Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Snowboarder snowboarding

Snowboarder snowboarding in Austria

Original - An airborne snowboarder in Tannheim, Austria. Considered an extreme sport, snowboarding was introduced in the 1960s and has grown to become a popular competitive sport worldwide, eventually becoming a Winter Olympic Sport in 1998.

Reason

An attempt to boost our sports FPs. Seems to be one of the best snowboarding shots we have and gives some snow, scenery, and motion for context. Decent size, too.

Articles in which this image appears

Snowboarding

Creator

Søren Hoven

• Support as nominator —Maedin\^talk 20:44, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support. Good panning is rare at FPC. A fine action shot. Durova⁴⁰⁸ 21:11, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
• Weak support. Great shot. Looks oversharpened and oversaturated though. Kaldari (talk) 21:54, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support per Durova. (I also added to the caption.) upstateNYer 00:16, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support. The tuft of snow on the left shows us where he has come from, and contextualises the shot. Mostlyharmless (talk)
• Weak Support Nice action image, but I think the shutter speed wasn't fast enough. The background is a little bit more blurry than expected. Kangxi Emperor 康熙帝 (talk) 08:17, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
  • The background blur is achieved by a photographic technique called panning --Muhammad(talk) 14:35, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
    • Agreeing with Muhammad: panning is done for deliberate artistic effect in sports photography because it conveys a sense of motion. Durova⁴⁰⁸ 17:46, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support Good frozen motion is so hard to find these days. :) Staxringold _talk^contribs 18:30, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support. Decent illustration. I've never been snowboarding, but that image captures what I imagine it feels like :) J Milburn (talk) 18:58, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support per a number of the above --Herby ^{talk thyme} 13:18, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support per above. Noodle snacks (talk) 06:47, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose per Diliff's "lack-lustre background" rule. WiiWillieWiki 21:01, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Promoted File:Snowboarder in flight (Tannheim, Austria).jpg --Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 23:31, 12 February 2010 (UTC)