Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Wesley Bell

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Original – St. Louis prosecutor Wesley Bell during the Ferguson unrest in 2014

Alternate – edited background

Reason: This portrait is of a very high quality. The image is striking. It has good contrast, is in focus, is of a high resolution, and adds very high value to the Wesley Bell article and may add value to other articles within a similar scope, such as those related to St. Louis or the Ferguson unrest. The photo has not been digitally altered, other than to crop from the original (which can be found in the extract data on the file page). I truly feel that among portraits, this image is among Wikipedia's best work.
Articles in which this image appears: Wesley Bell
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political
Creator: Jamelle Bouie

Support as nominator – AllegedlyHuman (talk) 23:27, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Good expression, but the image is somewhat marred by the pole through his head. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:26, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

David, I can remove the pole and upload an edited file if that's your only concern. Bammesk (talk) 01:09, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- I'd at least be interested in seeing what that looks like. It is currently my only concern, and I don't think that level of manipulation would be problematic (it's not really an important part of the image background). —David Eppstein (talk) 01:25, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Working on it, should have it tomorrow. Bammesk (talk) 04:19, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support Alt – Bammesk (talk) 03:26, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support either though I'd honestly prefer a looser crop. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.7% of all FPs} 04:23, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support either but prefer Alt. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:14, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Alt. --Gnosis (talk) 07:47, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Bammesk, this is incredible work, and something I couldn't have done myself. It looks great—like that frame was never there. Thanks so much. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 01:53, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support alt. MER-C 19:24, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support alt --Andrei (talk) 23:35, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]