Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/CalvaryCemeteryQueens edit.jpg

Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York

Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York. The tall building on the left is the Empire State Building; the tall building in the center is the Chrysler building

High quality picture, of high resolution, in the public domain, visually striking. Nice composition with the city of the dead in the foreground and the city of the living in the background, under a golden sky. Appears in the article Calvary_Cemetery, Queens; it's the best part of the article at present and will no doubt prompt the expansion of the article soon. Gives a good idea of the scope and size of the cemetery.

The image was created and uploaded by User:Plowboylifestyle.

Nominate and support. - Nunh-huh 00:18, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1. At thumbnail size, the original looks okay, but at full resolution it looks veiled. Since fog is not evident in the image, I adjusted noise and contrast. At full resolution I think it is a noticeable improvement. -- moondigger 02:34, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit 1, encyclopaedic, quite artistic, and a lot better than many of the images nominated lately...The composition and colours don't totally grab me, and the yellow grass(?) is a bit odd. Would support further colour corrections. Stevage 09:26, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1 Interesting colors Brighter than original. Anonymous__Anonymous 09:56, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit 1. Encyclopedic, attractive, and interesting. --Pharaoh Hound 12:02, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit 1. as above--Childzy_talk^contribs 12:35, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit 1 LadyofHats 16:45, 29 June 2006 (UTC).[reply]
Comment. I'm in two minds. Is it me or are the scycrapers slightly inclining to the right? Also, the tombstones in the front are too close. I may change my mind but right now something's not right about this picture. I don't really have a good view on the graveyard. — Vildricianus 21:34, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit 1. Reasons stated above--Geoffrey Gibson 22:15, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Blah! This photo is ugly! And all I know about this cemetary now is that you can see the NYC skyline from it... what's the encyclopedic value here? ~MDD 46 96 15:01, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Support edit 1. Cab02 19:58, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral. I question the encyclopedic value of this image, although I admit the composition is compelling. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 21:11, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. The encyclopedic value seems obvious to me. There is an article about Calvary Cemetery. This is a picture of that cemetery. It doesn't get more basic than that. And the information in the image is good for two reasons; it not only shows us the cemetery, it also gives us an idea of where it's located, within sight of the famous Manhattan skyline. -- moondigger 14:39, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Well, it shows us a "portion" of the cemetary, yes... My point is that I'm not sure this is the most encyclopedic way that the shot that could be taken. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 18:11, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - I agree it's possible that a picture more thoroughly representative of the cemetery might be taken, perhaps from a crane or other aerial view. For that matter, it's possible that more representative images could be taken than most of the current featured pictures. But what we have right now is this one -- and it's pretty good, IMO. If another picture of Calvary Cemetery comes available that's superior than this one, we could promote it and consider whether this one should be delisted then. -- moondigger 21:26, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1 Excellent photo. On a personal note, it was really freaking riding a bus past this massive cemetry as the sun was setting a few weeks after 9/11. Because at a distance the skyscrapers started blending in with the tombstones. Bwithh 02:59, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Tres evocative. Prefer edit 1.
Oppose I actually find the image too cluttered. A single carefully picked tombstone I think would have been more effective. --Fir0002 09:11, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1. Very nice. Morgan695 02:18, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:CalvaryCemeteryQueens_edit.jpg Raven4x4x 07:26, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]