Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Black Sea in 1915

Black Sea in 1915
View of the Black Sea near Sochi is a colour photograph by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, taken in 1915. The image is featured in the articles Sochi, Black Sea, and Argonauts.

Public domain from the Library of Congress website.

See http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/prokc.21643 for more information and the raw image.


 * Nominated and supported on 30 Dec 2004 by User:Ghirlandajo
 * Support. Not the most gripping subject and we already have some quite good sunsets. However Prokudin-Gorskii seems to have been a pioneer in perfecting the techniques for early colour photography. James Clerk Maxwell may have got the first colour photo in 1861, but it took Prokudin-Gorskii to get the result looking realistic. My only question would be is this the best example to choose (it quite possibly is). I find the Library of Congress torturous to navigate, but I also came across an excellent discussion of Prokudin-Gorskii's portraits of Tolstoy at http://www.utoronto.ca/tolstoy/colorportrait.htm -- Solipsist 11:03, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Support -- good early color work. --Elijah 19:28, 2004 Dec 31 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Just because it's good for its time or it is a pioneeering work doesn't mean that we should ignore the fact that it isn't all that clear and the fact that the horizon isn't that horizontal. Enochlau 02:44, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. So good-looking it's.... amazing. JediMaster16 03:46, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC):
 * Support I say it's stunning. -- AllyUnion (talk) 03:34, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose How can you have a Featured Pic with an obviously sloping horizon? - Adrian Pingstone 10:46, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * The world is not flat you know. -- AllyUnion (talk) 08:25, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * Oppose. Agree with Enochlau. --Fir0002 22:55, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. ugen 64 23:07, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Support - Bevo 22:58, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Neutralitytalk 05:10, Jan 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Beautiful, but it has the horizen problem and seeing a body of water doesn't necessarily help us understand what makes the Black Sea special. -SocratesJedi | Talk 05:42, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Not promoted: +8 / -4 almost a consensus, but not a clear one. -- Solipsist 11:53, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)