Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/City Observatory

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City Observatory[edit]

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Original – Gothic Tower, the oldest part in City Observatory, an astronomical observatory on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland. Taken in 2013.
Reason
High quality and good EV
Articles in which this image appears
City Observatory
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
Creator
Kadellar
  • Support as nominatorTomer T (talk) 16:28, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment — Unique structure with an interesting history. Does Banquo's ghost lurk there after dark? Sca (talk) 18:34, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - That tree is distracting. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:06, 6 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
It's possible to crop out all but the smallest branches, but that cuts the size to below minimum. Sca (talk) 15:34, 7 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - I think a building without surrounding natural elements makes for a stark photo. The winding, upward-sloping path, and to a certain extent also the tree off to the left, make it clear that the building is at the top of a hill. CorinneSD (talk) 20:35, 7 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support That the criteria of being substantially important to the subject article is met is without question. Overall well done, and I am OK with the tree. Jusdafax 03:47, 11 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support -- --The Herald : here I am 14:26, 11 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - I agree with Crisco about that tree being distracting - not because it is there - but because of the big volume of it. It is taking up to much place in the picture compared with the buildning. It would benefit of a just little slight cropping - only some pixels - the left side. Hafspajen (talk) 15:35, 13 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I don't find the branches all that distracting — as common objects they're a sort of visual archetype — but I would suggest reshooting in larger format with somewhat tighter crop. Still an interesting subject. Sca (talk) 17:43, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
That is what I am saying, a tighter crop. On the left side. Hafspajen (talk) 08:22, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 16:35, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]