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Featured picture candidates

Featured picture candidates are images that the community will vote on, to determine whether or not they will be highlighted as some of the finest on Commons. This page lists the candidates to become featured pictures. The picture of the day images are selected from featured pictures.

Old candidates for Featured pictures are listed here. There are also chronological lists of featured pictures: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and current month.

For another overview of our finest pictures, take a look at our annual picture of the year election.

Formal things

Nominating

Guidelines for nominators

Please read the complete guidelines before nominating.

This is a summary of what to look for when submitting and reviewing FP candidates:

  • Licensing – Images licensed with solely "GFDL" or "GFDL and an NC-only license" are not acceptable due the restrictions placed on re-use by these licenses.
  • Resolution – Raster images of lower resolution than 2 million pixels (pixels, not bytes) are typically rejected unless there are strong mitigating reasons. This does not apply to vector graphics (SVGs).
    • Graphics on Commons are not only viewed on conventional computer screens. They may be used in high-resolution print versions, and the images may be cropped to focus on portions of the image. See Commons:Why we need high resolution media for more information.
  • Scans – While not official policy, Help:Scanning provides advice on the preparation of various types of images that may be useful.
  • General quality – pictures being nominated should be of high technical quality.
  • Digital manipulations must not deceive the viewer. Digital manipulation for the purpose of correcting flaws in an image is generally acceptable, provided it is limited, well-done, and not intended to deceive.
    • For photographs, typical acceptable manipulations include cropping, perspective correction, sharpening/blurring, and color/exposure correction. More extensive manipulations, such as removal of distracting background elements, should be clearly described in the image text, by means of the {{Retouched picture}} template. Undescribed or mis-described manipulations which cause the main subject to be misrepresented are never acceptable. For images made from more than one photo, you can use the {{Panorama}} or {{Focus stacked image}} templates.
    • For historic images, acceptable manipulations might include digitally fixing rips, removal of stains, cleanup of dirt, and, for mass-produced artworks such as engravings, removal of flaws inherent to the particular reproduction, such as over-inking. Careful color adjustments may be used to bring out the original work from the signs of ageing, though care should be taken to restore a natural appearance. The original artistic intent should be considered when deciding whether it is appropriate to make a change. Edits to historic material should be documented in detail within the file description, and an unedited version should be uploaded and cross linked for comparison.
  • Value – our main goal is to feature most valuable pictures from all others. Pictures should be in some way special, so please be aware that:
    • almost all sunsets are aesthetically pleasing, and most such pictures are not in essence different from others,
    • night-shots are pretty but normally more details can be shown on pictures taken at daytime,
    • beautiful does not always mean valuable.
Artworks, illustrations, and historical documents

There are many different types of non-photographic media, including engravings, watercolors, paintings, etchings, and various others. Hence, it is difficult to set hard-and-fast guidelines. However, generally speaking, works can be divided into three types: Those that can be scanned, those that must be photographed, and those specifically created to illustrate a subject.

Works that must be photographed include most paintings, sculptures, works too delicate or too unique to allow them to be put on a scanner, and so on. For these, the requirements for photography, below, may be mostly followed; however, it should be noted that photographs which cut off part of the original painting are generally not considered featurable.

Works that may be scanned include most works created by processes that allow for mass distribution − for instance, illustrations published with novels. For these, it is generally accepted that a certain amount of extra manipulation is permissible to remove flaws inherent to one copy of the work, since the particular copy – of which hundreds, or even thousands of copies also exist – is not so important as the work itself.

Works created to serve a purpose include diagrams, scientific illustrations, and demonstrations of contemporary artistic styles. For these, the main requirement is that they serve their purpose well.

Provided the reproduction is of high quality, an artwork generally only needs one of the following four things to be featurable:

  • Notable in its own right: Works by major artists, or works that are otherwise notable, such as the subjects of a controversy.
  • Of high artistic merit: Works which, while not particularly well known, are nonetheless wonderful examples of their particular type or school of art.
  • Of high historic merit: The historical method values very early illustrations of scenes and events over later ones. Hence, a work of poor quality depicting a contemporaneous historical event can be nonetheless important, even if the artistic merit is relatively low. Likewise, scans or photographs of important documents – which may not be at all artistic – nonetheless may be highly valuable if the documents are historically significant. The reason for the image's historical importance should be briefly stated in the nomination, for those reviewers unfamiliar with the subject.
  • Of high illustrative merit: Works that illustrate or help explain notable subjects, for instance, illustrations of books, scientific subjects, or technical processes. The amount of artistic merit required for these will vary by subject, but, for instance, an illustration that makes the working of a complicated piece of machinery very clear need not be notable as a piece of artwork as well, whereas an illustration for a book might well be expected to reach much higher artistic standards.

Digital restorations must also be well documented. An unedited version of the image should be uploaded locally, when possible, and cross-linked from the file description page. Edit notes should be specified in detail, such as "Rotated and cropped. Dirt, scratches, and stains removed. Histogram adjusted and colors balanced."

Photographs

On the technical side, we have focus, exposure, composition, movement control and depth of field.

  • Focus – every important object in the picture should normally be sharp.
  • Exposure refers to the shutter diaphragm combination that renders an image with a tonal curve that ideally is able to represent in acceptable detail shadows and highlights within the image. This is called latitude. Images can be on the low side of the tonal curve (low range), the middle (middle range) or high side (upper range). Lack of shadow detail is not necessarily a negative characteristic. In fact, it can be part of the desired effect. Burned highlights in large areas are a distracting element.
  • Composition refers to the arrangement of the elements within the image. The "Rule of thirds" is one useful guideline. Horizons should almost never be placed in the middle, where they "cut" the image in half. Often, a horizon creating a top or bottom third of the space works better. The main idea is to use space to create a dynamic image.
    • Foreground and background – foreground and background objects may be distracting. You should check that something in front of the subject doesn't hide important elements and that something in background doesn't spoil the composition (for example that the streetlight doesn't "stand" on someone's head).
  • Movement control refers to the manner in which motion is represented in the image. Motion can be frozen or blurred. Neither one is better than the other. It is the intention of representation. Movement is relative within the objects of the image. For example, photographing a race car that appears frozen in relation to the background does not give us a sense of speed or motion, so technique dictates to represent the car in a frozen manner but with a blurred background, thus creating the sense of motion, this is called "panning". On the other hand, representing a basketball player in a high jump frozen in relation to everything else, due to the "unnatural" nature of the pose would be a good photograph.
  • Depth of field (DOF) refers to the area in focus in front of and beyond main subject. Depth of field is chosen according to the specific needs of every picture. Large or small DOF can either way add or subtract to the quality of the image. Low depth of field can be used to bring attention to the main subject, separating it from the general environment. High depth of field can be used to emphasize space. Short focal length lenses (wide angles) yield large DOF, and vice versa, long focal lenses (telephotos) have shallow DOF. Small apertures yield large DOF and conversely, large apertures yield shallow DOF.

On the graphic elements we have shape, volume, color, texture, perspective, balance, proportion, noise, etc.

  • Shape refers to the contour of the main subjects.
  • Volume refers to the three dimensional quality of the object. This is accomplished using side light. Contrary to general belief, front lighting is not the best light. It tends to flatten subject. Best light of day is early morning or late afternoon.
  • Color is important. Oversaturated colors are not good.
  • Texture refers to the quality of the surface of the subject. It is enhanced by side lighting… it is the "feel" to the touch.
  • Perspective refers to the "angle" accompanied by lines that disappear into a vanishing point that may or may not be inside the image.
  • Balance refers to the arrangement of subjects within the image that can either give equal weight or appear to be heavier on one side.
  • Proportion refers to the relation of size of objects in picture. Generally, we tend to represent small objects small in relation to others, but a good technique is to represent small objects large contrary to natural size relationship. For example, a small flower is given preponderance over a large mountain…. This is called inversion of scales.
Not all elements must be present. Some photographs can be judged on individual characteristics, that is, an image can be about color or texture, or color AND texture, etc.
  • Noise refers to unwanted corruption of color brightness and quality and can be caused by underexposure. It is not a desirable quality and can be grounds for opposition.
  • Symbolic meaning or relevance … Opinion wars can begin here … A bad picture of a very difficult subject is better than a good picture of an ordinary subject. A good picture of a difficult subject is an extraordinary photograph.
Images can be culturally biased by the photographer and/or the observer. The meaning of the image should be judged according to the cultural context of the image, not by the cultural context of the observer. An image "speaks" to people, and it has the capacity to evoke emotion such as tenderness, rage, rejection, happiness, sadness, etc. Good photographs are not limited to evoking pleasant sensations …

You will maximise the chances of your nominations succeeding if you read the complete guidelines before nominating.

Video and audio

Please nominate videos, sounds, music, etc. at Commons:Featured media candidates.

Set nominations

If a group of images are thematically connected in a direct and obvious way, they can be nominated together as a set. A set should fall under one of the following types:

  • Faithful digital reproductions of works notable in their own right, which the original author clearly intended to be viewed as a set. Examples: pages in a pamphlet, crops (puzzle pieces) of a prohibitively large scan, a pair of pendant paintings. Not acceptable: Arbitrary selection of sample works by an artist.
  • A sequence of images showing the passage of time. They could depict frames of a moving/changing object or a static object during different times of day or different seasons. Examples: diagrams illustrating a process, steps of a dance, metamorphosis of an insect, maps/drawings/photos of the same subject over the years (frame of view should be more or less the same).
  • A group of images depicting the same subject from different viewpoints, preferably taken under the same lighting conditions when possible. Examples: Exterior and interior of a building, different facades of a building, different interior views, obverse and inverse of a banknote/coin. Not acceptable: A selection of different rooms in a skyscraper, the facade of a church plus an organ, any images of fundamentally different scopes.
  • A group of images which show all possible variations of a particular class of object. Examples: Male and female versions of an animal (preferably in the same setting), all known species of a genus. Not acceptable: A few breeds of cats (unless they share a defining characteristic and represent all possible examples of that).


Adding a new nomination

If you believe that you have found or created an image that could be considered valuable, with appropriate name, quality, image description, categories and licensing, then do the following.

Step 1: copy the image name into this box, after the text already present in the box, for example, Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Your image filename.jpg. Then click on the "create new nomination" button.

All single files:

For renominations, simply add /2 after the filename. For example, Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Foo.jpg/2

All set nomination pages should begin "Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/", e.g. "Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/My Nomination".


Step 2: follow the instructions on the page that you are taken to, and save that page.

Step 3: manually insert a link to the created page at the top of Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list: Click here, and add the following line to the TOP of the nominations list:

{{Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Your image filename.jpg}}

Galleries and FP categories: Please add a gallery page and section heading from the list at Commons FP galleries. Write the code as Page name#Section heading. For example: Commons:Featured pictures/Sports#Individual sports An image will only appear ONE time in the galleries. After a successful nomination, the image can be placed in several of the Featured pictures categories.

Optional: if you are not the creator of the image, please notify them using {{subst:FPC-notice|Your image filename.jpg}} -- ~~~~.

Note: Do not add an 'Alternative' image when you create a nomination. Selecting the best image is part of the nomination process. Alternatives are for a different crop or post-processing of the original image, or a closely related image from the same photo session (limited to 1 per nomination), if they are suggested by voters.

Voting

Editors whose accounts have at least 10 days and 50 edits can vote. Everybody can vote for their own nominations. Anonymous (IP) votes are not allowed.

You may use the following templates:

  • {{Support}} ( Support),
  • {{Oppose}} ( Oppose),
  • {{Neutral}} ( Neutral),
  • {{Comment}} ( Comment),
  • {{Info}} ( Info),
  • {{Question}} ( Question),
  • {{Request}} ( Request).

You may indicate that the image has no chance of success with the template {{FPX|reason - ~~~~}}, where reason explains why the image is clearly unacceptable as a FP. The template can only be used when there are no support votes other than the one from the nominator.

A well-written review helps participants (photographers, nominators and reviewers) improve their skills by providing insight into the strengths and weaknesses of a picture. Explain your reasoning, especially when opposing a candidate (which has been carefully selected by the author/nominator). English is the most widely understood language on Commons, but any language may be used in your review. A helpful review will often reference one or more of the criteria listed above.

Unhelpful reasons for opposing include:

  • No reason
  • "I don't like it" and other empty assessments
  • "You can do better" and other criticisms of the author/nominator rather than the image

Remember also to put your signature (~~~~).

Over time, featured picture standards change. It may be decided that for some pictures which were formerly "good enough", this is no longer the case. This is for listing an image which you believe no longer deserves to be a featured picture. For these, vote:

Text to use Displays as Meaning
{{Keep}}  Keep It deserves to remain a featured picture.
{{Delist}}  Delist It does not deserve to be a featured picture anymore.

This can also be used for cases in which a previous version of an image was promoted to FP, but a newer version of the image has been made and is believed to be superior to the old version, e.g. a newly edited version of a photo or a new scan of a historical image. In particular, it is not intended for replacing older photos of a particular subject with newer photos of the same subject, or in any other case where the current FP and the proposed replacement are essentially different images. For these nominations, vote:

Text to use Displays as Meaning
{{Keep}}  Keep Do not replace the old image with the new image as a FP.
{{Delistandreplace}}  Delist and replace Replace the current FP with the proposed replacement.

If you believe that some picture no longer meets the criteria for FP, you can nominate it for delisting, copying the image name into this box, after the text already present in the box:


In the new delisting nomination page just created you should include:

  • Information on the origin of the image (creator, uploader);
  • A link to the original FP nomination (it will appear under "Links" on the image description page);
  • Your reasons for nominating the image and your username.

After that, you have to manually insert a link to the created page at the top of Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list.

As a courtesy, leave an informative note on the talk page(s) of the original creator, uploader(s), and nominator with a link to the delisting candidate. {{subst:FPC-notice-removal}} can be used for this purpose.

General rules

  1. The voting period is 9 complete days counted from the nomination. After the end of this period the result will be determined. Votes added on day 10 and after are not counted.
  2. Nominations by anonymous contributors are welcome.
  3. Contributions to discussion by anonymous contributors are welcome.
  4. Only registered contributors whose Commons accounts have at least 10 days and 50 edits can vote. Exception: registered users can always vote in their own nominations no matter the account age and number of edits.
  5. Nominations do not count as votes. Support must be explicitly stated.
  6. Nominators and authors can withdraw their nominated pictures at any time. This is done by adding the following template: {{Withdraw}} ~~~~. Also, remember that if more than one version is nominated, you should explicitly state which version you are withdrawing.
  7. Remember, the goal of the Wikimedia Commons project is to provide a central repository for free images to be used by all Wikimedia projects, including possible future projects. This is not simply a repository for Wikipedia images, so images should not be judged here on their suitability for that project.
  8. Rules of the 5th day based on vote counts on day number 5 (day of nomination + 5):
    1. Pictures are speedy declined if they have fewer than two support votes.
    2. Pictures are speedy promoted if they have 10 support votes or more and no oppose votes. (Note that if it takes more than five days to reach this threshold, the picture can be promoted as soon as it is reached.) This does not apply to nominations containing at least one ‘Alternative’ image – because it is possible that another image can overtake the one in the lead during the last days, such nominations are never closed early.
    3. Once either speedy criterion is reached, the voting period is considered closed, and no more votes may be added.
  9. Pictures tagged {{FPX}} may be removed from the list 24 hours after the tag was applied, provided there are no support votes other than that of the nominator.
  10. Pictures tagged {{FPD}} (FP-Denied) may be removed from the list 24 hours after the tag was applied.
  11. Only two active nominations by the same user (that is, nominations under review and not yet closed) are allowed. The main purpose of this measure is to contribute to a better average quality of nominations, by driving nominators/creators to choose carefully the pictures presented to the forum.

Featuring and delisting rules

A candidate will become a featured picture in compliance with following conditions:

  1. Appropriate license (of course)
  2. At least seven  Support votes (or 7  Delist votes for a delist) at the end of nine days
  3. Ratio of supporting/opposing votes at least 2/1 (a two-thirds majority); same for delist/keep votes
  4. Two different versions of the same picture cannot both be featured, but only the one with higher level of support, as determined by the closer. Whenever the closer is not sure which version has consensus to be featured, they should attempt to contact the voters to clarify their opinions if not clear from the nomination page.
  5. Only two active delisting nominations per user, which is in addition to the limit of two active regular nominations.

The delisting rules are the same as those for FPs, with voting taking place over the same time period. The rule of the 5th day is applied to delisting candidates that have received no votes to delist, other than that of the proposer, by day 5.

The FPCBot handles the vote counting and closing in most cases, current exceptions are candidates containing multiple versions of the image as well as FPXed and withdrawn nominations. Any experienced user may close the requests not handled by the bot. For instructions on how to close nominations, see Commons:Featured picture candidates/What to do after voting is finished. Also note that there is a manual review stage between when the bot has counted the votes and before the nomination is finally closed by the bot; this manual review can be done by any user familiar with the voting rules.

Above all, be polite

Please don't forget that the image you are judging is somebody's work. Avoid using phrases like "it looks terrible" and "I hate it". If you must oppose, please do so with consideration. Also remember that your command of English might not be the same as someone else's. Choose your words with care.

Happy judging… and remember… all rules can be broken.

See also

Table of contents

List may contain works considered Not Safe for Work (nudity).

Nominators are requested, out of courtesy, to include the {{Nsfw}} template with such images. Users may select the gadget in user preferences "Deferred display of images tagged with {{Nsfw}} on COM:FPC" to enable the template's effect of hiding the image until selected.

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File:Ruby-crowned kinglet (14077).jpg

Voting period ends on 14 Nov 2025 at 03:32:29 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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Ruby-crowned kinglet

File:Chor Minor mosque (Чор-Минор, Бухара).jpg

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Chor Minor mosque

File:Buxoro arki. Arxeologik muzey ichki bezaklaridan biri 03.jpg

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One of the wall decorations of the Subhonquli Khan Mosque, Bukhara, Uzbekistan.

File:Бухара, Кукельдаш, узор двери.jpg

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Part of a carved wooden entrance door of Kukeldash madrasa. Bukhara, Uzbekistan.

File:Rietburg - Panorama 01.jpg

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View from the Rietburg to the Upper Rhine Plain

File:Vera C Rubin Observatory in the Snow (IMG 0315-CC).jpg

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Vera C. Rubin Observatory on Cerro Pachón during a snowy day

File:Pholiota aurivella 2018 G2.jpg

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Golden Scalycap mushroom (Pholiota aurivella) in clusters

File:William Wallace Statue, Aberdeen.jpg

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File:Ksar Chenini vue 6.jpg

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File:Albert Einstein Head cleaned.jpg

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Albert Einstein portrait by Oren Jack Turner (1947)

File:Goose-Sitia-Crete-1.jpg

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Domesticated Goose. Sitia, Crete, Greece.

File:Knoblauch Blüte focus stack-20250713-RM-111019.jpg

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Flower of a garlic plant in a garden in Bavaria

File:Burg Pfalzgrafenstein (Ansicht von Westen).jpg

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Pfalzgrafenstein castle, seen from the west

File:Pez ballesta (Sufflamen chrysopterum), Anilao, Filipinas, 2023-08-23, DD 178.jpg

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Halfmoon triggerfish (Sufflamen chrysopterum), Anilao, Philippines
  • Indeed, hence the text Voting period ends on 12 Nov 2025 at 18:55:52 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule). The statement about the fifth-day rule is a recent addition designed to make it clear that Poco's understanding in this case is correct. Cmao20 (talk) 11:01, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Pipevine swallowtail female (41733).jpg

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Female pipevine swallowtail fluttering at a flower

File:Neer Mahal, the water palace of Tripura 12.jpg

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Neermahal also known as Twijilikma Nuyung (lit. 'Water Palace') is a former royal palace of Tripura Kingdom, built by Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya bahadur in 1930.

File:American kestrel (Falco sparverius cinnamominus) male Leona Amarga.jpg

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American kestrel (Falco sparverius cinnamominus) male

File:NewForestPonies sunrise.jpg

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File:De Adriaan - Haarlem.jpg

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File:Shop ceiling Tezontepec boots 2025.jpg

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Are you talking about reducing the aperture or increasing the exposure time?, i was shooting without tripode --Cvmontuy (talk) 16:57, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Igreja da Ordem Terceira do Carmo São Cristóvão 20220422-5128.jpg

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I agree. heylenny (talk/edits) 22:03, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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File:EDERSON BRITO ARTESANATO BOA VISTA RR (41032996462) (cropped).jpg

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Handcraft depicting indigenous women in Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil

File:Venezia - Punta della Dogana - 2024-09-24 07-52-02 001.jpg

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Punta della Dogana in Venice

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Pothupara Waterfalls near Munnar, Kerala, India

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SHORT DESCRIPTION

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Cemetery church in Königsberg in Bayern

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Frederic Thesiger, Lord Chelmsford

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The Gaumont Co. L'T'D. London presents the motion picture records of the undying story of Capt. Scott and animal life in the Antarctic
Adam Cuerden fixed, and scratches too, thanks! --Ezarateesteban 16:53, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Guanaco (Lama guanicoe)

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View up to the Borsigturm in Berlin-Tegel, Reinickendorf, Berlin, Germany

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A moody morning in Drenthe near Aalden. Visible are crepuscular rays. A diffraction effect can also be seen on the leaves on the left side, causing them to appear slightly bluish.

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Ksar Zemmour by a sunset moment gives the person seeing the sight a feeling of sun kissed land... That is why I am nominting it for Featured pictures. Before those Ksars were warehouses to preserve wheat and olive oil and goods of a tribe.

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An Eurasian blue tit

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A juvenile Egyptian goose

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Belltower, Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy.
 Comment I uploaded a new image, I apologize because this should have been the correct one, which highlights the details of the bell tower roof... --Terragio67 (talk) 08:10, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Celosia argentea photographed in the Philippines

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Three domes of Oia in Santorini

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Cairns on Lake Braies, South Tyrol
  •  Comment I believe the right place for the disclaimer is in Cairn#Concerns. I fully agree that rock stacks are abuse of natural places, and have contributed knocking them down on my trips. They are particularly annoying in the wilderness. —kallerna (talk) 20:15, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    No harm in having the warning in several places, like on the file page too. Especially if this goes on to be a POTD. The warning does not appear on every language wiki about cairns, Italian wiki has no problem with creating these piles and other wikis use their "cairn page" as a disambiguation page. People usually don't follow links to read articles related to the photo. It's like having the warning about not taking photos on rail tracks; people don't mind having them on the individual file pages. --Cart (talk) 21:33, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
POTD could be used to raise awareness on the problem of cairns eg. on Earth Day. Feel free to edit the file page as needed. —kallerna (talk) 21:59, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If this wasn't nominated at FPC then the issue would solve itself. We had a previous FPC which I said wasn't a proper cairn, but I was told I was wrong. Charlesjsharp (talk) 00:57, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support. I'm not too bothered by the cairns/rockpiles. JayCubby (talk) 16:31, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    They are ok to build in some places, like already damaged beaches next to the hotel at some well-used tourist location. The problem is that people take the same practice to places where moving stones will expose the topsoil to erosion. There are many sites in northern countries where plants and lichens grow slowly, and rearranging stones will impact the micro-fauna negatively. It's not just about the eyesore they are at pristine locations. We need to not leave "I was here!" calling cards wherever humans roam. --Cart (talk) 18:36, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Beautiful and good composition. FP to me. —UnpetitproleX (Talk) 17:00, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --MZaplotnik(talk) 11:43, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support For what it's worth, it's a very good photo and I'll stick to my principle that we need good photos of despicable things too for a good encyclopedia. I've sorted out the categories for these items and added a caution text. Photo is now also in the right section of the right article. --Cart (talk) 13:07, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Excellent composition - pristine alpine beauty contrasted with the human trace of cairns. This image documents the problematic practice clearly because it's aesthetically strong. Encyclopedically valuable. FP for me. -- Radomianin (talk) 19:22, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support. heylenny (talk/edits) 22:24, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I think several motifs on this picture (e.g. the cairns, the lake and the mountains) are featurable, but the lighting is not ideal and the overall composition doesn't work. It looks like the cairns and the lake are randomly cropped, and the peak far away in the background is dominated by the distracting large mountain on the left. If the cairns are the primary subject of this photo, you should've tried to make it more prominent (note that the cairns are barely a fifth of the picture and boxed into the bottom right corner). Furthermore, as a result of the suboptimal lighting, some of the cairns are overexposed, the colours around the sky and the peak look washed out, and the mountain on the left is under shadow. You would've probably got a much better composition with more pleasant light had you changed your angle of view by 90° counterclockwise (from southeastern to northeastern direction) and applied the rule of thirds to keep the cairns as the main subject in the lower third. --Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 11:35, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Cmao20 (talk) 03:50, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Црква „Св. Димитриј“ - Бајловце 5.jpg

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The secondary entrance of St. Demetrius Church in the village of Bajlovce half-covered by hedgegrow

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Saint Paraskeva church, Čarnaŭčycy, Brest region

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Lugo town hall, Spain

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Gilded sapphire in flight in Encontro das Águas State Park

File:2022-08-27 04 Silhouette sculpture of Norsemen above L'Anse aux Meadows, NFL CAN.jpg

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Norse silhouette sculpture above L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site, Newfoundland Canada
This sculpture commemorates the arrival of the Vikings to North America in approximately 1021 and was designed by New Brunswick artist, Karen Van Niekerk. It is made of corten steel, 10 millimeters thick and approximately 2.4 meters high.
The Norse figures look southeast to symbolize their intent to use L’Anse aux Meadows as a base camp to explore further south from Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula.
L'Anse aux Meadows is both a Canadian Historic Site and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
 Comment The sculpture sits on a hill overlooking the valley where the L’Anse aux Meadows base camp is located. I made other image versions that show the sculpture in context but feel this one works best for FP.
Made of corten steel, the sculpture is not black but a dark oxidized brown. The Norse brought weapons of corten steel with them. There were no clashes with the native peoples in Newfoundland, but steel weaponry would provide a significant advantage.
Silhouettes have a long tradition as an art form but when used as a exterior sculpture monument, strongly suggest past history connected to the site. A similar silhouette sculpture that comes to mind is the pilgrims on the Alto del Perdón (Hill of Forgiveness) overlooking Paloma, on the Camino de Santiago (Way of St. James) in Navarra, Spain.
A little extra - if you like a good movie where this Camino peregrino sculpture appears, the 2010 drama “The Way”, directed and written by Emilio Estevez, is worth watching. --GRDN711 (talk) 03:15, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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1985 portrait of the neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks
Confirmed results:
Result: 1 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 05:18, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

IC 10 (near infrared and visible light)

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  • The nearby starburst galaxy IC 10 in visible light with enhanced H-alpha emission (HaRGB palette). Star forming regions are visible in pink. Thick interstellar dust in the Milky Way dims and reddens IC 10.
    The nearby starburst galaxy IC 10 in visible light with enhanced H-alpha emission (HaRGB palette). Star forming regions are visible in pink. Thick interstellar dust in the Milky Way dims and reddens IC 10.
  • IC 10 in a mixture of near infrared and visible light with enhanced H-alpha emission (HaIRG palette). Star forming regions are green, and some cool red M-type stars appear significantly brighter than in the HaRGB image.
    IC 10 in a mixture of near infrared and visible light with enhanced H-alpha emission (HaIRG palette). Star forming regions are green, and some cool red M-type stars appear significantly brighter than in the HaRGB image.

File:Pez ángel de barra amarilla (Pomacanthus maculosus), islas Ad Dimaniyat, Omán, 2024-08-15, DD 48.jpg

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Yellowbar angelfish (Pomacanthus maculosus), Ad Dimaniyat Islands, Oman

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Tuman Oko complex, Samarkand

File:Chital in Sundarbans National Park July 2025 by Tisha Mukherjee 02.jpg

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Chital (Axis axis) fawn
  • I wouldn't choose 1/625 for a moving animal but I know nothing about 800mm lenses on tripods. Perhaps the lens is the cause of the softness, or perhaps the focus was missed? We don't always have time to select the ideal settings and I do use auto ISO when there are dark and lighter areas. Auto ISO doesn't always do what you want. Charlesjsharp (talk) 17:57, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I was doing bird photography that's why exposure time 1/1,250 sec was set and suddenly found this dear while on a boat. The lens is a budget one and has a fixed aperture of f11 and as @Charlesjsharp: said, I keep the ISO on auto too. This is a handheld shot from a moving boat, no tripod was used. I just described the scenario. Tisha Mukherjee (talk) 06:33, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Info I have two user settings on my camera: U1 is for perched birds and stationary/slow-moving animals (f/8, auto ISO, center metering, spot focus) and U3 for birds in flight (1/1600 s, spot metering, tracking auto-focus, higher range on auto ISO). It takes barely a second to switch the mode dial to one of these modes. For slow-moving animals, I find that U1 with panning works well. --Tagooty (talk) 14:31, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, I will try to utilize those. Tisha Mukherjee (talk) 06:59, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It was shot with a Canon RF 800mm f/11 lens, so that's the largest aperture you have to work with - there's no f/8 for that lens, nor for any 800mm lens much under the price of a new car. Acroterion (talk) 23:55, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks that's useful information.  Support then. Yann (talk) 16:48, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:20250708 Mirador de Chirche 04.jpg

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A Canary Island Pine at the Mirador de Chirche in Chirche, Tenerife, Spain

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Cologne Station at nighttime

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A wall of an old house in the village of Kanarevo
Променливо облачно се погоди, но барем нема сенка. --Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 11:31, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Cologne Cathedral, seen from the street Burgmauer
  •  Comment Exactly, a photographer’s bag should always include at least a crane with a wrecking ball, a tank plus ammunition, and some stocks of explosive to get rid of misplaced cars, ugly buildings and other distracting stuff. When you first demolish all the mediocre rubbish around it, you can take much better photos of Cologne Cathedral. – Aristeas (talk) 15:03, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • True - some photographers just lack the demolition permit for better compositions :D -- Radomianin (talk) 19:40, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Explanation for secret services plus other people and AI agents who/which don’t understand irony and sarcasm: the previous comment was a joke. – To state it plainly: It’s not the photographer’s guilt that large parts of Cologne are not exactly beautiful and do not provide a suitable setting for the wonderful Cathedral and other churches. Just like in other cities, these are the consequences of the destruction in World War II and of the rapid, often less than aesthetically pleasing rebuilding in the 1950s and 1960s. Photographing a magnificent building, a pretty person, etc. against an elegant or neutral background is rather easy; things get exciting in reality, which often doesn’t provide perfect circumstances and backcloths. Then the art of photography consists in the ability to make the best of difficult situations and to incorporate even ugly surroundings into the picture through clever composition in such a way that it does not destroy the beauty and dignity of the subject, but rather highlights it through the contrast, just as a diamond shines even brighter in the dark mud. This has been achieved brilliantly in this photograph, which is why I consider it all the more important. – Aristeas (talk) 15:17, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
LOL heylenny (talk/edits) 17:24, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Ponte di Rialto Venice 1.jpg

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Ponte di Rialto, Venice
The idea is to light up the bridge. This kind of light is only possible during this time of the year, when the sunset light is parallel with Grande Canal. I've lived in Venice a year, and it is the best kind of illumination I've seen on Rialto. —kallerna (talk) 16:46, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
As I mentioned, the light is what stood out to me, though I do think some of the foreground water could be cropped for a compo with the bridge in center. But it is also good to me as is. UnpetitproleX (Talk) 22:18, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The idea of highlighting the bridge with light is a good one. I noticed that too. I just think the area in shadow is too large. --XRay 💬 06:11, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
IMO the aspect ratio becames too wide with the proposed crop. The water is anyways reflecting the palazzos of Grand Canal, so the shadow is not too dark. However, no shadows on the summer view. —kallerna (talk) 10:07, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:6 Śiva and Pārvatī seated on a terrace. 1800 (circa) BM.jpg

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Śiva and Pārvatī seated on a terrace. Jaipur school, Rajasthani painting, circa 1800
Discussion about sourcing and colour grading
* Comment Love this. But a couple things... description could use more detail (medium, ascension number). More problematically, the source link does not lead to the version of the image available on Commons. The colours in the BM version are also quite different to the ones uploaded here (BM version is more yellowed). Which is more accurate? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:50, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Updated the description, added genre, material etc. I actually don't think the image is the BM one, this is higher resolution than available there. Perhaps @Aavindraa: could tell us? UnpetitproleX (Talk) 21:45, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    The source is from BM. It's possible that they took down the source, which I've noticed in the past. As for the yellowing, I may have applied a color correction, I can't remember and did not note it on the description.Aavindraa (talk) 22:03, 28 October 2025 (UTC)}}[reply]
    Just to be clear, if WB was adjusted, in my view that is acceptable if a faithful reproduction. According to the BM itself, the colours in pictures uploaded may not be true to life, and our version does appear more 'natural' to me. UnpetitproleX (Talk) 21:54, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm still cautious; the third version comes with a colour card to better reflect the original colours. This one is not as yellow as the first version, but still different than our version. Given that we want our FPs to reflect the best Commons has to offer, sourcing should be solid... and not knowing the true source of this version, the criteria aren't met.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:33, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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      • The # should be replaced by 1 for the first image nominated that month, and counts up after that. Have a look at the other noms on that page for examples.
      • You may simplify this if multiple things were done by the same user. E.g.: File:xxxxx.jpg|# '''Headline'''<br>created, uploaded, and nominated by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]]
    • Add == FP promotion ==
      {{FPpromotion|File:XXXXX.jpg}} to the talk page of the nominator. For set nominations, use:
      == Set Promoted to FP ==
      <gallery>
      File:XXXXXX.jpg
      File:XXXXXX.jpg
      </gallery>
      {{FPpromotionSet2|YYYYY}}      , using the names of the set files instead of the XXXXXX and the title of the set instead of YYYYY.
    • Add == FP promotion ==
      {{FPpromotedUploader|File:XXXXX.jpg}} to the talk page of the user who has uploaded the image, if that user is not the same as the nominator.
    • Add == FP promotion ==
      {{FPpromotedCreator|File:XXXXX.jpg}} to the talk page of the creator, if the author is a different Commons user than nominator and uploader.
  5. As the last step (whether the image is featured or not; including {{FPX}}ed, {{FPD}}ed and withdrawn nominations), open Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list, click on [edit], and find the transclusion of the nomination you've just finished closing. It will be of the form:
    {{Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:XXXXX.jpg}}
    Copy it to the bottom of Commons:Featured picture candidates/Log/November 2025), save that page, and remove it from the candidate list.

Closing a delisting request

  1. In Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list click on the title/link of the candidate image, then [edit].
    Add the result of the voting at the bottom (on a new line):
    {{FPC-delist-results-reviewed|delist=x|keep=x|neutral=x|delisted=yes/no|sig=~~~~}}
    (for example see Commons:Featured picture candidates/removal/File:Ensifera ensifera (22271195865).jpg)
  2. Also edit the title of the delisting candidate image template and add after the image tag
    delisted or not delisted
    For example:
    === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]] === becomes === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]], delisted ===
  3. Move the actual template from Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list to the bottom of the actual month page on Commons:Featured picture candidates/Log/November 2025.
  4. If the outcome was not delisted, stop here. If it is delisted:
    1. Remove the picture from Commons:Featured pictures, list and any subpages.
    2. Edit the picture's description as follows:
      1. In the {{Assessments}} template on the image description page, change featured=1 to featured=2 (do not change anything related to its status in other featured picture processes). If the image description page uses the old {{Featured picture}} template, replace it with {{Assessments|featured=2}}.
      2. Remove the image from all categories beginning with "Featured [pictures]" (example: Featured night photography, Featured pictures from Wiki Loves Monuments 2016, Featured pictures of Paris).
      3. Remove the "Commons quality assessment" claim (P6731) "Wikimedia Commons featured picture" from the picture's Structured data.
    3. Add a delisting-comment to the original entry in chronological list of featured pictures in bold-face, e. g. delisted 2007-07-19 (1-6) with (1-6) meaning 1 keep and 6 delist votes (change as appropriate). The picture must not be removed from the chronological list.
  5. If this is a Delist and Replace, the delisting and promotion must both be done manually. To do the promotion, follow the steps in the above section. Note that the assessment tag on the file page and the promotion tag on the nominator's talk page won't pick up the /replace subpage that these nominations use.

Manual archiving of a withdrawn nomination

  1. In Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list click on the title/link of the candidate image, then [edit].
    In the occasion that the FPCbot will not mark withdrawn nominations with a "to be reviewed" template and put them in Category:Featured picture candidates awaiting closure review just like if they were on the usual list, put the following "no" template:
    {{FPC-results-reviewed|support=X|oppose=X|neutral=X|featured=no|gallery=|sig=--~~~~}}
  2. Also edit the title of the candidate image template and add after the image tag
    not featured
    For example:
    === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]] ===
    becomes
    === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]], not featured ===
  3. Save your edit.
  4. Open Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list, click on [edit], and find the transclusion of the nomination. It will be of the form:
    {{Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:XXXXX.jpg}}
    Copy it to the bottom of Commons:Featured picture candidates/Log/November 2025), save that page, and remove it from the candidate list.
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