Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hagia Sophia

Hagia Sophia

The former church and mosque is now a meuseum.

This Picture shows the Hagia Sophia at an angle, with trees at it's base. The Hagia Sophia is an important symbol of the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and of Turkey; it also inspired the architecture for many churches and mosques. I think it is a good picture of an interesting subject and I therefore nominate it. This image was taken by Robert Raderschatt and apears in more articles than I can count (mainly Mosque, Hagia Sophia, and Istanbul).

Nominate and Support AndonicO 17:47, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. The composition is ok but the image is overexposed, very blurry and has some serious compression artifacts. --KFP 18:29, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Major jpg artifacts/graininess. This image feels like a tourist snap-shot: nothing exceptional. --Pharaoh Hound (talk) 18:59, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Pharaoh Hound HighInBC 20:10, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Strange appearance (grain, oversharpening?) -Adrian Pingstone 22:21, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Long been one of my favorite monuments but this image's quality is very poor. Arad 22:55, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose overexposed, a good, but not great image of a very photogenic place --rogerd 23:26, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - I have seen much better pictures of the Hagia Sophia. --Ineffable3000 02:16, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Just not too great a photo. Staxringold _talk^contribs 15:37, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Outstanding Monument Poor Picture!!!! Abdullah Geelah 19:04, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted Raven4x4x 04:13, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]