Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Philadelphia

The skyline of Philadelphia

**Original - Not for voting** - The skyline of Pennsylvania's largest city Philadelphia. Visible are Center City with the Comcast Center on the left bank of the Schuylkill River and the 30th Street Station with the Cira Centre on the right.

Reason: EV+Quality
Articles this image appears in: Philadelphia and Center City
Creator: Massimo Catarinella

Support as nominator --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 18:04, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Your vantage point was the Girard Avenue bridge near the Philadelphia Zoo, right? Kind of an odd vantage point to take a city panorama, actually, since many of my hometown's landmarks are almost totally obscured by other buildings (such as Philadelphia City Hall, One Liberty Place and Two Liberty Place. The South Street bridge may have been better, but it's currently torn down. The top of the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps, or even the New Jersey State Aquarium are also well-known places from which to photograph Philadelphia. I also note that you just added this image as the lead infobox image for Philadelphia today, replacing this one-- a panorama's dimensions fit awkwardly in an infobox, and may I suggest waiting a while to verify the image's stability in the article before acting on the nom here. I hope you enjoy your visit to Philadelphia (if you're still here). Spikebrennan (talk) 23:08, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It was taken from the Spring Garden Street Bridge behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I had chosen this location, because I thought it was the second best location after the South Street Bridge (which was indeed torn down). I didn't find the top of the steps of the museum a good place to take the shot from, because of a couple of reasons. First of all, it was the day after the fourth of July. The stage which was part of the festivities still stood in the way, so a large part of the skyline was obscured including Philadelphia's City Hall. Another issue for me were the lantern posts and other objects in the foreground, which couldn't be excluded from the photograph. It's true that those three landmarks you named, are excluded mostly from the panorama. The Philadelphia City Hall however would be excluded from a panorama taken from a variety of vantage point, such as the South Street Bridge due to the fact that there are a lot of tall buildings between it and the Schuylkill River. Parts of the City Hall and Two Liberty Place are still present though in this panorama. Two other landmarks are now included due to the fact, that I took the shot from the Spring Garden Street Bridge. Those are the 30th Street Station and the Cira Centre. I do agree that it fits oddly into the lead infobox, but it still looks fine in my opinion. Check out the article about Sydney for instance, which has a similar panorama as lead image. I was only there for two days, so I'm no longer in Philly. I did however enjoyed my visit :). --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 23:41, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The suitability of the photo in the Philadelphia lead infobox is already being discussed here. Spikebrennan (talk) 15:03, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I would like to suspend this one, while I'll work on a better version of edit 1. --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 22:34, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I've created and uploaded the new panorama and inserted in the articles. Before nominating it again, I'm going to let it settle in there for a couple of days to a week. --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 22:34, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support Original Between the two of them, my preference is for the original nom: the lighting on the trees is better, and buildings such as the Comcast Center (the tallest one in the shot, on the left) look more attractive in the original nom. Spikebrennan (talk) 20:13, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- You have a point. I get the feeling that there is a lot of room for brightening the shadow detail of Edit 1 up though. Do you take requests Massimo? Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 15:36, 20 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Since it is for the well being of Wikipedia, yes, I take request ;) . I'll start working on it now. Check out the rest of my comment on the talk page of Philadelphia. --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 00:07, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Flat lighting unfortunately, but it's a view that has good EV. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 12:29, 20 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
~~Support~~ Still lots in it even if some landmarks are missing. Noodle snacks (talk) 00:22, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Dear Wikipedians, there is still no definite version on this panorama. When it's ready, I will move the nomination again to the top. --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 00:39, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Suggestion to suspend nom. Per the Philadelphia article talk page, there's an ongoing horse race between Massimo and User:Emy111 to supply the lead infobox image for the Philadelphia article. I suggest nomming the eventual winner of that argument, whichever it is. Spikebrennan (talk) 13:47, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- If you check above, the nom has already been suspended by the nominator for all the reasons you cited, but others wikipedians voted without reading his comment. ;) Ksempac (talk) 14:32, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This was suspended more than 5 days ago. Consider it so. wadester 16 03:14, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This nomination may be unsuspended. I've corrected all flaws in the previous version and the discussion on the article's talk page is over. I'll be unavailable from the 27th of July till the 9th of August (heading over to Portugal (Lisbon+Algarve), so that's also a reason, why I'm reinstating the voting process now. --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 12:04, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unsuspended per request from nominator. --jjron (talk) 13:27, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support final edited version. Durova²⁸⁵ 18:03, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Avala (talk) 20:01, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support as before. Noodle snacks (talk) 06:52, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Can people 'revoting' strike their previous votes please. --jjron (talk) 08:23, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom, with thanks to Massimo for his saint-like patience (especially with the rather silly cat-fight on Talk:Philadelphia). Spikebrennan (talk) 16:36, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Suggest crop. Panoramas are always too wide. Suggest trimming this one slightly smaller than "edit 1", so just left of the leftmost buildings, and just cutting out the red crane behind the train station, on the right hand side. What are the weird white streaks in the sky to the right of the red crane though? Stevage 03:24, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:GardenStreetBridgeSchuylkillRiverSkylinePhiladelphiaPennsylvania.jpg --wadester 16 03:32, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]