Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Shenzhen Construction

Shenzhen Construction

Reason: Excellent resolution, and very pleasing to the eye. Quite representative of its main article, Shenzhen, too.
Articles this image appears in: Shenzhen and History of the People's Republic of China (1989-2002)
Creator: Rüdiger Meier
Nominator: WoodenTaco

Support — WoodenTaco 01:14, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support. Focus and lighting could be better, but nice composition. Redquark 01:59, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support Impressive picture. Nicely composed. The only negative point I found was slight graininess when viewing buildings on the left, but overall certainly makes me want to know more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Krowe (talk • contribs) 02:51, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment do I detect a slight tilt to the left? --Bridgecross 03:41, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- You're right, the central towers need one degree of clockwise rotation - Adrian Pingstone 10:22, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Very good picture that is encyclopedic. S h a r k f a c e 2 1 7 08:01, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
comment I think the tilt is just an optical illusion caused by the length of the building on the left. But I could be wrong. S h a r k f a c e 2 1 7 08:01, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- When I put it in photoshop and drop a plumb line down, all the buildings are tilted ~~--207.38.206.107 23:09, 14 January 2007 (UTC)~~ --Bridgecross 14:08, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I just don't see how's this is particularly special. I myself is from China and I know there's lots of contruction going on so why is this particularly special? Where's the enc? FWIW you just have some building material lying around and that's probably it. Also at full resolution it looks very soft and could benefit a bit from perspective correction. --antilived^{T | C | G} 09:43, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I go to Shenzhen twice a year. This photo is not a good photo, does not represent Shenzhen and does not shed any insights on the city. Shenzhen is a glimmering financial center just north of Hong Kong. Any encyclopedic photos of the city should reveal it's tall skyscrapers, throngs of people on the street or neon-filled night life. This photos is taken from the boring Lo Wu train station and shows nothing important or impressive! Click here to see a "real" photo of Shenzhen --UCLARodent 09:59, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Never been there but I agree with UCLARodent. This sort of picture doesn't really represent a city particularly well. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 13:24, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, okay but doesn't represent the city well enough to be highly encyclopedic. Arjun 18:31, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Very nice picture. For me (I study political science) it is quite symbolic. - Darwinek 00:04, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Aside from the issue with the tilt, this does not illustrate the topic of its article particularly well. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 20:09, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
weak support - it feels like there is tilt to me - I think it is fisheyeing though. Seems to perfectly illustrate the History of China article section, and is quite attractive as a thumbnail. Debivort 21:11, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I think it's at least representative of the article, which discusses Shenzhen as one of the "fastest growing" cities in the world. This image really captures the enormous growth to me, with the towering skyscrapers in the background and a construction site which makes me visualize another skyscraper. In addition, I think it's significantly better than the picture of Shenzhen at night provided by UCLARodent, if only because the nighttime-skyline picture is so stale and generic. This image seems fairly unique. WoodenTaco 22:53, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support. I went to Shenzen in 1995 and it was a lot less built-up than it appears in this photo (9 yrs later), so I certainly agree that it shows the speed of progress in the city. I think the photo needs a little perspective correction, though. howcheng {chat} 20:07, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose The buildings are falling! --Arad 00:04, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --KFP (talk | contribs) 16:31, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]