User:Spikebrennan

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Photo taken at Chief Whitecap Park near Saskatoon Saskatchewan. See also Buffaloberry

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I'm a lawyer who lives in Rosemont, Pennsylvania and works in Philadelphia. My Wikipedia interests include my undergraduate alma mater (the University of Chicago), and the history and geography of southeastern Pennsylvania.

Galleries of Images

Featured Pictures nominated by me

The following images are Featured Pictures that were nominated by me (although I did not have anything to do with creating them) (link to the nom). As of January 2008, the promotion rate for my nominations is about 44%:

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  Abraham Lincoln
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  Tvashtar eruption
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  The First Telegraph
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  Buffalo Bill
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  Constitution
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  Sitting Bull. My nom was cropped differently than the image that was ultimately promoted.
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  Buchenwald slaves
• Hitler and Mussolini
  Hitler and Mussolini
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  Mulberry Street, NYC
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  John Wilkes Booth wanted poster
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  Frederick Douglass
• U.S. aircraft in World War I
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  Mount Etna eruption
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  Brandenburg Gate quadriga
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  Grenville Diptych (FP for April Fools' Day 2008
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  Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Arc de Triomphe 2007
• Annie Oakley
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  Diffusion tensor imaging of brain
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  Ireland from space
• Bombing of Hamburg
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  Theodore Roosevelt
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  Carpenter
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  Mercury (subsequently delisted and replaced
• Challenger disaster (subsequently delisted)
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  Hurricane Katrina flooding
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  Mice galaxies
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  Malcolm X
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  Sumo wrester

My nominees to FPC that did not pass

The following images were nominated by me for Featured Picture status but the nomination did not pass (explanation noted with link to the nom):

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  Tilt and color problems
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  cropping
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  JPG artifacts; previously failed FPC nom
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  Scan resolution and coloration
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  Tilt, composition, haze, and pixelly
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  Inferior portrait- a better one of same subject is available, but only in low-res scan.
• JPG artifacts, subject cut off on left
  JPG artifacts, subject cut off on left
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  not much interest in the nom, photographer details undocumented, damage to photo
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  JPG artifacts
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  technical problems
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  Nom resulted in a differnet photo of Sherman being featured instead.
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  Image quality; also this appears to be a mirror image of the original.
• Scratches on photo
  Scratches on photo
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  Too grainy (new edit passed FPC)
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  Framing
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  Debris on image, better images of volcano available
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  Scan quality/JPG artifacts; not unique
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  Noise and grain
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  Non-descript image, inferior composition
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  Noise, blurriness
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  Fuzzy, vertical exaggeration
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  Bad crop
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  Poor composition
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  No consensus
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  grainy
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  blurry, small
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  Previous failed nom, insufficiently hi-res
• Film omits most famous part of speech
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  Cut and paste onto uninteresting background, not focused
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  inferior composition
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  Blurry, Lincoln and Booth are hard to identify
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  Unrealistic colors
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  Insufficiently high resolution
• low-quality, no consensus
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  Image size
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  Too small, redundant of another Game of Life image
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  Tilted
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  no consensus
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  Not quite sharp enough
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  Needs cleanup
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  Reflection of photographic flash on right side
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  No consensus

The following photographs were taken by me

Ogunquit River

Ogunquit River in Ogunquit, Maine at high tide and low tide

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Philadelphia

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Other images

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  Newborn infant
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  palm trees in Santa Monica, California
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  Sunset in Santa Monica, California
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  "The Awakening", better known as "The Oreo"-- a sculpture on the campus of Villanova University.
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  Roof leaking at Frank Lloyd Wright's office at Taliesin West.
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  View from Camelback Mountain, Phoenix Arizona
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  Another view from Camelback Mountain, Phoenix Arizona
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  Santa Barbara Pier, Santa Barbara, California
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  Lansdowne Herakles, part of the collection of the Getty Villa
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  Statue of Zeus, part of the collection of the Getty Villa
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  Statutes of a religious association, part of the collection of the Getty Villa
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  Getty Villa

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This user lives in or hails from Philadelphia.

This user is a lawyer.

This user attends or attended the University of Chicago.

This user attends or attended
the University of Pennsylvania

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