Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Dunn Tire Park and HSBC Arena

Dunn Tire Park and HSBC Arena

Dunn Tire Park and HSBC Arena (Buffalo) in a light dusting of snow

cropped version

This captures the beauty of nature and metropolitan life simultaneously.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 08:33, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Also, note that since the stadium has been renamed Coca-Cola Field, this picture with the Dunn Tire park ornamentation is now historic.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 03:56, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Creator: TonyTheTiger

Nominated by: TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 08:33, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

You say this on a few of your noms here, but I don't get it - where's "...the beauty of nature"? Not much nature that I can see... --jjron (talk) 16:55, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I mean the natural element of a light dusting of snow.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 19:51, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Eh, thought you might have been referring to that - not being smart, but I don't think you're going to sell too many people on that. I mean, if it really showed the beauty of nature and metro you might have this scene with the dusting of snow and some beautiful plant surroundings all under a stunning blue sky. This is all a pretty dull grey for the most part. Not much point trying to sell it as something it's not. :-) --jjron (talk) 05:38, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - I see by your most recent FPC that you are a beach fan. In Buffalo, they do love their snow. This has less perspective distortion than most, but no blue sky. Does it have a shot at VP?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 06:42, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      - Not while it's only in an image gallery... While you're at it you'd want to crop the edges to take out those hangers-on, and probably rotate about a degree CCW. And to be honest, it shows more about those nondescript buildings down front than the C-C Field. I'm not really sure you'd be able to get an external FP/VP of this place, at least from this angle. It all seems too busy. --jjron (talk) 16:25, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        I'd love to knock down those obstructing buildings for the sake of WP. This is taken from the top floor of a downtown parking garage. It is probable that a less obstructed shot could be taken from the Ellicott Square Building see PPR on this page. Also, on the Dunn Tire Park page you can see that One HSBC Center would also accomodate a good shot with a wideangle lens. I do not think I have any software to do any rotation. I don't mind cropping the right. On the left is Erie Community College main campus. I think that is a historic building that I have half of. Should that really be cropped? If we crop the buildings in front, we also lose the snow, which contributes to the character of the image.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 17:03, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        
        I moved the gallery into the text. Do I still have to wait a month?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 17:07, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        Eh, it's been in the article, just the wrong spot, so I guess it meets the essence of the time requirement. I meant crop left and right, not necessarily the bottom. At the left there's a couple of odd little things poking in in the sky that need to be cropped out, the building's not so bad (given the stadium goes behind it). Oh, and there's too much sky. --jjron (talk) 12:01, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        I cropped it retaining the 4:3 ratio. I could get rid of more sky taking it to 3:2. Do you want more cropped on the left or right?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 18:16, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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