Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/USMC War Memorial Night

Marine Corps War Memorial at night edit

File:USMC War Memorial Night-edit.jpg
Original - Night image of United States Marine Corps Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery
Reason
I think this is a very good image with very high EV.
Articles this image appears in
Marine Corps War Memorial, Felix de Weldon, George Washington Memorial Parkway, United States Marine Corps
Creator
Unknown but is a work of the US Government
  • Support as nominator --Kumioko (talk) 19:55, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose The angle of the shot is unpleasant; I would have preferred an image showing the figure's faces. ZooFari 04:55, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment IMHO this is the best way to take this picture. The memorial is a direct reference to this famous picture with soldiers going from left to right, and faces not visible. Ksempac (talk) 06:55, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose I think you'd struggle to find a 10px square of that picture that's not displaying heavy jpeg artifacting.--bad_germ 07:56, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per above. MER-C 08:28, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. This was previously nominated in April 2006 and failed to get much support. Standards have increased significantly since then. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 13:54, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per above. Noodle snacks (talk) 08:30, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - A lot of image noise. - Damërung . -- 22:19, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 15:44, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]