Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Tower Bridge panorama

Tower bridge panorama edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 20 Mar 2015 at 00:56:38 (UTC)

Original – Panorama of the Tower Bridge from Shad Thames in the morning golden hour. Built 1886–1894, it is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London which crosses the River Thames, near the Tower of London.

Reason: High quality image of the bridge itself. We currently have a FP, but it's a night view of somewhat smaller resolution (and sadly not used in the article anymore)
Articles in which this image appears: Tower Bridge +1
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Places/Architecture
Creator: Colin

Support as nominator – — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:56, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I find the positioning of the background buildings right across the middle of the bridge rather awkward and distracting. I wonder whether another angle could be found to avoid this clash. 109.157.12.109 (talk) 12:30, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support One can't remove the background. Other pictures in article or commons are much worse. Hafspajen (talk) 18:15, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per 109.157.12.109. Better composition is possible. Samsara 17:03, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- you mean you are posting it as an allt? Though, the nominated picture is 15,287 × 7,643 pixels, this one is only 5000x3000px. Hafspajen (talk) 19:37, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm happy with the argument that a wider lens or stitch is preferable - my point was that a photographer can position themselves such that the background clutter is reduced, which is where Diego succeeded. I think we can afford to wait for a better shot. Btw, Diliff's night shot also achieves this. I can't say how good that same vantage point would be during the day, but it's worth a thought. Samsara 22:18, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - Can I just say that I know from Colin's Commons FPC nomination that he deliberately chose this composition so that the various buildings in the background were framed by the bridge. Whether this was successful or not is up to you to decide, but it wasn't an accident. Anyway, none of my night shots of the bridge are taken from this direction so the problem of buildings was not an issue. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 17:26, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support I think this is the best daytime picture of the bridge by some margin (well I would say that, wouldn't I :-). The photo it is being compared with was criticised at Commons for cropping the top off the skyscraper (so I don't accept that that image has a better composition), and the image quality of that photo is much lower (the bridge is less than half the vertical/horizontal resolution and the image shows much less of the bridge). Photos from the upstream side of the bridge have little in their background, and the significant drawback of this is that they therefore provide no context -- the bridge could be anywhere in London. Whereas from this side, we have three new well-known City of London skyscrapers: The Cheesegrater, The Walkie Talkie, The Gherkin, as well as the Tower of London all providing location and orientation. As Diliff says, I framed this to ensure these recognisable skyscrapers were completely visible rather than awkwardly cropped. I think this provides an interesting juxtaposition of old and new within a relatively tight frame, and completely locates this bridge next to the financial heart of the city. -- Colin°^Talk 18:55, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 01:35, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]