Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mount Rushmore, South Dakota

 
Original - The Mount Rushmore monumental sculpture of South Dakota, depicting (from left to right) U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln
Reason
An iconic image for an iconic monument; violates no FP criteria that I am aware of and is 2,000 × 1,333 pixels in size.
Articles this image appears in
Mount Rushmore, South Dakota
Creator
Dean Franklin
Cool! Thanks.--Pericles of AthensTalk 17:48, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The photographer sent me the original; unfortunately, it's a jpeg, but it's well-exposed. I played around with it some, but I couldn't get the same level of pop as in this version without blowing out the highlights. Someone more skilled than me might want to take a crack at it: File:Dean Franklin - 06.04.03 Mount Rushmore Monument (by-sa) - original.jpg. --ragesoss (talk) 00:15, 4 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Not promoted Feel free to try again with a new version. --Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 19:07, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]