Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Vexi Salmi

Vexi Salmi

Reason: Engaging, high-quality, high-resolution portrait of a very popular man in Finland. Thanks to Jafeluv for helping me with the Finnish to expand Salmi's article from an unreferenced stub.
Articles in which this image appears: Vexi Salmi
Creator: Teemu Rajala

Commons nomination statement: This portrait was nominated at Commons last year and the Finnish nominator, Samulili, had this to say: "I find it hard to explain the greatness of this image but I will try my best... This man, Vexi Salmi, is one of the most popular, if not the most popular, lyricist in Finnish music. His lyrics have spoken to millions of Finns through platinum selling artists such as Irwin Goodman, Jari Sillanpää, Katri Helena etc. He does not write music for the younger generation but rather to the baby boomers of his age, the rural generation urbanized in the 70s, dancing their waltz and Finnish tango. His lyrics are not only of love but also of social phenomena and critical double entendre. In this picture he is shown against the rural background (forest) leaning against a pine. His habitus and expression tell of a personality who amicably casts his critical gaze on the things he sees happening around him (cf.). More than that, and what makes the image even better, is that you could label the image "the Finnish middle-aged man", so archetypal he looks in his gray suit. I have never been able to judge the technical quality of any image professionally (althought this looks very good) but the greatness of this image lies not in its technical achievements but the cultural connotations is captures." (link)
Support as nominator —Maedin\^talk 07:28, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Absolutely agree with the original nominator (except maybe their definition of "middle age"). Salmi is an icon in Finland, despite being strictly a behind-the-scenes man and not a performer. It's a high quality photo, already featured in Commons, and captures the man and his background very effectively. Jafeluv (talk) 08:05, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Good composition and high resolution. Snowman (talk) 11:22, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support, very nice. J Milburn (talk) 12:00, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Commons FPC. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 22:01, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Mbz1 (talk) 00:03, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support. High quality portrait. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 12:04, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Pile on support per above --Muhammad(talk) 01:26, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support –Ppntori (talk) 14:56, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support I have issues with the phrasing of the image description, it would read better saying something along the lines of "[[Vexi Salmi of Finland" in my opinion, but the image is superbly done. Cat-five - talk 00:36, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fair point, I've altered the caption, :) Maedin\^talk 00:39, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've tweaked it further to remove the commas. (Feel free to revert if you disagree.) Jafeluv (talk) 18:04, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Even better. Maedin\^talk 21:47, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support. High quality portrait. - Darwinek (talk) 23:12, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support per above. Very nice. -- Avenue (talk) 22:02, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Vexi Salmi.jpg Jujutacular ^T · C 23:19, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]