Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Downtown Washington

Downtown Washington

About as good a photographic representation of an entire city you can get.

Nominate and support. - Noclip 21:07, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Very nice composition but a little pale in the buildings section of the photo. also the road which is partially shown in the lower right kinda distracts. --Midnight Rider 01:09, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Weak Support Edit 1 is nice but that damn building with the red roof on the right which is at a wierd angle to the picture still distracts. It really stands out from the rest of the buildings so I think the angle is somewhat important. But then again its just me. --Midnight Rider 01:15, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Also that tall pointy building really stands out from the rest. That's even more distracting! (j/k) --Bridgecross 19:17, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Uh, there's no source info. Abstaining until that's clarified. Staxringold _talk^contribs 22:12, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Source info added. howch e ng {chat} 20:57, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. • s d 3 1 4 1 5 talk · contribs • 12:58, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support per quality of picture. Sharkface217 23:43, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support As someone who drives through this picture everyday I am quite impressed with all the features of Washington D.C. this captures. You have the Washington Monument, the Ellipse, The White House, and the Smithsonian all in one picture. Excellent Work. -- immunity 06:43, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Where do you see the Smithsonian? You are peobably confusing it with the Department of Commerce? The SI should be somewhere below the camera. --Dschwen 08:43, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose both. The edit looks like a bad slide scan, at least the original has natural looking colors. But this pic doesn't show downtown Washington, it shows only a tiny fraction. I'd expect Pennsyvania Ave. to be on such a picture, and the Mall in its entirety. --Dschwen 08:46, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit 1 So people finally decided to vote on this pic? Just kidding, but very impressive pic. One of the best aerial shot I've seen. Jumping cheese ^Cont@ct 20:44, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Small and blurry. The angle is also very poor, making the subject unclear. —Cuivi é nen 02:33, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - To clarify some misperceptions: this is not the "entire city" or even all of downtown. It's a small fraction of Washington. There's no one building in D.C. called the "Smithsonian". The Smithsonian Inst. includes over a dozen bldgs. None are in this shot. Pennsylvania Ave is in this shot, although you can't actually see the pavement because of the angle. I'm undecided about the FP status. I don't think it illustrates Washington particularly well. Such an aerial photo would include the Capitol, the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, the Potomac & Anacostia Rivers, National Cathedral, and possibly RFK Stadium among with other notable sites. It only just barely meets the size requirement. OTOH, its a very pretty shot and, considering the near impossibility of entering DC airspace post-9/11, a rare one. --dm ^(talk) 04:18, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Pennsylvania Ave is in this shot, yeah, but only the boring part, not the downtown section. I'm sure with some digging more US armed forces photography of DC can be found. If anyone can enter that airspace its them, right? Anyway, a really nice shot would be taken from above east of the capitol looking west with a strong telelens, that might contract the mall enough to cram everything into one picture. --Dschwen 09:58, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - Something like this only looking in the opposite direction and better quality (and maybe nicer weather). --Dschwen 10:02, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    - Approximately like mall.jpg this, maybe moved back a little and compensated by zooming in more. --Dschwen 10:09, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Too small, too little detail, bad colors, nothing interesting in background. Ugly! I would not even use this to illustrate Washington D.C.. -- Petri Krohn 01:49, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted Raven4x4x 02:46, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]