Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Taos Pueblo by Ansel Adams

Taos Pueblo by Ansel Adams[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 9 Jun 2011 at 01:39:21 (UTC)

Reason: Historic photograph by a world famous photographer
Articles in which this image appears: Ansel Adams, Taos Pueblo
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture or Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Others
Creator: Ansel Adams, restored by Kaldari

Support as nominator --Kaldari (talk) 01:39, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I'm not convinced of the EV - it doesn't seem like its among Ansel Adam's best work and I'm not sure it really shows very much about the church. JJ Harrison (talk) 10:34, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support. This is actually among Adams's better known photographs. Its value is obviously aesthetic rather than documentary or historical, so I wouldn't say it's a problem that the whole church isn't depicted. At any rate, it's wonderfully scanned and restored. NauticaShad es 13:04, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Does everything it should. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 16:11, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Beautiful!--Mbz1 (talk) 17:00, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support When I think of Ansel Adams I immediately see his iconic Yosemite images. Black and white photography is one of my favorite mediums and he is truly a master of the field, one of the greats. This image is technically very good, but i mirror JJ's comments here, I don't think this is an example of his best work. The FP we already have of his work (File:Adams The Tetons and the Snake River.jpg) is more what I think of when I think of his work, but he did plenty of photography that wasn't grandiose scenics. I'm also aware of the limited availably of copyright free images we have access too, much of his work still remains firmly in copyright, so I'm going to go ahead and commit to a weak support here. Personally I think any picture we can get of his is deserving of a FP, just simply because it's Ansel Adams, lol. — raeky t 18:15, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- I've uploaded a new scan of Adams' Tetons and Snake River photo: File:Ansel_Adams_-_National_Archives_79-AA-G01.jpg. It really highlights the shortcomings of our existing FP (especially data loss in the shadows). It needs extensive restoration though, so I wouldn't advise working on it until we have the TIFF, which should be forthcoming. Kaldari (talk) 19:47, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: It seems that the EV here is higher as artwork than it is as a picture of the church. As such, I think it belongs in Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Others. J Milburn (talk) 22:49, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tomer T (talk) 13:28, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Ansel Adams - National Archives 79-AA-Q01 restored.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 05:05, 9 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]