Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dumbarton Rail Bridge Redux

Dumbarton Rail Bridge Redux edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 20 Jul 2021 at 09:11:43 (UTC)

Original – The Dumbarton Rail Bridge, the first bridge built across San Francisco Bay, was opened in 1910 and carried its last train in 1982.

Reason: I nominated Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dumbarton Rail Bridge with a previous version of this photo. My friend, who is a very good photographer, saw this and sent me the following message: "jesus you nommed this thing? cringe". After some helpful advice, I was able to go out and take a far better photo, which I present here for your consideration here. As with the other one, I think it's a well-composed photo that clearly, distinctly and effectively shows the thing it's a photo of, brings encyclopedic value to the articles it's on, and is pretty.
Articles in which this image appears: Dumbarton Rail Bridge (infobox), San Francisco Bay, List of bridges in the United States, Timeline of the San Francisco Bay Area, History of the Southern Pacific
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
Creator: JPxG

Support as nominator – jp×g 09:11, 10 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – This overly distant view of the bridge seems a poor composition lacking readily accessible visual info. – Sca (talk) 12:54, 10 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What's in this picture is a mile away from the shore, and the trestle leading to it was destroyed by arson many years ago; I'm not sure if it is possible to get any closer without a boat. jp×g 23:39, 10 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose may be camera limitations, but soft. Charlesjsharp (talk) 16:03, 10 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The image was only uploaded and added to articles yesterday, so is ineligible for FP status at present (Wikipedia:Featured picture criteria recommends that images be in articles for at least a week before they are nominated for FP status). Nick-D (talk) 05:28, 11 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Nick-D: My understanding is that this rule didn't apply in cases where an image was an improved version of a previous one (the previous one here being File:Dumbarton Rail Bridge 2021.JPG). If this isn't the case, I would be happy to withdraw. Well, not happy, I'd be a little embarrassed at having misinterpreted it, but you get the idea. jp×g 07:55, 11 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I think that this is a fairly different picture, given the lighting is quite different - sunset photos are pretty, but not always the best for EV, so I think that this needs to be in the various articles for a while for reviewers to have confidence that it is accepted by the relevant editors. Nick-D (talk) 07:57, 11 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose An improvement over the previous one but as Charlesjsharp mentioned, it is a bit soft. I'd be interested in seeing a stitched image, with longer focal length --Muhammad(talk) 08:35, 12 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I'm going to withdraw, since it seems this one didn't fly so good. jp×g 03:03, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:39, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn nomination. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:39, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]