Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Algonquin

The Algonquin


I think that this photograph is a nice representation of the famous Algonquin, affectionately deemed "Canada's Seaside Castle." The building is in a small coastal resort town in New Brunswick, Canada called St. Andrew's. The structure was pretty eary and deserted on this particular overcast day during the off-season which makes for an interesting perspective as well. (If someone could compress the size of the photo to make it better in focus, it would be appreciated immensely.)


 * Self-Nominate and support. - GarrettRock 01:40, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Support FireSpike 02:50, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Support Nice pic. Jam01 04:51, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak Support the white balance is way off, if you did auto levels I think it'd help the image greatly, I find it distracting.Pinkstarmaci 04:52, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I have posted the unedited picture if anyone wants to play around with it. - GarrettRock 14:20, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose First, I think the shot probably should have been taken from a few feet higher to be level with the ground floor. Beyond that, I see this as similar to my first nomination (this picture). It's a solid picture that displays the subject matter but it's not really... different or spectacular in a FP kind of way. Staxringold talkcontribs 17:56, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * oppose doesn't strike me as exceptionally beatiful or amazing --Vircabutar 05:22, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Symbol oppose vote.svg|15px]] Oppose Per Vircabutar --Fir0002 09:40, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose it's clear, but not especially remarkable. You wonder, "where is the front of this building?"; "Does this hotel really not have a sign with its name on it?"; "Is this hotel in the middle of the suburbs or in the country?"; "What is the deal with that cannon?" - in other words, there's not a lot of context, and the cropping is *very* tight - uncomfortably so on the left hand side. There's also some kind of perspective distortion that makes the wall at the left look like it's leaning backwards (and ditto on the right). The foreground is also poorly chosen - a bit of driveway(?)/road(?), an unplanted garden, some grass. I get this huge feeling looking at the image that there's a massive bulldozer or three prostitutes or something hidden just out of sight that the photorgapher doesn't want us to see. Stevage 11:31, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Raven4x4x 00:49, 13 August 2006 (UTC)