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Reason
I had been meaning to nominate this image ever since I took it almost two years ago. Its a high resolution image of a beautiful building.
Proposed caption
The 5 storey Montreal City Hall (Hôtel de Ville) is the work of architects Henri-Maurice Perrault and Alexander Cowper Hutchison, built between 1872 and 1878. Its architecture is in the Second Empire style, also known as Napoléon III-style.
Articles this image appears in
Montreal, Montreal City Hall, Old Montreal
Creator
User:Diliff

Support Nice shot - the lighting is excellent as is the IQ --Fir0002 02:54, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User has only 6 edits - four of which are on FPC the other two on his userpage --Fir0002 22:05, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Is that voting based on personal prejudice, or am I imagining things!? ;-) Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 09:21, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No it's still an amazing picture, especially the colors. What attracts my attention (after more than 20 times watching to it ;) is that i have the feeling that the building is toppling to the right side, maybe caused by a wideangle effect. This picture shows a building in aprox. the same size, (which is not that amazing as yours but still a good one) has not this effect or slight. Here i have the feeling its toppling a bit to the left. Where is that effect coming from? --Central Powers 11:58, 13 September 2007 (UTC) 11:41, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
lol I think the fact you initially said that it was tilting to the right and finished by saying it's toppling to the left kind of speaks for itself ;) - but no matter --Fir0002 11:56, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes tilting should the correct synonym, i meant the 2nd picture is tilting to the left. Excuse my bad english, but its even better than your german i think ;) --Central Powers 11:58, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Montreal City Hall Jan 2006.jpg MER-C 08:58, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]