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File:Tosh Gate, Khiva (Toshdarvoza, Таш-дарваза - южные ворота, Хива).jpg

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Tosh Gate, Khiva (Toshdarvoza, Таш-дарваза - южные ворота, Хива)

File:Burbuja subacuática, Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, México, 2024-12-18, DD 27.jpg

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Air bubble underwater, Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, Mexico

File:Lince ibérico (Lynx pardinus), Almuradiel, Ciudad Real, España, 2021-12-19, DD 02.jpg

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Wild female Iberian Lynx (Lynx pardinus), Almuradiel, Ciudad Real, Spain.

File:Црква „Св. Петка“ - Руѓинце 10.jpg

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A relief of a bull head on the northwestern edge of St. Petka Church in the village of Ruǵince

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The Trifid and Lagoon nebulae as imaged by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

File:Aerial View, Sanshan Island, Hailing Island, Jiangcheng District, Yangjiang City.jpg

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Cursorius coromandelicus (Indian Courser)

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Gigantic jet taken with automatic camera at the International Gemini Observatory

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Shell of a Canary-bird Bulimus, length 4.7 cm, Originating from the Philippines

File:Mahtab Yaghma, Buchmesse 2025, Frankfurt (20251018-P1063373).jpg

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Headshot of Mahtab Yaghma

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Alternative version with more exposure and vignetting

  •  Info Alternative version suggested by Mile (more exposure and added vignetting to focus the subject). All by MB-one.

File:Ergaki, Buiba Valley, Western Sayan Mountains, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.jpg

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Buiba Valley in Ergaki Range, Western Sayan Mountains.

File:8th century Standing Shiva Mahadeva, Kashmir, India, Clevelandart 1989.369.jpg

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A c. 750–800 CE gray schist three-headed Shiva from Kashmir, with a three-eyed yogi-king front facing form, his consort Parvati as the left head, and three-eyed Bhairava as right head. His sons Ganesha and Kumara stand at his feet, and a three-eyed Vrishabha, his mount, stands behind.

File:Treppenhaus-Villa-Hügel-2025.jpg

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Staircase of Villa Hügel in Essen with sun shining through the window

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Parasol mushroom (Macrolepiota procera) in groundcover of Lesser periwinkle (Vinca minor)

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NGC 1275

File:Црква „Св. Ѓорѓи“ - Пелинце 4.jpg

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A niche with a fresco of Saint George above the entrance of the eponymous church in the village of Pelince

File:134 Female Amazon kingfisher in Encontro das Águas State Park Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg

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Female Amazon kingfisher in Encontro das Águas State Park

File:Paris - Palais du Louvre - Interne - La Terre recevant des empereurs Adrien et Justinien le code des lois romaines dictées par la Nature, la Justice et la Sagesse - Charles Meynier (1803) - 2025-10-11 15-05-37 001.jpg

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Allegory of Earth... - Charles Meynier (1803).
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured_pictures/Objects/Architectural elements#Painted ceilings
  •  Info Allegory of the Earth, ... receiving the Code of Roman Law from the Emperors Hadrian and Justinian. It depicts the personification of Earth receiving Roman law from the above described emperors, with the gods Nature, Justice, and Wisdom (Minerva) dictating the code. This work is also known as "The Codex of Justinian" and is in the public domain. It was painted in two different versions, one in pen and ink on paper and another large-scale ceiling painting for the Louvre Museum. The last one, made by Charles Meynier (1803), is a vertical-pano photo created, uploaded and nominated by Terragio67 -- Terragio67 (talk) 12:55, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

* Support -- Terragio67 (talk) 12:55, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Request Upon reviewing the category for this painting, I noticed that there are indeed photographs taken directly beneath the ceiling painting. Perhaps at the time this particular photograph was taken, access to that vantage point was unavailable - possibly due to occupancy or other constraints. In any case, it remains a very detailed and beautiful shot, and a gentle perspective correction could help reduce the slightly distracting angles. -- Radomianin (talk) 18:34, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, that's exactly right, there were some glass cases containing jewels and trinkets... Anyway, I thought I could fix the distorted vision from the projection with a curvature correction, hoping to have maintained the proportions in an alternative version. Terragio67 (talk) 18:57, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Alternative version

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  •  Thank you so much for uploading the straightened version! I've prepared a slightly sharpened alternative, as the straightening process made it a bit soft. The subtle changes in proportions are hardly noticeable, and I personally find this version quite appealing. I've made it available for download via SwissTransfer - if you like it, please feel free to use it for an update. I'd be happy to support this version. Best, -- Radomianin (talk) 19:52, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for the suggested lighting contrast, which I'll gladly accept. Finally, I adjusted the proportions of Meynier's painting based on the available information. (I'm in your debt...). Good night. Terragio67 (talk) 20:35, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Many thanks for using and further refining the sharpened version, I truly appreciate it. No need to feel in my debt, that's exactly the wiki spirit - working together towards the same goal :) -- Radomianin (talk) 20:40, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • I see your point - the frontal view isn't something anyone could actually see standing beneath the ceiling. That said, I think Terragio67's correction does a great job of restoring the painting's proportions and reducing the distortion in the photo, without trying to invent a new perspective. We often see similar adjustments on Commons for ceiling paintings, helping the artwork itself come through more clearly. For me, this really makes Meynier's composition easier to read and enjoy, and I appreciate the care that went into it. -- Radomianin (talk) 03:38, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • I read your exchange with great interest, wondering whether I made the right choice in creating an architectural projection onto a concave surface. By first attempting to reconstruct the panorama with an orthogonal perspective and then a sinusoidal one (which is actually very similar), could I have achieved a credible representation? Terragio67 (talk) 09:41, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yes, you're absolutely right - in principle, the curvature should be preserved. But since you couldn't take the photo from a point directly beneath the ceiling (the showcases made that impossible), a natural curvature wasn't achievable in-camera. Your rectified version is therefore probably the most faithful way to convey the artwork's proportions, even if it looks geometrically flatter than in reality. Maybe note that in the file description - it helps others understand the choice. -- Radomianin (talk) 10:40, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • The preparatory drawing for this ceiling painting, which is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shows that Meynier first designed the composition on a flat surface before adapting it to the curved ceiling. In this sense, the straightened version echoes the artist's original layout. -- Radomianin (talk) 11:27, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for sharing this document. I'm now happy and confident that the flattened version turned out more than adequately with the available information. Terragio67 (talk) 12:46, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • As the son of a painter, I strongly disagree that flat sketches indicate anything about the artist's intention for the final work. Many sculptors also did preparatory flat sketches. I hope you wouldn't try to argue that a work of flat art was their "original conception". Ikan Kekek (talk) 14:04, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thank you for sharing your perspective and for giving insight from your personal experience with your father's artistic process - that's wonderful. Just to clarify, I never intended to imply that the preparatory drawing represents Meynier's original intention for the ceiling painting - that was not my aim. I included the sketch only as a reference to compare with the straightened version. The straightened version was created solely to provide a proportionally balanced view of the composition, complementing rather than replacing the perspective version.
Incidentally, my biological father, whom I grew up apart from, wasn't a painter like yours, but he painted Thuringian house facades with nature and animal motifs. -- Radomianin (talk) 14:31, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The fact that a father was or wasn't a painter isn't important here. What matters is how sketches and the final work correspond, and I appreciate the helpful perspectives shared by others. Best, -- Radomianin (talk) 10:01, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't want to start a heated discussion on this topic; I simply tried to determine (possibly) the best strategy for merging a convex or concave surface onto a flat surface when stitching photos (in this case, I tried a software named Hugin). In the end, the screen on which we display the images is flat. Regardless of the outcome, I ran some tests that may prove useful in the future. Thanks for your feedback, best regards. Terragio67 (talk) 14:33, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support It’s a very interesting question which projection would be best for reproducing a ceiling painting on a barrel vault. On the one hand it seems very plausible that we need some concave curves at the top and bottom of the painting, like in this version; this suggests to the viewer (in the best possible way) that they are looking at a painting on a barrel vault. On the other hand IMHO Themis and Minerva look a little bit distorted in that version, just as to be expected because their heads are near to the curve of the top edge, and IMHO they look more natural in the rectified version which we are discussing here. The same applies also (at a smaller degree) to the female allegory of earth in the lower right corner. So the situation is inconclusive. I guess the reason is simply that Meynier has designed his work not for photographers who want to capture it in a single flat frame, but for the living human viewer who can walk up and down under the barrel vault, views the painting on its three-dimensional barrel surface from different angles, and composes it in his mind. Therefore, if I may put it this way, there is simply no “correct”, i.e., completely adequate, representation of such a ceiling painting in a vault; all reproductions are inevitably only approximate. We can only decide which reproduction(s) we consider most useful, and therefore, although I might prefer a version with slightly curved edges, I also find this projection legitimate, beautiful and very useful. In any case it has much better detail and much better colours than the existing FP, which, even if it would not have been taken by our dear special friend Livio (sigh), looks really dated and rather poor when compared to the new candidate – Livio’s version has curves, yes, but it is tilted and somewhat crooked, not even to mention the mediocre, blotchy details. No reproduction is perfect, but this one is such an enormous progress in comparison to Livio’s one that I have to support it. – Aristeas (talk) 19:51, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    If we could have this quality with that shape, I'd be happier. That's a very eloquent statement, though. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:49, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support heylenny (talk/edits) 20:54, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Very well done --Uoaei1 (talk) 07:57, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Not perfect, but it's near-impossible to get this perfectly right, and what we have here is a superb effort that is vastly better than Livio's mess Cmao20 (talk) 13:27, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --MZaplotnik(talk) 13:33, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Please, add the original picture as an other version in the description of the image (and at the same time also here). Also, it would be interesting if you can specify in the "Retouched picture" template the type of projection that you adopted to get this result. Great job. --Harlock81 (talk) 14:10, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Harlock81 ː Done, if you have a minute, take a quick look, please. Terragio67 (talk) 18:12, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Fine, as long as the change about perspective is mentioned. --Yann (talk) 07:50, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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A grilled window of an abandoned communal building in the village of Žegljane

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larvae of an Asian ladybeetle on orchard grass in Eching, Germany

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Purple sandpiper (Calidris maritima), adult in summer plumage, Reykjavik, Iceland

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Magnus Cort and Cristián Rodríguez climbing Col de la Couillole on stage 20 of Tour de France 2024.

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Church of Saint Augustin, Paris, France

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View of the castle of Estaing, Aveyron, France

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Cemetery in Szczutków (Щутків), Poland

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Palm warbler in a meadow

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Fork-tailed bush katydid

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A melodious warbler on a branch.

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A great crested grebe holding an European perch.

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Max Giesinger at 5th Zeltfestival Rhein-Neckar, Mannheim

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A moody morning in Drenthe near Aalden. Visible are crepuscular rays and a partial fog iridescence, made visible by the shallow solar incidence angle and fine water droplets in the fog.

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Extremely info-dense poster of the electromagnetic spectrum and properties

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A. J. Muste, antiwar activist, Central Park, New York

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Jaguar drinking in Encontro das Águas State Park

File:Vallée de la Séveraisse, sur le chemin allant des refuges de de Vallonpierre à Chabournéou (La Chapelle-en-Valgaudemar, Hautes-Alpes, France) DSC01588b.jpg

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Séveraisse Valley, on the trail linking the Vallonpierre and Chabournéou refuges. The peaks in the background reach 3,400 meters (La Chapelle-en-Valgaudemar, Hautes-Alpes, France)

The peaks and glaciers visible from left to right are Les Rouies (3589 m), the Rouies glacier, the three peaks of Vaccivier (3297, 3210 and 3242 m), the South peak of Says forming a continuous horizontal ridge (3422 m), Mont Goberney (3352 m) and forming the foreground the Piton de la Viaclose (3009 m) and the western flank of the Pic des Aupilous (3505 m). At the bottom of the photo in the valley we can see the Gioberney chalet-hotel (altitude 1636 m.) created by Pline – uploaded by Pline – nominated by Pline -- Pline (talk) 08:14, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Barakhan Madrasah, Taskhent, Uzbekistan

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The entrance portal of the ruined monastery in Wörschweiler, Homburg, Germany

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Rusty-flanked Treecreeper (Certhia nipalensis)

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I had never really thought about this before. What I usually do is place the dead specimen on a white piece of cardboard — I like the contrast. Then I extend the legs, because otherwise the specimen lies on its side, and I don’t like that position. That’s my motivation. I’m now switching from my Nikon AF macro lens to the AF-S version, which allows me to use the focus bracketing function on my Nikon D780. I’m also planning to photograph more live specimens now, since I live just a few kilometers from the Sierra de Guadalupe, a forest teeming with insect life.--Cvmontuy (talk) 03:16, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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View of Vihren, the highest peak of Bulgaria's Pirin Mountains

File:Eravikulam National Park-WUS07189.jpg

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Eravikkulam National Park, Kerala, India

File:Sinking building in Montmartre.jpg

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Interesting view of a building at the foot of the basilica of Montmartre, Paris, France
Sorry, but I dont understand your comment. Its obvious that it is an actual building, you have even the location of the building in Paris. It is not an unstable building. It is only a joke.
If you want in Commons only photos of actual objects, you must forbid all the art, paintings, drawings, sculptures. Does Wikipédia understand humor?--Tangopaso (talk) 16:07, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Of course we can have jokes, humor and such things here, but the description, file names and galleries should be correct since that is how people find images here. If you call this a 'sinking building', it will come up in searches people make for actual sinking buildings. If you indicate in the title and description that it's a funny joke photo, then people who are looking for funny photos will find it. With the right words, your photo will find the right audience. --Cart (talk) 21:18, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No sorry, I dont have --Tangopaso (talk) 08:20, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I uploaded an image with better definitionː 3.38 Mb instead of 2.18 Mb. I hope it will be OK. --Tangopaso (talk) 15:49, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Logan Square; Spring Garden.png

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An aerial view of Logan Square and the greater Spring Garden / Fairmount area in Philadelphia.

File:Asbury Park Oceanfront Aerial (October 15, 2025).png

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An aerial view of the oceanfront properties along Asbury Park (New Jersey)'s prime beachfront strip.
  • Yes, this one is good. Please remind me of the advantages of JPEGs over PNGs. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:45, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    PNGs
    • take up much more space
    • MW's thumbnail generator blurs PNG thumbnails (and nobody's fixed that bug for decadeS if my memory serves me)
    JayCubby (talk) 22:58, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Good to know. If these don’t pass I’ll be sure to retry as JPEGs. Szeremeta (talk) 15:45, 18 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    To be fair we must also add that PNG files offer lossless compression, while JPEG is a lossy compression. This explains why PNG files are much bigger, but also means that they are much better for archiving important images, original scans, etc. The fact that Mediawiki blurs PNG thumbnails is not the fault of the PNG format, so we cannot blame that file format for the bug. For all normal photos JPEG should always be good enough, of course. – Aristeas (talk) 13:25, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ikan Kekek, to defend my opinion against this criticism, I didn't demand it on this author's other nomination (which I supported and continue to think is very good). But the issue here for me is that because the photo is taken a fair distance away from the buildings, there is some distortion but not enough for it to produce a striking and impressive effect as in the other picture, just enough for it to look slightly strange. For example, the leaning orange building on the right looks particularly odd and disturbing. In this photograph, a perspective correction would be relatively easy and would in my opinion only improve the composition with no drawbacks. In fact, I actually tried it. See here. Szeremeta, you're welcome to do what you like with this version. Ignore this if you prefer though! Cmao20 (talk) 13:42, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Castle Pfalzgrafenstein - Kaub - 1.jpg

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Castle Pfalzgrafenstein
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