Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Reflecting Pool from Washington Monument

Reason: Meets all criteria and I feel that it offers a very unique view of the reflecting pool that is rarely seen (images of pool almost always show it from ground lever).
Articles in which this image appears: Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, will add to Lincoln Memorial in future
Creator: Hu Totya

Support as nominator --Ridge Runner (talk) 03:58, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose I'd like to say it's a pretty shot, well composed. Drawbacks: it's a little bit grainy. I don't see ISO speed rating on the metadata for the image, but I imagine it was higher than it needed to be. It's also not very sharp. Jujutacular ^T · C 23:46, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Jujutacular. I've been undecided on this in case it was my monitor as I thought it seemed a little fuzzy, but now I know it isn't just me then oppose sorry... Gazhiley (talk) 07:56, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose due to apparent barrel effect (curved horizon) and composition (lake and river shore chopped off at sides, and seems too central to me). --Avenue (talk) 04:55, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose First, I'd like to point out that this is far from a rare shot. It is very easy to recreate and people do it dozens of times per day. My main misgivings about the image is the fact that it could be redone on a clearer day (that is to mean a day with a lower particulate count in the air), which would allow for a cleaner view of Rosslyn and Arlington. Also, just to point out to Avenue, while the cut off of the pond at Constitution Gardens is preventable, you can't do anything about cutting off the river... it is a river after all. upstate NYer 05:14, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps I could have been clearer. I meant that shifting the view right a little might have included the whole pond, and would have avoided including the small patch of highway and river shore (if that's what it is) lower left. --Avenue (talk) 20:51, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 00:41, 14 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]