Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Three Arch Bay

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Reason: Three Arch Bay in Laguna was named after the shape seen here of the arching of the rocks to form the Three Arches this exclusive area is named after. Few people even know these pools are here, located in South Laguna Beach the Three Arch Bay pools are a local secret treasure. The original pool square pool was built in 1929 by the famous director and producer Edward H. Griffith, seen in the center of the photo. This entire community was sold, in 1926 for $135,000.00. Today the original Edward H. Griffith, home featuring the original pool is on the market and will run you a cool 25 million: including the original pool and private beach, an interior that would have you feeling like "Pete the Pirate" and your own personal "Light House" reading room to allow you to "Edit Wikipedia in Style"! The classic 1935 Warner Bros. film "Captain Blood", nominated for an Academy Award, was also filmed in Three Arch Bay, starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill and Basil Rathbone so you will be in good company!
Articles in which this image appears: Southern California - Laguna Beach, California - Coastal California - South Coast (California) - Orange County, California - Edward H. Griffith - Captain Blood (1935 film) - Give Us This Night - Aerial photography - Photogrammetry.....
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Urban
Creator: WPPilot

Support as nominator – - ℅ ✰WPPilot✰ ^echo 20:13, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - clear and nice. This reminds me of the several lucky months I spent at Uncle Bert's house in California, makes me almost homesick... Hafspajen (talk) 22:20, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Alchemist-hp (talk) 19:47, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Love the photograph, but if the central aspect of this image is the pools, then there is a problem. There's little discussion of it in the article. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:12, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The photo is really more about Three Arch Bay Features, then just the pools. As you see, I also contributed it to the page on the first pools creator. ~~It can easily be added, plenty of ref's externally now.~~-done. This is, as far as I know the only place in California that has this "feature" so to speak. I ~~will~~ have tweek'ed LB to include more on this subject. Thanks.. talk→ WPPilot 03:28, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe it should be used in more articles, like something about California, Laguna Beach, Californian coastline, Californian arhitecturen, (I remember that was rather specific, low houses, palms and Spanish influences) or dito town planing. If it had the potential to make me nostalgic, than it has the potential to give a good idea of the place. Hafspajen (talk) 05:26, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

All great ideas that I have implemented. Thank you. I have been shooting this "subject" for years and without question this is my best shot of the area, ever. I have a few other places it can work well too. talk→ WPPilot 06:38, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

^{On a personal note: I, as a kid would pack a lunch and ride my jetski here. Eat in the cave and take a dip in the pool before returning to the harbor. Only now after writing this do I realize how lucky I was to do that, those were the days - WPPilot.....}

Support - works better now with the discussion in the article. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:08, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
'Support Good quality for an aerial shot. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 03:49, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Very nice.-Jobas (talk) 19:24, 8 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Three Arch Bay Photo Taken by pilot Don Ramey Logan.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:17, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]