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File:Covered board sidewalk in Tombstone, Arizona - May 1940.jpg, not featured edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 25 Apr 2023 at 17:25:35 (UTC)
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  • Gallery: Commons:Featured_pictures/Places/Architecture/Exteriors#United_States (I think?)
  •   Info created by Russell Lee - restored, uploaded, and nominated by Adam Cuerden -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:25, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Support -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:25, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • I won't support with this crop on the left and right. Yann (talk) 08:46, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    That's not a crop; that's the original photo borders. Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:46, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    That's a scan from a negative, right? Do we know how it was printed? To me that really looks like it was shot with the intention to apply a square crop to the final print: It would have been easy to avoid the car on the left and the frame on the right by moving forward just a bit. It seems the photographer was more concerned about getting more of the roof and boardwalk into the frame but didn't bother to shoot in portrait orientation - and there would have been no point in doing so if he was shooting for 1:1 anyway. I like this shot - to me as a European it looks like a still from a John Wayne movie. Probably would have supported a square crop, whether it was intended by the photographer or not. El Grafo (talk) 08:10, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Would you offer a square crop as an alternative? Yann (talk) 11:43, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    @Yann probably a bit too late now, looking at the date. And in any case, I'd like to hear @Adam Cuerden's view on this first. Might be worth a try to wait a bit and then try again with new nomination? El Grafo (talk) 15:08, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I don't know how much this was intended to be cropped: This was from a survey programme, so it's hard to say how much it was intended to be adjusted, if any. Note that the buildings in the rear are significant, though: One of the usages actually depends on them being in frame as they're the only image we have of them before some structural changes. Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:53, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Oppose Maybe it's my relative photographic naivety showing, but regretfully I'm not really seeing a Featured Picture. The restoration is good and it's obviously high resolution, but as noted above the composition (in-camera "crop") is meh at best and it doesn't seem to portray an especially interesting covered walkway. It may have been taken by a respected photographer, but doesn't seem to me to be among his best work. Happy to be convinced otherwise if there's something I'm missing. BigDom (talk) 07:57, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Neutral I would support, maybe, with a crop in at both sides to focus on the walkway, but ... since it seems part of this nomination is that it's an image taken by a renowned photographer, imposing our own crop on it may be antithetical to our values. Daniel Case (talk) 17:20, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 1 support, 1 oppose, 1 neutral → not featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 22:14, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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