User:Spikebrennan

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A breathtaking view of the Himalayas from Manali, India
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I'm a lawyer who lives in Rosemont, Pennsylvania and works in Philadelphia. My Wikipedia interests include my undergraduate alma mater (the University of Chicago), and the history and geography of southeastern Pennsylvania.

1 Galleries of Images

[edit] Galleries of Images

[edit] Featured Pictures nominated by me

The following images are Featured Pictures that were nominated by me (although I did not have anything to do with creating them) (link to the nom). As of January 2008, the promotion rate for my nominations is about 44%:

Abraham Lincoln	Tvashtar eruption	The First Telegraph	Buffalo Bill
Constitution	Sitting Bull. My nom was cropped differently than the image that was ultimately promoted.	Buchenwald slaves	Hitler and Mussolini
Mulberry Street, NYC	John Wilkes Booth wanted poster	Frederick Douglass	U.S. aircraft in World War I
Mount Etna eruption	Brandenburg Gate quadriga	Grenville Diptych (FP for April Fools' Day 2008	Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Arc de Triomphe 2007
Annie Oakley	Diffusion tensor imaging of brain	Ireland from space	Bombing of Hamburg
Theodore Roosevelt	Carpenter	Mercury	Challenger disaster (subsequently delisted)
Hurricane Katrina flooding	Mice galaxies	Malcolm X

[edit] My nominees to FPC that did not pass

The following images were nominated by me for Featured Picture status but the nomination did not pass (explanation noted with link to the nom):

Tilt and color problems	cropping	JPG artifacts; previously failed FPC nom	Scan resolution and coloration
Tilt, composition, haze, and pixelly	Inferior portrait- a better one of same subject is available, but only in low-res scan.	King Tut Ankh Amun Golden Mask 01.jpg JPG artifacts, subject cut off on left	not much interest in the nom, photographer details undocumented, damage to photo
JPG artifacts	technical problems	Nom resulted in a differnet photo of Sherman being featured instead.	Image quality; also this appears to be a mirror image of the original.
Scratches on photo	~~Too grainy~~ (new edit passed FPC)	Framing	Washed out and foggy
Debris on image, better images of volcano available	Artifacts and aliasing, no consensus	Scan quality/JPG artifacts; not unique	Noise and grain
Non-descript image, inferior composition	Noise, blurriness	Fuzzy, vertical exaggeration	Bad crop
Poor composition	No consensus	grainy	blurry, small
Previous failed nom, insufficiently hi-res	Film omits most famous part of speech	Cut and paste onto uninteresting background, not focused	inferior composition
Blurry, Lincoln and Booth are hard to identify	Unrealistic colors	Insufficiently high resolution	low-quality, no consensus
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The following photographs were taken by me

[edit] Ogunquit River

Ogunquit River in Ogunquit, Maine at high tide and low tide

[edit] Philadelphia

[edit] Chicago



	Cloud-gate-from-underneath.JPG		IMG 2292.JPG

[edit] Other images

Newborn infant	palm trees in Santa Monica, California	Sunset in Santa Monica, California	"The Awakening", better known as "The Oreo"-- a sculpture on the campus of Villanova University.