Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sather Tower

Campanile at the University of California, Berkeley

The Campanile and Mt. Tamalpias from Memorial Stadium at sunset, 2006

Reason: I was absolutely stunned by the quality of this picture of Sather Tower upon first seeing it in the University of California, Berkeley; the mix of color (assisted by the time of the day of the photograph) is simply stunning. The image is 2448px × 3264px (and it still very beautiful zoomed in to full-size) and it demonstrates the concept of a campanile (as well as symbolizes UC-Berkeley) very well. Thus, I feel this satisfies all criteria under WP:FP?.
Articles this image appears in: Sather Tower, Campanile, University of California, Berkeley
Creator: Trisweb (talk · contribs) (Tristan Howard)
Nominator: tariqabjotu

Nomination and Support -- tariqabjotu 02:46, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Very nice. -Fcb981 05:31, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support I told Trisweb to move it Commons and nominate it there because it doesn't show very much of the university, but artistic and technical quality are outstanding. ~ trialsanderrors 06:17, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose, per trialsanderrors... but only if it gets a good extended caption. Otherwise, full oppose. In addition to weak encyclopedicity, the dark foreground detracts from it for me. --ragesoss 09:15, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Sather Tower and Mount Tamalpais at sunset. More commonly known as the Campanile for its resemblance to St Mark's Campanile in Venice, Sather Tower was built in 1914 and has since become the most-recognized landmark of the University of California, Berkeley campus. Designed by John Galen Howard, it houses a 61-bell carillion that is played daily except for finals weeks. Mt. Tamalpais is the highest peak in the Marin Hills and along with Muir Woods, Point Reyes and the Marin Headlands belongs to the protected natural areas in Marin County, north of San Francisco.

Feel free to edit. ~ trialsanderrors 17:33, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose - Agree with the suggestion of Trialsanderrors. But first quality should be improved: grain reduced, sharpness increased and image cropped. Alvesgaspar 11:37, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Illustrates the article Sather Tower very well. I don't think the image needs cropping. --KFP (talk | contribs) 13:17, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support' The tower looks good to me. LostCity42 17:38, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]