Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:The Beacon Staunton Country Park.JPG

The Beacon
Voting period ends on 8 Mar 2011 at 23:05:03 (UTC)
 * Reason:It has good contrast, accurate exposure and neutral colour balance (well at least that is what the image histogram strongly suggests). It meets the pixel criteria. Its probably the most photogenic of what's left of Sir George Staunton's work in Staunton Country Park (The Shell House is heavily shaded and damaged, the Chinese bridge has been reduced to it's bare structure and the lake has been altered). It adds value to the article in that it shows the structure and gives some idea of what the park would have been like before William Henry Stone got his hands on it and the trees became somewhat overgrown. The only editing done is a slight rotation and crop.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Staunton Country Park,Lewis Vulliamy,Folly
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
 * Creator:Geni


 * Support as nominator --©Geni 23:05, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
 * It doesn't really feel like it has strong EV at the moment. This is more of a reflection on the article (which really focuses on the park itself) than the image. What about creating an article for the Beacon itself? JJ Harrison (talk) 10:45, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I've dropped it into Lewis Vulliamy. I could probably justify putting it in Sir George Staunton, 2nd Baronet and even Leigh Park. An article on the thing itself though isn't really possible. There isn't much about it left I haven't already mentioned (it it is the centre of one of the 3 paintings of Staunton's gardens and a flag was flown from it to indicate if Staunton was at home). It's notable as part of the series of follies that Staunton built and as I have already mentioned the others have either been destroyed, lost, seriously damaged, altered or are not very photographable.©Geni 00:34, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * What do you think about Folly? JJ Harrison (talk) 09:00, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Tricky. I've dropped it into the follies article but eh that article needs some serious reworking of both the images and text.©Geni 02:51, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 00:14, 9 March 2011 (UTC)