Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dumbarton Rail Bridge

Dumbarton Rail Bridge

Nomination withdrawn at 05:58, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 19 Jul 2021 at 07:31:05 (UTC)

Original – The Dumbarton Rail Bridge, the first bridge built across San Francisco Bay, was opened in 1910 and carried its last train in 1982.

Reason

This is one of the first photos I took with my new camera, and I think it is a good one. It's high-resolution, composed neatly, and clearly illustrates the thing it's a photograph of.

Articles in which this image appears

Dumbarton Rail Bridge (infobox), San Francisco Bay, List of bridges in the United States, Timeline of the San Francisco Bay Area, History of the Southern Pacific

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture

Creator

JPxG

• Support as nominator – jp×g 07:31, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
• Comment A crop which removes most of the water in the foreground might be much superior. Nick-D (talk) 08:48, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

• I tried it two different ways; crop 1 maintains the water at the halfway point of the image, and crop 2 maintains it at a third. Personally, I'm partial to the first, although the second looks more photographically proper. jp×g 09:07, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

• Crop 2 seems the better option to me, but I'm not sure if it's FP standard. It should meet the valued image criteria at Commons. Nick-D (talk) 10:13, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

• I've taken a far superior photo of the bridge in question. I've been advised that the proper thing to do is just withdraw this nomination and make a new nom for the new photo, so I'm doing that. jp×g 05:53, 10 July 2021 (UTC)