Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Canoes of Polynesia

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Two natives and canoes[edit]

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Original – Two natives with outrigger canoes at shoreline, Honolulu, Hawaii
Reason
A nice EV pic depicting a fine art subject. Just stumbled on it, but caught attention at once.
Articles in which this image appears
Polynesia
FP category for this image
May be landscapes(?)
Creator
Anonymous, preserved in US Library of Congress
  • Support as nominator – -The Herald (Benison)the joy of the LORDmy strength 17:44, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment – Indistinct and inky. Sca (talk) 22:17, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose far too blurry to be featured. Also, I don't know about the encyclopedic value of showing the bright colourful tropics in black and white... Mattximus (talk) 03:19, 26 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Mattximus: Where cultural traditions have changed, a historical image in black and white is going to win out over a colour one that's less authentic, though. Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:20, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Per other – Jobas (talk) 12:10, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 19:43, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]