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Original - Stephen Merchant in November 2009
Initial unedited image
Reason
After contacting Merchant's publicist for an image to support his article, I received this great portrait. I also reached the author of the image and she acknowledged it was able to be released under the CC-BY-SA. Besides the fun process of securing the image to be released under a free license, I find this to be an excellent, high-quality capture of the comedic actor.
Articles in which this image appears
Stephen Merchant
FP category for this image
People - Entertainment
Creator
Carolyn Djanogly
Although it would be nice to have the top not cropped as much, I don't think it detracts from the subject (if he was known for wearing a hat or had some unusual hairstyle, I'd probably also want the lesser crop). As we already see the majority of his hairstyle, it's not that much of a loss for the upper ~tenth. Rather than ask for a new image, I'd like to contact the author to see if she would be willing to release other images of other actors, but I'm waiting for the outcome of this nomination first. I was definitely surprised with the resolution provided, so far 99% of the images I've received permission for come no where near this. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talkcontrib) 06:33, 17 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:StephenMerchantAltNov09.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 06:42, 25 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]