Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Kuwait Towers

Kuwait Towers edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 21 Jun 2014 at 10:34:56 (UTC)

Original – The Kuwait Towers is a group of three slender towers in Kuwait City, standing on a promontory into the Persian Gulf.

Reason: High quality/resolution photos about a notable building. Already featured on Commons and the German Wikipedia.
Articles in which this image appears: Kuwait Towers (most EV), Kuwait City
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
Creator: Richard Bartz

Support as nominator – Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:34, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support. Detail and technical quality is excellent, but the composition is a bit bland. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 16:16, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Composition may be a bit bland, but I think it's fairly encyclopedic. Nice to have another image of the Middle East to feature. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:27, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - it does appear a bit insipid at thumbnail, but there's so much great detail when viewed at full-res that it's hard not to like the image. I'm not sure how I would have better composed it, so I'll offer my support. There is an empty soda can in the foreground that I wish had been kicked out of the way or later cloned out, but most won't notice it I'm sure. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 20:46, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- It's slightly unfair to comment on how the composition could have been improved because there's often good reasons for why a particular framing was chosen, but my first thoughts were that I would have either cropped more of the foreground and centred the towers (there's slightly more space on the right side) or moved slightly to the left so that the three towers comprised more of the horizontal field of view. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 21:28, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with Ðiliff re composition — it begs for a shift to the left. But the structures are striking, almost shockingly so, and perhaps not well known in the English-speaking world. What do others think? Sca (talk) 21:38, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support good detail (and EV) at full resolution.--Godot13 (talk) 05:22, 16 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Fantastic detail at full resolution. Composition is only okay, but likely limited by the environment. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 14:51, 16 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Okay, striking structural forms. Sca (talk) 00:50, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Alchemist-hp (talk) 06:32, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Kuwait Towers RB.jpg Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 12:30, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]