Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Victoria Memorial, Kolkata

The north facade of the Victoria Memorial, Kolkata[edit]

The Victoria Memorial Hall was opened in 1912 as a memorial to Queen Victoria of Britain. The memorial is situated on 64 acres of land surrounded by sprawling gardens and an artificial lake. The hall is presently a museum featuring rare photographs and exhibits from the British Raj.

Reason: The best free high res image of this famous monument on the net.
Articles this image appears in: Victoria Memorial (India)
Creator: user:Planemad

Support as nominator — ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 17:34, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The perspective seems weird. First, the shot was not taken from the exact center. Second, the tops of the twoers on the sides look like rhombuses with inward curves. Are they really squares?--Here T oHelp 19:42, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Chromatic aberrations, Noisy, Distorted, and maybe oversharpened. -Fcb981 20:55, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
support--Sefringle^Talk 05:46, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Per HereToHelp and Fcb981 — a good analogy to this picture, for me, is when an HDTV stretches a 4:3 image to fill the 16:9 screen, but not uniformly. To reduce apparent distortion, the stretching is minimal in the center and very noticeable on the sides (this mode is called "Wide Zoom" on Sony Bravia LCD TVs). I’ve actually been to the Victoria Memorial, and the parapets are definitely not parallelograms (or, to be specific, rhombuses — as HereToHelp mentioned); they’re squares. Also, it seems a bit overexposed. —BrOnXbOmBr21 • talk • contribs • 08:33, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 03:45, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]