Joseph Ambrose

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 28 Nov 2016 at 01:16:42 (UTC)

Reason

High EV as the lead image for the article Veterans Day; historical value

Articles in which this image appears

Veterans Day, Joseph F. Ambrose

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Military

Creator

United States Department of Defense/Mickey Sanborn

• Support as nominator – Pine^✉ 01:16, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Support lNeverCry 07:02, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – Jobas (talk) 16:34, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Love this picture... but it's got a lot of grain. Worth reducing a little?  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 02:57, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'd personally say the grain's authentic, and attempts to fix it have a high chance of just making it look fake. But if someone can prove me wrong with a good fix.... (Support for now, anyway) Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 12:49, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Thinking it over, I agree with Adam.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:50, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose Bad quailty and crop. --PetarM (talk) 17:53, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – It is quite grainy, but the poignant expression and composition counterbalance that. (Plus the tattered old uniform – that he can still get into!) Sca (talk) 16:35, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - Per Sca and Adam. A 1982 photo with encyclopedic (and emotional) value.--Godot13 (talk) 06:38, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:World War I veteran Joseph Ambrose, 86, at the dedication day parade for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 01:17, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]