Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/Hurricane Hazel

Hurricane Hazel

Original - When Hurricane Hazel struck Toronto, Canada in 1954, the Lawrence Avenue bridge was washed out by the Humber River; part of it remained attached to the shore, while the rest was swept away by the river.

Reason

This photo was taken the morning after Hurricane Hazel struck Toronto. The author agreed to release it (and others) under the CC-BY-SA license. This particular photo shows the considerable damage caused by the rising Humber River so there's the big encyclopedic value. Considering the timing/subject, it's quite difficult to replace.

Articles this image appears in

Hurricane Hazel, Effects of Hurricane Hazel in Canada, Raymore Drive, Lawrence Avenue

Creator

Martin Taylor

• Support as nominator --Maxim_(talk) 01:54, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
• Comment This is my favorite one (there's more in Category:Photographs_by_Martin_Taylor), although it's not really great in a small thumb (you have to force the image size to 400px, at least). Two good ones that work in smaller thumbs are File:Hurricane Hazel -- Weston Golf Club.jpg or File:Hurricane Hazel -- debris.jpg. Maxim_(talk) 01:54, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
• Support. Valuable image. -- œ^™ 02:36, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose Image quality is rather poor, looks to be upscaled from a much smaller image. Even though this event took place in the 50s better images have to exist. Plus I don't think this image of the set provides the most EV for the event. Better images probably exists in the Canadian archives or US archives that can be acquired probably at no cost if someone actually looked/searched. — raekyT 14:28, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

• Hi Raeky, thanks for you comment. I'm pretty sure this is a scan, and the original photograph wasn't of the highest quality. There are problems with finding a better image is that for not I haven't encountered much US-stuff, let alone images that can be verified to be PD (although I admit some bias on that since I'm in Canada and Hazel's been covered from a Canadian perspective), and secondly because it was in 1954, to be PD-Canada, it'd have to be done the work the Canadian government to have a chance to be PD. Because 50 years have passed, it would PD in Canada now but it's not PD in the US so it's not uploadable. I had to clear out a few files from Commons previously for this reason. And Library/Archives Canada has a very misleading and confusing website so that doesn't help. There are different photos in the category that you might find with higher EV, but from a Canadian perspective at least, I think that this photo has great EV because this sort of damage is exceedingly uncommon, and also this was taken the morning after with the flooding starting in the late evening of the previous day. Maxim_(talk) 14:56, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

• Neutral Valuable but poor quality. --Extra 999 (Contact ^me + _contribs) 06:05, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Not promoted --Jujutacular ^talk 14:26, 4 August 2010 (UTC)