Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Hernando de Soto Bridge Memphis.jpg

Original - Hernando de Soto Bridge and the Memphis skyline photographed from the Arkansas side.

Reason: This is is a superb view of the Hernando de Soto Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee. Photogaphed apparently in the early evening, it shows the bridge in a heavy haze while the setting sun casts a perfect shadow on the Mississippi River. Somehow the shadow and bridge, taken together, suggest the body of a guitar, so emblematic of Memphis musical culture. The work does not appear to have been to have been photoshopped or otherwise altered, though it may have been cropped.
Articles this image appears in: Memphis, Tennessee, Hernando de Soto Bridge, Portal:Tennessee/Selected picture
Creator: Larry Donald, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Support as nominator Verne Equinox (talk) 03:41, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
oppose far too noisy/artifacted at full rez. de Bivort 03:55, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - incredibly poor quality, horrible image at full size, which is what we're voting on. I do however support this being included on WIAFP? to illustrate heavy artifacting. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ φ 11:39, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

On a side note, welcome back Vanderdecken. I haven't seen you here in awhile, almost since my first few weeks here almost a year ago, in fact, it'll be 1 year on the 16th, wow does time fly. -Fcb981^{(talk:contribs)} 22:26, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've been active constantly on WP, but just haven't voted regularly on FPC for quite a while. Not that many pics that interested me on here recently, but I still check the page every day with my watchlist. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ φ 15:45, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

neutral nice composition, and eye-catching, but a bit too grainy for me. (just a bit, have some perspective). --Bridgecross (talk) 16:19, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Looked so good at thumbnail size :( --⁪ffroth 16:37, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose very pleasing at 800px, why the heavy compression artifacts. Is there a better version someplace? -Fcb981^{(talk:contribs)} 22:40, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Sadly.. but there are just too many artifacts + rather low res.. Yzmo ^talk 23:55, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Reasons above. —αἰτίας •discussion• 02:01, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per reasons above. What a terrible shame, since I agree that the shadow=guitar effect for a bridge in Memphis is striking and charming.Spikebrennan (talk) 03:37, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 04:42, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]