Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:The Breakers Newport.jpg

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Original - The Breakers, the summer home of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, located in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. It was built in 1893, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1994.
Reason
The Breakers is an historically significant mansion originally used as a summer home by the Vanderbilt family; it is currently a tourist attraction in Newport and the most famous mansion along its cliff walk. This building is the quintessential American gilded age home. This photo shows some of the great architecture in the 'summer home' while minimizing intrusion of people. This is the rear façade of the building; the Atlantic Ocean is to my 4 or 5 o'clock.
Articles in which this image appears
The Breakers, Rhode Island, Mansion, Vanderbilt family, Vanderbilt houses, Newport, Rhode Island, National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island, List of National Historic Landmarks in Rhode Island, Gilded Age, Template:Newport Mansions
FP category for this image
Places/Architecture
Creator
UpstateNYer (talk · contribs) (self nom)
Too much contrast then? I'm no expert, but the colours don't look realistic. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 15:27, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
They are realistic. I made no post-processing efforts other than correcting distortion. upstateNYer 18:29, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I do note that the contrast on your camera was set on "hard" for this photo. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 00:56, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps a bit much contrast, and the white balance is a bit blue I think. JJ Harrison (talk) 10:01, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 00:35, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]