support — Tomer T 15:13, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose - Is this picture of fish and chips or a beach? The nerve! ;-) Mrug² 19:18, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

I think that there are a lot of good pictures that thier subject is a beach. What's bad with a picture that its subject is Fish and chips? Tomer T 20:19, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose -Not a very good picture -Nelro
  • Please sign your posts with four tildes: ~~~~. ~ trialsanderrors 21:42, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose Meat-and-potato picture. ~ trialsanderrors 21:42, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
  • What is wrong with a food picture? This one is featured. Tomer T 00:25, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
    • The problem is not that it depicts food, but that it depicts it in a not very attractive, encyclopedic, or technically outstanding way. ~ trialsanderrors 00:46, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose Not only is the horizon tilted, it's also curved. Either make the pic unacceptable as an FP - Adrian Pingstone 22:12, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
• Weak oppose just noticed some worrying DOF problems on the back of the fish. In fact, almost all of the fish is at least a little out of focus.. FPs should be razor sharp --froth^t 05:23, 11 March 2007 (UTC) Neutral Don't know what everyone else is talking about- seems like a nicely enc (and very sharp and high-res) pic of fish n chips. But it doesn't belong on a beach; the beach background makes no sense. Put it in a fast food place or something --froth^T 18:31, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Froth, in many parts of the world where fish and chips is most common (ie UK and Australia, not so much the United States), it is pretty common to have them at or on the beach. See the image caption in the fish and chips article. Your own American bias may place fish and chips in a fast food restaurant but that isn't necessarily the case, particularly since this is a British image. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 21:35, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
    • Hm, I didn't know that but I was referring to the incongruity of having fast food just sitting alone near the beach, as if it washed up on shore or grows naturally in nature or something. Something like this provides a more realistic context --froth^t 05:21, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
• Support. I'm going to buck the trend here and support it. Ideally it could be higher res and the horizon could be straightened somewhat but it isn't vital since it is OOF and of secondary importance to the beach and the foreground. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 21:35, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose', the composition doesn't work for me, why are the fish and chips just sitting there on the foreshore, and where are the seagulls?--Peta 00:21, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
• Support-don't know why, made me laugh (Also support beause it is a very original, unique pic)Penubag 02:50, 12 March 2007 (UTC)penubag
• Support, please, you're makin' me hungry. I actually didn't know what fish and chips looked like before seeing this picture, so very encyclopedic. --Lewk_of_Serthic _contrib ^talk 18:06, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose. The light on the sunward side of the food seems too bright. Plus the composition seems odd to me. This just looks like someone left their order on a wall or something. howcheng {chat} 23:35, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose I agree that the light seems too bright. I think the beach is also very distracting. ShadowHalo 23:53, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose The beach is blurry enough not to be the focus of the picture, but is also clear enough to distract the viewer from the fish and chips. Better focusing would improve the picture. -- Sturgeonman 20:45, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose Interesting shot, but no FP material. -Wutschwlllm 13:25, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
• Comment. I love it when I find fish and chips sitting on the beach! Kaldari 21:31, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 08:02, 16 March 2007 (UTC)