Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Lea Rowing Club

Lea Rowing Club

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Original – Lea Rowing Club in Tottenham, London, photographed from the pedestrian bridge over the Lea Navigation canal on a Saturday morning: groups setting up boats on cradles outside the boathouse, and disembarking after a practice session. The main boat house is the white structure, with boat storage at ground level and the rowing club bar upstairs, with access via the outside staircase. The brick building in the foreground is also a boathouse used by the same rowing club.

Reason

I'm nominating this as an image showing the atmosphere and the range of social and sporting activity at a small rowing club: it's not to show boats or boat houses which are well represented on Wikimedia, and the rowing club itself is not noteworthy. This is chosen from many shots because it shows so many different things happening, like those Victorian conversation piece paintings, as well as a decent stretch of the water to give an idea of the setting. I'm a bit worried about the lighting, bright sunshine and deep shadows, but I guess I'll soon find out what people think about that - I prefer it not manipulated to lighten the shadows, although that would make the detail clearer.

Articles in which this image appears

Rowing club, Rowing (sport)

FP category for this image

Sport

Creator

User:ProfDEH

• Support as nominator --ProfDEH (talk) 10:39, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
• Oppose The atmosphere of the image is nice, and I think that the lighting etc is fine, however I think the composition is too tight on the bottom, left and right. In other words, too many things feel chopped off. JJ Harrison (talk) 05:57, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
• Oppose Agree with JJ Harrison - I would like to see a wider shot... gazhiley 08:58, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
• Oppose I have to agree with the above, a busy shot is fine but the framing looks off. Cat-fivetc ---- 13:00, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Not promoted --Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 11:53, 23 December 2012 (UTC)