Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Seattle 2

Seattle

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 7 Oct 2015 at 10:54:01 (UTC)

Reason: The photo shows a excellent view of the city and the largest city of the US state of Washington.
Articles in which this image appears: Seattle
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Places/Urban
Creator: Prod0016 from Wikimedia Commons

Support as nominator – cyrfaw (talk) 10:54, 27 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support —Jobas (talk) 11:03, 27 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support, quite striking and emblematic. — Cirt (talk) 16:09, 27 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Eye-catching and of high quality. sst^flyer 17:16, 27 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose It's pretty but it doesn't actually show much of Seattle and suffers from not including its best-known landmark. I prefer this one. I guess this image is mis-captioned in the article too, as we'd normally refer to such low lying cloud coming off the sea as fog. Belle (talk) 21:38, 27 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I too prefer the image linked by Belle. Although this is a nice photograph, much of the city, including it's most prominent landmark, is obscured by fog. Although aesthetically pleasing, this obscuring of the city means it has reduced encyclopedic value. The best EV would be a very clear image of the CBD and surroundings. Mattximus (talk) 22:26, 27 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose As above EV wise - large swathes of the city are covered in fog. Pretty, but not helpful encylopedia wise. There also seems to be a few perspective issues too - most noticably the green/blue lit building bottom left ish seems to have a greater lean on the left edge of the building to the right edge of the same building. I would take a screen shot to demonstrate but my work computer settings prevent that... also the lower ground to the right of the picture is very blurry and noisy... gazhiley 09:48, 28 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Doesn't the fog ADD EV value since Seattle is pretty foggy? Nergaal (talk) 20:16, 28 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- It adds EV to Fog, but it hides too much of the city so can't add enough EV to Seattle... gazhiley 09:19, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose although I agree with Nergala that the fog provides enough EV (and BTW, the Space Needle is in it, although atypically for Seattle it does not dominate this view of the skyline. See the annotations). The image is far too distorted and CA-prone at the sides to be featurable. Daniel Case (talk) 02:37, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Local being very pedantic: Daniel Case, it is not typical for the Space Needle to dominate the Seattle skyline because it's a mile north of the central business district, where the tallest skyscrapers have surpassed its height since the 1980s. Photos of Seattle in which the Space Needle looks taller than other towers are all taken from the north, usually Queen Anne Hill, where the Needle is well in the foreground. This photo gives a better idea of how the Needle and the downtown skyscrapers relate to each other: Commons:SeattleSkylineSuperPanorama.jpg. 98.247.144.23 (talk) 05:48, 5 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support I see the Space Needle and quite a lot of Seattle. Even the fog is typical of the area, so why complaining? --Tremonist (talk) 14:28, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think the main point was summarized above, it's great EV for fog, but not great EV for the skyline of Seattle. An encyclopaedia entry for a city wouldn't have half the skyline obscured by fog. Mattximus (talk) 23:43, 30 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]