Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Long Room Interior, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - Diliff.jpg

The Long Room, Trinity College, Dublin

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 7 Sep 2015 at 00:31:03 (UTC)

Original – The Long Room of Trinity College, Dublin

Reason: It's an incredibly interesting, aesthetically pleasing and historically valuable image of the interior of the Long Room. This image didn't come easy. I had to sweet talk the security guards into letting me use a tripod and also to allow me to stay back once all the visitors had left. I had literally no more than a minute or two to shoot this as they didn't have any patience for not closing up on time! The Long Room an authentic early 18th century university library, but these days is more of a tourist attraction than a working library. It looks nice and empty here, but it's usually heaving with people and because no tripods are (usually) allowed, the quality of the photography of the room is usually very poor. This image is by some margin the best image of the room on Commons, and as best I can tell, probably the best image in existence of the room anywhere online.
Articles in which this image appears: Trinity College Library and Trinity College, Dublin
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Interiors
Creator: User:Diliff

Support as nominator – Ðiliff «» (Talk) 00:31, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Um, wow... --Godot13 (talk) 03:23, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Could tell this was a Ðiliff as I was scrolling down, before I even got to the nomination text... Superb quality, detail and nice back story... Nice work! gazhiley 07:45, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Tremonist (talk) 12:23, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – I'm impressed – no, overawed. Sca (talk) 13:45, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks, I personally think this is one of the best interiors that I've ever taken. The subject, the framing and the image quality. I actually waited until now to upload it so I could enter it into Wiki Loves Monuments Ireland 2015. ;-) I was the one of the judges of WLM UK 2013 and 2014 and sadly couldn't enter it, but this year I'm free! Ðiliff «» (Talk) 14:42, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- No words -- DreamSparrow ^Chat 18:19, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Just plain beautiful. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 04:13, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - an excellent photograph in every way. SkywalkerPL (talk) 21:21, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Absolutely great! --Yann (talk) 22:09, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I would be very, very surprised if this is not a finalist in the POTY competition. Josh Milburn (talk) 21:06, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- with luck you may be right, although my church interiors didn't do so well last year as they tend to be less interesting in thumbnail view than a detailed view. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 15:05, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Sigh, wonderful... Hafspajen (talk) 18:44, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Excellent image with high EV. Would be nice to get rid of those vivid green ropes though: don't fit the aesthetics nor the purpose of a library. --ELEKHH^T 09:13, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – I don't generally vote if something is already going to pass with a significant margin but this photo is just so exceptionally "double wow"; superb quality with tremendous EV. SagaciousPhil - Chat 14:14, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Excellent. HereToHelp ^{(talk to me)} 19:28, 5 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Long Room Interior, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - Diliff.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:37, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]