Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Joseph Ambrose

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)

Original – "Joseph Ambrose, an 86-year-old World War I veteran, attends the dedication day parade for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982. He is holding the flag that covered the casket of his son, who was killed in the Korean War."

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]