Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Brazilian National Congress.jpg

The Palace of Brazilian National Congress

Reason: The Palace of the Congress is one of the main symbols of the Brazilian State, with its twin towers flanked by the two plenary domes of the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate. It is front and back fenced by reflecting ponds and lawn. It is the biggest landscape architecture of Brasília, housing thousands of people that work there or go there daily for professional interest or tourism. As a support to the activities of the elected representatives, there are in the interior of the Palace of the Congress almost all the administrative activities of a city, including restaurants, radio and TV stations, press, snack bars, barbershop, cinema, libraries, museums, art galleries and, namely, auditoriums of all sizes, where the Committees of the two Houses meet and where usually most of the out-of-the-Plenum events take place.
Articles this image appears in: Brasília, Brazil, National Congress of Brazil and Politics of Brazil.
Creator: Eurico Zimbres

Support as nominator — Felipe C.S ^{( talk )} 20:18, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support It's a wonderful bit of photography. Very nice. Cheers, Corvus coronoides 21:18, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Good enc angle and people for scale. However, the sky left of the tower is blown, the subject is cut off at the sides, everything looks sort of flat, and (I know this isn't your fault) the rain looks like it's selectively falling into that bowl-shaped structure. Better luck next time.--Here T oHelp 21:23, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Well, without the rain falling exactly into that structure, this would be a banal picture. Unfortunately the quality is poor, look at the artifacts in the grass. Alvesgaspar 22:39, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I like how the rain falls int he bowl, but I have to oppose due to the heavy artifacts in the image, especially on the grass. ^(H) 23:19, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose the image is fuzzy and out of focus overall. And the rain falling in the dish looks photoshopped. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:35, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Is something burning in that giant wok? All kidding aside, I think the rain is distracting. I also notice artifacts in the grass. It's a nice picture but I don't think it's quite up to featured picture standards. --Pixelface 16:58, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose As MacGyver said above, the "rain" appears to be photoshopped. I'm pretty sure that not how rainfall looks like and the rainfalls I've encountered usually fall in areas bigger than a single building. I might be overly cynical/paranoid though... Also, the technical problems mentioned above. Jumping cheese 23:04, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The raid is undoubtedly falling far away behind the bowl, not into it. Debivort 05:08, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

oppose per Pixelface. Debivort 05:08, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Stefan 15:09, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]