Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mount Rushmore, South Dakota

Mount Rushmore, South Dakota

Original - The Mount Rushmore monumental sculpture of South Dakota, depicting (from left to right) U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln

Reason

An iconic image for an iconic monument; violates no FP criteria that I am aware of and is 2,000 × 1,333 pixels in size.

Articles this image appears in

Mount Rushmore, South Dakota

Creator

Dean Franklin

• Support as nominator --Pericles of Athens^Talk 16:33, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
• Comment. My only complaint is the blown highlights. I've contacted the photographer on Flickr to ask for an unprocessed version; if he responds and shares the original, I'll give it a shot at reprocessing.--ragesoss (talk) 17:41, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Cool! Thanks.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 17:48, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

The photographer sent me the original; unfortunately, it's a jpeg, but it's well-exposed. I played around with it some, but I couldn't get the same level of pop as in this version without blowing out the highlights. Someone more skilled than me might want to take a crack at it: File:Dean Franklin - 06.04.03 Mount Rushmore Monument (by-sa) - original.jpg. --ragesoss (talk) 00:15, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Not promoted Feel free to try again with a new version. --Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 19:07, 12 July 2009 (UTC)