Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/DC protest

Original

Alternative 1

Original Crop-Not for voting

Reason: It's a high quality, striking image of a anti-war protest.
Proposed caption: Soldiers and civilians march down 15th street NW in Washington DC in protest to the Iraq war.
Articles this image appears in: Protest, Opposition to the Iraq War, Flag desecration
Creator: User: Lipton_Sale

Support as nominator Lipton sale (talk) 05:08, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose alt, support original Could probably benefit from a bit of downsampling, but the angle shows a lot of the march, and the selective focus I find moves the attention around nicely. de Bivort 05:14, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose both Not very illustrative or compelling. It would help greatly to be elevated from the march so that we can see more than a handful of people. Ideally I would be able to read more than a couple of signs. This photo is a good example of what I mean: Cacophony (talk) 06:07, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I like it because it gives the eye-level perspective, and conveys what it's like to be in a protest. de Bivort 17:52, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The encyclopedic value of these images for Protest is marginal. It probably fits better in Iraq Veterans Against the War. Noclip (talk) 17:59, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The balance of the shot is killing it for me. Is there a version with more of the bottom of the frame? --mikaul^talk 18:41, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I like the one with the flags a bit more, but there's no proper bottom (and a sign is obviously cut off, would have been very readable). I'm adding this to the image-light Opposition to the Iraq War. The other one shows individuals a little better but has less oomph. --Dhartung | Talk 00:12, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I also added it to flag desecration#United States, as it may be the only photo of an upside-down US flag we have (there's an SVG used only on userpages). Note that it is there as an example of a constitutionally protected use. --Dhartung | Talk 06:57, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose both Per above. ^8thstar 02:40, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment can you please add more information about the image to its page? gren グレン 12:21, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support original, oppose alt Technically great, I love the colours. It could probably have done with a larger crop, but otherwise ok. -- Chris.B | talk 15:45, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I added the original uncropped version for comparison, and to show the reason why I cropped it so the large banner at the bottom could not be read. The fact of the matter was that there was nothing there to be read, and that someone's microphone got into my shot. When I took this photo, I saw standing on the back of a moving pickup truck with several other photographers, and could not avoid having something intrude into my photo. Lipton sale (talk) 09:12, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Not a very appealing shot, definitely not the best that WP has to offer in terms of shots of this category. Cat-five - talk 23:23, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 04:48, 24 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]