Wikipedia:Picture peer review/GreatWallNearBejingWinter

GreatWallNearBeijingWinter.jpg[edit]

The Great Wall of China. This image was taken near Beijing in the wintertime.

I found this image on today's featured article, Invasion. It is also used in the articles Megastructure, Great Wall of China, and New Seven Wonders of the World. It was uploaded to Commons by one Andreas Tille, the photographer. I personally find it very striking. I like how the wall curves over the hills. He must have been quite far away to get so much of it in the picture, yet it looks like you could reach out and touch it. The color has good contrast, with the patches of snow clearly distinguishable from the grass and bare rock and dirt. It gives a good impression of the sheer size of the thing. I don't notice any compression artifiacts or blown highlights. The high-res version is 2048x1299, so it should be big enough. I think it's among the best work on Wikipedia, otherwise I wouldn't be interested in nominating it. It's licensed under the GFDL. It adds value to all of the articles it's used in. It's accurate. I wouldn't be nominating it if I didn't find it pleasing to the eye. The one problem is the caption. Most places where it's used the caption is just something like, "The Great Wall near Bejing in winter" but that's easy enough to fix if other people think the picture itself is FP worthy. Lots can be written about the Great Wall if it is to appear on the Main Page. Lastly, it doesn't seem to be promoting any particular POV.

I'm sending it to peer review to see if others think that it's FP worthy because last time I found an image and nominated it for FP I got a little burned (I didn't know how to find out the size of the image. It looked big so I thought it was big.). If it's not up to the standards let me know, but be nice about it.

Nominate and support. - ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 20:02, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

Could be better resoulution and the wall blends in a little with the land, but I'd support it in FPC. Reywas92^Talk_Sigs 23:13, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Sorry, this pic won't succeed as an FP. The largest version of the pic has very poor resolution (unless your computer resizes it to your screen size, in which case it looks OK). Have a look! - Adrian Pingstone 15:48, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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