Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel

The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel
Voting period ends on 13 Jul 2013 at 21:44:30 (UTC)
 * Reason:
 * High resolution painting of the Holyrood Abbey lit by moonlight by French artist, stage designer, and photographer Louis Daguerre. Conflicting dates, but around 1824, Daguerre built and exhibited a 70-foot wide diorama of the ruins of this abbey and would backlight it, revealing "a ghostly figure wandering in the moonlit Gothic ruin" (source for quote). This painting was created after this effect, minus—in this version—the figure.


 * I removed a one pixel extremely dark (almost black, but not quite) border on the right and bottom edges, and then I copied five pixels from part of the sky to cover up a five-pixel hair or glitch at the very, very top right corner. I left the dangling part simply because it appears more natural than the pixel-straight glitch and isn't distracting to me.


 * Articles in which this image appears:The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
 * Creator:Louis Daguerre


 * Support as nominator --– Kerαu noςco pia ◁ gala xies 21:44, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Support What a lovely painting! Adam Cuerden (talk) 18:12, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Support Concur with Adam, nice paining! -- WingtipvorteX  PTT   ∅  23:49, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Support Interesting and nicely painted. Brandmeistertalk  15:28, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Support - Nikhil(talk) 10:41, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 21:56, 13 July 2013 (UTC)