Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/USS Monitor officers

Reason: A featured picure to go with a featured article (Ironclad warship): one of the most famous ships in US Naval history. Unrestored version of File:Monitor officers2.jpg.
Articles this image appears in: USS Monitor, Monitor (warship), Battle of Hampton Roads, Ironclad warship
Creator: unknown

Support as nominator --Durova^Charge! 03:43, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. The ship's interesting, but to me you see far too little of it in this photo. And there's not enough else there to compensate - the composition is average, the lighting is pretty bad, and we get a lineup of fifteen unidentified officers (partially obscured) in lieu of a good view of the ship. Sorry, doesn't make it for mine. --jjron (talk) 14:25, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
support GerardM (talk) 07:29, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support I agree with Jjon that the image lacks 'wow' factor, but it has bucketloads of EV and meets the other criteria. The cannon placed on the deck of the ship for the purposes of the photo (it would have been certain death to use it in combat and it would have gotten swept off the ship in any kind of seas) is fascinating - do you know why it's there? Nick-D (talk) 10:15, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 22:46, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]