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.
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Barbed wire
Fence
Creator
jjron

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