Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dún Laoghaire

Kingstown, [now Dún Laoghaire], County Dublin, Ireland

Option 1 - The present town of Dún Laoghaire (or Dunleary) dates from the 1820. In 1807, two ships leaving Dublin crashed on the rocks between Dún Laoghaire and Blackrock, with 400 lives lost. This leant force to a movement to build a new harbour for Dublin, and in 1816, funding was procured and the construction began. The town-under-construction was renamed to Kingstown after a visit by King George IV in 1821. This harbour caused development of the area to vastly increase, railway lines were created connecting the town to Dublin, and it soon became a fashionable suburb. This image shows Dún Laoghaire, still known as Kingstown at the time, while still in its full Victorian glory.

Option 2

Reason

Dún Laoghaire was hit by a bomb in WWII, this irreversably changed the view. Also, this was a fashionable Dublin suburb of the Victorian period. Also, yes, we've seen this before, but I did not see the image until today, and thought it'd make a fun quickish restoration. There were a lot of problems in last week's nomination. I don't propose to list them. Two restoration options: They vary in colours alone. Interestingly, the limits of the photochrom are surprisingly similar to electronic versions of photographs: Photochroms evidently could not create a perfect gradient of tints, so there's something a little similar to posterisation in the clouds, but for mechanical reasons. This is because we're pushing the limits of 19th century colour photograph technology (please don't oppose over this! It was the best the technology could do!)

Articles this image appears in

Dún Laoghaire

Creator

Detroit Publishing Co.

• Support either as nominator, prefer Option 2 --Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 08:25, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
• Comment I'm confused. Isn't the same picture as the one in Recently Closed Noms? But it's supposed to be of Saint Vincent (island) there. Can someone straighten this out? Makeemlighter (talk) 19:21, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

  Oh, nevermind. I just saw what you said on that nomination. Makeemlighter (talk) 19:22, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

  Yes, the attribution there was completely wrong, and I've removed it from the St. Vincent articles. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 00:02, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

• Weak support alt 1. Technically not the best photochrom. The water in particular is unrealistically placid. Weak supporting for historic EV due to subsequent wartime damage. Durova²⁷⁵ 04:38, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Not promoted No quorum. :-( --wadester16 03:55, 18 July 2009 (UTC)