Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Lion Tower

Lion Tower, Tripoli
Voting period ends on 21 Mar 2011 at 21:00:03 (UTC)
 * Reason:Last week there was a nomination of a photograph of Tripoli, which did not have sufficient quality to get very far, but I thought it was a worthwhile thing to try to do. [Addendum--I now realized I had my Tripolis mixed up.] This photo not only illustrates its subject better than any modern photographs of the tower on the web, it also shows the quality and precision of the work of the American Colony photographic division (I found an archeologist talking about the value of that work for archeology, and cited her in the American Colony article).  I've cropped it, adjusted the levels slightly, and cloned out a lot of scratches, dust, and other damage, but all the cloning I've done is in the sky and ground; the building is untouched.  The people in the image give a sense of scale; the composition (which I think is aesthetically quite good) shows the integration of the site into the modern infrastructure.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Lion Tower, American Colony, Jerusalem
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
 * Creator:Photographic Division of the American Colony, Jerusalem (most likely Elijah Meyers or Lars Larsson); digitally edited by Chick Bowen


 * Support as nominator --Chick Bowen 21:00, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Support per nom JJ Harrison (talk) 22:59, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Support Not overly eye-catching, but very high quality. Good EV.  Jujutacular  talk 12:56, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Support Wow, I was ready to say "not very eyecatching" like Juju above, but at full res this photo is spectacular. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 21:18, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Edit: but looking at it thumbnail, the comp is bugging me. Can we give the poor building a bit more headroom? Aaadddaaammm (talk) 21:19, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree it would be nice, but there isn't really any there--if you look at the original (linked as a tif from the image page) you can see I cropped probably less than 10 pixels below the border of the negative (and the shade of that bit of sky is off, which is common at the edge of the frame with a view camera like they used). Chick Bowen 22:58, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
 * BTW, I've uploaded a jpeg version of the unedited image for easier comparison: File:Tripoli Tower of Lions unedited.jpg. Chick Bowen 23:06, 15 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Support I opened this only after reading Adam's comment but I must say I'm impressed. Good restoration done as well --Muhammad (talk) 01:37, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 22:05, 21 March 2011 (UTC)