Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Archaic view of BP Pedestrian Bridge

Archaic view of BP Pedestrian Bridge

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Original - BP Pedestrian Bridge amid its Millennium Park and Grant Park surroundings from Willis Tower in a view that no longer exists due to the construction of Legacy Tower. Also visible in the photo are parts of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion and in the upper left corner you see McDonald's Cycle Center. The cross street is Columbus Drive (Chicago). Randolph Street is partially visible in the upper left.

Reason

The EV of this image is due to its archaic nature. The Chicago skyline photography is defined by three locations. The most classic photography of it comes from the Adler Planetarium (See Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Chicago skyline at sunrise‎ where several examples exist) and from observation decks at Willis Tower and Hancock Center. As WP:CHICAGO director who stumbles across a lot of Chicago photography, these are the three iconic views of the city's architecture. This particular 2007 view no longer exists (see File:WillisTowerPanorama01.jpg which shows how Legacy Tower impedes the view). Although the Willoughby Tower seems to impede the view of the rest of Millennium Park, it serves as a reminder that this is a view from within one of the world's most phenomenal skylines. Its highest EV uses a cropped version of this image. Since Willoughby Tower predates the Bridge by several decades, the view was never unimpeded.

Articles in which this image appears

BP Pedestrian Bridge (cropped version)
Millennium Park
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Columbus Drive (Chicago)

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Urban

Creator

Flickr user KE4SFQ

• Support as nominator --TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:34, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose Had to read article to find out what this picture was of, as its such a tiny part of this picture... Plus this picture is not in the article for BP Pedestrian Bridge - as admitted a cropped version of it is... This is therefore technically a different picture and thus this nom should not include BP Pedestrian Bridge as a location of this picture... I have taken the liberty of striking this link... Gazhiley (talk) 01:12, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose partially per the above, the subject is not clear and the image is very busy with extraneous elements. Cat-five - talk 05:03, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose, I completely agree. I just can't tell what I'm looking at. J Milburn (talk) 10:58, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose It's a great photo, but the quality simply isn't there. Sorry! Haljackey (talk) 04:39, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose Pile on. Per all previous ‘oppose’ vote comments. Greg L (talk) 16:33, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose per all the other oppose comments. The Utahraptor ^Talk 00:13, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Not promoted --Jujutacular ^T · C 16:30, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

• Closed per WP:SNOW. Jujutacular ^T · C 16:30, 9 June 2010 (UTC)