Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dumbarton Rail Bridge Redux
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 20 Jul 2021 at 09:11:43 (UTC)
- Reason
- I nominated Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dumbarton Rail Bridge with a previous version of this photo. My friend, who is a very good photographer, saw this and sent me the following message: "
jesus you nommed this thing? cringe
". After some helpful advice, I was able to go out and take a far better photo, which I present here for your consideration here. As with the other one, I think it's a well-composed photo that clearly, distinctly and effectively shows the thing it's a photo of, brings encyclopedic value to the articles it's on, and is pretty. - Articles in which this image appears
- Dumbarton Rail Bridge (infobox), San Francisco Bay, List of bridges in the United States, Timeline of the San Francisco Bay Area, History of the Southern Pacific
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
- Creator
- JPxG
- Support as nominator – jp×g 09:11, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose – This overly distant view of the bridge seems a poor composition lacking readily accessible visual info. – Sca (talk) 12:54, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
- What's in this picture is a mile away from the shore, and the trestle leading to it was destroyed by arson many years ago; I'm not sure if it is possible to get any closer without a boat. jp×g 23:39, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose may be camera limitations, but soft. Charlesjsharp (talk) 16:03, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
- Comment The image was only uploaded and added to articles yesterday, so is ineligible for FP status at present (Wikipedia:Featured picture criteria recommends that images be in articles for at least a week before they are nominated for FP status). Nick-D (talk) 05:28, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
- @Nick-D: My understanding is that this rule didn't apply in cases where an image was an improved version of a previous one (the previous one here being File:Dumbarton Rail Bridge 2021.JPG). If this isn't the case, I would be happy to withdraw. Well, not happy, I'd be a little embarrassed at having misinterpreted it, but you get the idea. jp×g 07:55, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
- I think that this is a fairly different picture, given the lighting is quite different - sunset photos are pretty, but not always the best for EV, so I think that this needs to be in the various articles for a while for reviewers to have confidence that it is accepted by the relevant editors. Nick-D (talk) 07:57, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose An improvement over the previous one but as Charlesjsharp mentioned, it is a bit soft. I'd be interested in seeing a stitched image, with longer focal length --Muhammad(talk) 08:35, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
- Okay, I'm going to withdraw, since it seems this one didn't fly so good. jp×g 03:03, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 18:39, 16 July 2021 (UTC)