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Wilmer W. Tanner[edit]

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side portrait of bespectacled Wilmer W. Tanner putting his hand in a stuffed tiger's mouth and peering at it's face. The tiger's mouth is open
Curator Tanner with a donated tiger at the BYU Life Sciences Museum in 1973
Reason
  • Technical: The image was shot by a professional photographer and converted from plate to high resolution format. It is stored in the BYU Library special collections.
  • Approval: CC-by-SA approval was obtained from the BYU Library special collections director.
  • Usefulness: the image has three illustrative benefits for Wilmer W. Tanner: it shows the man, it shows his work (naturalist), and it shows his crowning acheivement (BYU Life Science Museum curator and building promoter).
  • Art: The image is striking and has been used featured prominently in the past by BYU. It is black and white, but I think that is sort of "retro cool". Especially since the man shown is still alive (101!) and is a last living remnant of early 20th century naturalists. So B&W just kinda "fits". (Plus I find some variety of images, not all color photos, kind of dresses up pages.)
Articles in which this image appears
Wilmer W. Tanner, Taxidermy, BYU Life Sciences Museum
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Others
Creator
Creator was BYU official photographer. Uploaded by TCO. Image improvement assistance from Dschwen and Kaldari and Smalljim.
cleaned up version
  • Support as nominator --TCO (talk) 00:30, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • P.s. I am new to Featured Picture world, but have tried to follow the directions. Please excuse any mistakes and judge the image and help me. TCO (talk) 00:40, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • cleaned. (I think NYM does too, so that is four to one for the cleaned. I don't think everyone understands the need to pick the improved image. And even the oppose did not see the cleaned. Let me go see if that helps him. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TCO (talk • contribs) 18:03, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Mild Oppose I’m really not seeing that a black & white picture with lighting accomplished by a single flashbulb illustrates the subject Wilmer Tanner particularly well—at least not to the extent we’ve seen with other FP-award pictures, like this one of Charlton Heston. Nor do I see that this image is “eye-catching to the point where users will want to read its accompanying article”. What I find rather interesting is that Mr. Tanner is 101 years old. To that extent, I suppose that this image is interesting in that working with tigers is not the risk factor to longevity one might think it would be. Greg L (talk) 01:31, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • The tiger was stuffed. Would not do that if it were mobile.  ;-) Maybe you were joking though. Yeah, he's kind of fascinating as the whole article grew out of a ref from one tiny part of an FA was working on. Then found out more about the fellow, got French wiki page translated here, etc. There are these last links to pioneers of modern zoology still with us. His papers have been given to BYU Library, so he might be getting ready. However, I saw some publication of his as recent as 2008. TCO (talk) 01:46, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Conditional support if some of the worst scratches and dust spots removed - as well as the strange circular artefacts on the dark background. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 21:00, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • I've uploaded a cleaned-up version per the request above. Removed a lot of blemishes, toned down some of the specular highlights, especially on the tiger's head and the shirt button. Also enhanced contrast slightly and applied a small amount of noise reduction.  —SMALLJIM  01:21, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • Thanks. I can tell the difference. The contrast especially. Maybe the noise too. Am not well trained enough for the other aspects. But it seems to have more pop now with darker tiger stripes. TCO (talk) 03:14, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support-Although my vote may be biased as I have done some work with the nominator, I find this to be a spectacular image. The only small quibble I have (and this does not hold up my support) is can anything be done so that his elbow doesn't rest on the bottom edge of the image? Maybe if the bottom could be dropped ever so slightly (I realize it may not be possible to add to the image, but if the original were cropped to these dimensions, I would like to see it ever so slightly less cropped toward the bottom).--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 03:56, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Cleaned version. A really unique photo with good EV. The lighting an composition aren't perfect, but I don't consider this a typical portrait shot. Kaldari (talk) 06:35, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 02:24, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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