Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Barbed Wire

Original. Typical modern agricultural barbed wire.

Reason: About as attactive a photo of barbed wire as I can conceive of, focussed on the middle barb. Captured 'in the wild', this clearly shows construction of both the barbs and the wire strands in a natural setting. I particularly like how I captured the sun-glint off the barbs, but not off the wire. (And in case anyone's wondering, the background has not been modified at all, the bokeh is entirely as captured by the lens.)
Proposed caption: Barbed wire is a type of fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strands. This image shows a high-tensile galvanised barbed wire used for agricultural fencing in Victoria, Australia; length from tip-to-tip on the barbs is 2.5cm, barb spacing along the wire is 8.75cm between the centres.
Articles this image appears in: Barbed wire
Fence
Creator: jjron

Support as nominator jjron 16:47, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Oppose OK, it's sharp (pun intended), but no "wow factor" at all. This image wouldn't encourage me to read the article(s). In better context, for instance with out-of-focus animals fenced in the background, a barbed wire might be a FP, but not in a composition this simple. Sorry! --Janke | Talk 19:52, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Oppose per Janke. Debivort 20:10, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Oppose Almost as interesting as the above FPC. ^8thstar 00:22, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 09:09, 19 October 2007 (UTC)