Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Burned mobile home neighborhood in Sylmar, California

Burned mobile home neighborhood in Sylmar, California[edit]

Reason: The image was taken a few days after the Sayre Fire in November 2008. There were a lot of reports in the local news about the site, as it lost almost all the homes in the park. The area was deemed a crime scene by the LAPD, and the public were not permitted access. This is one of the few free images that exist of the area. Although the image is a bit cluttered, what with all the burned rubble, I believe it is of encyclopedic value and that it meets the FPC criteria, but then I'm no image wiz. <shrug> This is my first PFC, so be kind :)
Articles this image appears in: Sayre Fire, Sylmar, Los Angeles, California
Creator: Michael Mancino

Support as nominator --Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 06:56, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support - For now. Good EV and aesthetically nice, need to see it in better detail later. ₪Ceran →(cheer→chime →carol) 20:16, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Query - Does anyone else find this kind of similar to this FP? ₪Ceran →(cheer→chime →carol) 01:08, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Can someone fix the epic tilt? Noodle snacks (talk) 01:44, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm not convince that it's tilted, Noodle snacks. Sylmar is at the northwestern end of the San Fernando Valley and abuts the mountains. Basically it's built on alluvial fans. Durova^Charge! 03:49, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - I was looking at the building verticals and some of the conifers in the background, which generally have straight trunks. Noodle snacks (talk) 04:08, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - I initially thought the was tilted, too; however, if you zoom in and look at the one remaining trailer home, the walls surrounding it and the flat-bed tow truck, you'll see they are all straight and their lines are parallel with the edges of the image. The trees and surviving houses in the background do look tilted but I think this is more to do with how the land lies. Also, the worker standing in front of the truck, although bending at the waist slightly, his legs are also in line with the edge of the image. I would imagine the man would not lean lean backwards and then bend forwards as it would be an unnatural stance. Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 05:17, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      - I think it was suffering some distortion which I made some edit to correct as well. Anyway, attached is an edit for someone else to decide on :D. The fix does eat some stuff out of the frame though Noodle snacks (talk) 06:03, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        Mild wide angle distortion, I was thinking. The staggered cement block wall at right and the 30mm focal length confirm it. In this part of California you'll find mid-twentieth century parking lot walls built this way: they look angled but they're actually constructed on a level, adding new rows as the ground rises. Very hard to find a reliable true vertical in this image, but if you split the difference between the two edits and go for roughly equal amounts of angular distortion on both halves of the image I'll support. I like the touch of sharpening btw. Durova^Charge! 07:16, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        Noodle snacks, would you be able to do this, please? I have no skills in photo editing whatsoever. Thanks, Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 09:02, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        New edit uploaded over the top which is what Duvova described, more or less. Noodle snacks (talk) 12:04, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        Thank you. Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 21:49, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1 Noodle snacks (talk) 12:04, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit 1 per above. Durova^Charge! 17:33, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit 1 per encyclopedic value. –Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 02:17, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit 1 per above. Makeemlighter (talk) 04:55, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Burned mobile home neighborhood in California edit.jpg --Wronkiew (talk) 06:19, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]