Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Saint Nicholas' Church in Ghent

Saint Nicholas' Church, Ghent photochrom

Original - Saint Nicholas' Church in Ghent (Belgium) before the adjacent houses were demolished. In the background: belfry with cast iron spire (placed in 1851, removed in 1911).

Reason

Rare colour image of a church that has changed a lot since the time of the photo: the image shows the state of the church just before before the houses in front of the church were demolished, and before the church was thoroughy restored.

Added bonus: a UNESCO World Heritage site as it looked for only about 60 years, between 1851 and 1911. The belfry in the background is shown here with the cast iron campanile which replaced the medieval wooden spire in 1851 (and which was itself replaced by a stone bell tower in 1913).

Articles this image appears in

Fotochroom, Sint-Niklaaskerk (Gent), Saint Nicholas' Church, Ghent, Église Saint-Nicolas de Gand

Creator

Detroit Publishing Company

• Support as nominator --Mvuijlst (talk) 01:43, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
• You created this image? --jjron (talk) 12:47, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
  • I downloaded this image from the Library of Congress, removed dust and scratches, removed the white border, colour-corrected the image, and removed some banding in the sky. -- 194.78.87.75 (talk) 12:55, 9 March 2009 (UTC) sorry, preceding comment was -- Mvuijlst (talk) 12:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
    • So that makes you an editor, not a creator. --jjron (talk) 07:33, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
      • Ah, I see. I wasn't around in the late 1çth century, so no, I did not create the image. :) This was my first attempt at putting a picture up for FP, won't happen again. Sorry. -- Mvuijlst (talk) 22:49, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
• Support - although you missed a speck just right of the church, which you may want to do a minor edit to fix (Yes, I know. Really picky.) =) Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 13:25, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
• Support. Very nice. Synergy 20:50, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
• Temporary oppose - Watermarked. — neuro^(talk) 00:11, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

• Whoops, I mistook that for a digital watermark. Support. — neuro^(talk) 00:24, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

• Support. Note that some of our existing photochrom FPs do have the publishers' original marks. Tastes differ among restorationists. Durova^Charge! 00:20, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Promoted File:Sint-Niklaaskerk, Gent2.jpg MER-C 08:41, 19 March 2009 (UTC)