User:Spikebrennan
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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.
Galleries of Images
=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%:
Image:Abraham Lincoln head on shoulders photo portrait.jpg |Abraham Lincoln
Image:Tvashtarvideo.gif |Tvashtar eruption
Image:The First Telegraph.jpg |The First Telegraph
Image:Cody-Buffalo-Bill-LOC.jpg |Buffalo Bill
Image:Constitution_of_the_United_States,_page_1.jpg|Constitution
Image:Sitting Bull - edit2.jpg|Sitting Bull. My nom was cropped differently than the image that was ultimately promoted.
Image:Buchenwald Slave Laborers Liberation.jpg|Buchenwald slaves
Image:Hitlermusso2 edit.jpg|Hitler and Mussolini
Image:Mulberry Street NYC c1900 LOC 3g04637u edit.jpg|Mulberry Street, NYC
Image:John Wilkes Booth wanted poster new.jpg|John Wilkes Booth wanted poster
Image:Frederick Douglass (circa 1879).jpg|Frederick Douglass
Image:Bombers of WW1.ogg|U.S. aircraft in World War I
Image:Etna eruption seen from the International Space Station.jpg|Mount Etna eruption
Image:Brandenburg Gate Quadriga at Night.jpg|Brandenburg Gate quadriga
Image:Stowe_Armorial.jpg|Grenville Diptych (FP for April Fools' Day 2008
Image:Arc Triomphe.jpg|Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Arc de Triomphe 2007
Image:Annie Oakley shooting glass balls, 1894.ogv|Annie Oakley
Image:DTI-sagittal-fibers.jpg|Diffusion tensor imaging of brain
Image:Ireland from space edit.jpg|Ireland from space
Image:Bombing of Hamburg.ogg|Bombing of Hamburg
Image:Theodore Rooseveltnewtry.jpg|Theodore Roosevelt
Image:Palmercarpenter.jpg|Carpenter
Image:MESSENGER first photo of unseen side of mercury.jpg|Mercury (subsequently delisted and replaced
Image:Challenger (STS-51-L) Explosion.ogg|Challenger disaster (subsequently delisted)
Image:KatrinaNewOrleansFlooded edit2.jpg|Hurricane Katrina flooding
Image:NGC4676.jpg|Mice galaxies
Image:Malcolm X NYWTS 2a.jpg|Malcolm X
Image:Somagahana Fuchiemon restored.jpg|Sumo wrester
=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):
Image:Reynoldsclub.JPG|Tilt and color problems
Image:Forbidden fruit.jpg|cropping
Image:Christus Ravenna Mosaic.jpg|JPG artifacts; previously failed FPC nom
Image:Codex Mendoza folio 2r.jpg|Scan resolution and coloration
Image:Chicago Downtown Aerial View.jpg|Tilt, composition, haze, and pixelly
Image:Kamehameha I.png|Inferior portrait- a better one of same subject is available, but only in low-res scan.
Image:King Tut Ankh Amun Golden Mask 01.jpg|JPG artifacts, subject cut off on left
Image:Andrew johnson2.jpg|not much interest in the nom, photographer details undocumented, damage to photo
Image:Jean-Leon Gerome Pollice Verso.jpg|JPG artifacts
Image:It's A Wonderful Life.jpg|technical problems
Image:William Tecumseh Sherman.jpg|Nom resulted in a differnet photo of Sherman being featured instead.
Image:HarryHoudini-1899.jpg|Image quality; also this appears to be a mirror image of the original.
Image:Burning Viet Cong base camp.jpg|Scratches on photo
Image:KatrinaNewOrleansFlooded.jpg|Too grainy (new edit passed FPC)
Image:Wilhelm Keitel Kapitulation.jpg|Framing
Image:MSH82_st_helens_plume_from_harrys_ridge_05-19-82.jpg|Debris on image, better images of volcano available
Image:SearsHouse115.jpg|Scan quality/JPG artifacts; not unique
Image:Philly041907-004-GenosSteaks.jpg|Noise and grain
Image:Luggage - Japanese American internment.jpg|Non-descript image, inferior composition
Image:Fleet 5 nations.jpg|Noise, blurriness
Image:Satellite image of Cape peninsula.jpg|Fuzzy, vertical exaggeration
Image:CodexRunicus.jpeg|Bad crop
Image:SPSM.05.jpg|Poor composition
Image:Immortal game animation.gif|No consensus
Image:Millerite 1843 chart.jpg|grainy
Image:PIA05553.gif|blurry, small
Image:Sivakempfort.jpg|Previous failed nom, insufficiently hi-res
Image:Kennedy inauguration footage.ogg|Film omits most famous part of speech
Image:Musée Picardie Archéo 03.jpg|Cut and paste onto uninteresting background, not focused
Image:Campo de Criptana Molinos de Viento 1.jpg|inferior composition
Image:Abraham_Lincoln_giving_his_second_Inaugural_Address_(4_March_1865).jpg|Blurry, Lincoln and Booth are hard to identify
Image:Island of Hawai'i - Landsat mosaic.jpg|Unrealistic colors
Image:Hans_Holbein_the_Younger_-_The_Ambassadors_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg|Insufficiently high resolution
Image:A11v 1094228.ogv|low-quality, no consensus
Image:Willmette how.jpg|Image size
Image:Game of life animated glider.gif|Too small, redundant of another Game of Life image
Image:Shiprock.snodgrass3.jpg|Tilted
Image:Elvis-nixon.jpg|no consensus
Image:Meeting Royal 2007 02 06 n11.jpg|Not quite sharp enough
File:35mm film audio macro.jpg|Needs cleanup
File:One More Step, Mr. Hands.jpg|Reflection of photographic flash on right side
File:Pentagon construct.gif|No consensus
The following photographs were taken by me
=Ogunquit River=
Ogunquit River in Ogunquit, Maine at high tide and low tide
Image:Ogunquit-river-low-tide (august 2006).jpg
Image:Ogunquit-river-high-tide (august 2006).jpg
=Philadelphia=
Image:One liberty place.JPG
Image:Academy of music.JPG
Image:Suburban station.JPG
Image:Philadelphia museum district.JPG
Image:Comcast center.JPG
Image:Girard-trust-building.jpg
Image:Northwest-center-city.jpg
Image:Kimmel center interior.JPG
Image:Kimmel-center.JPG
Image:Toynbee-1.jpg
Image:Toynbee-2.jpg
Image:Toynbee-3.jpg
Image:Two liberty place.JPG
Image:Union league.JPG
Image:Philadelphia City Hall south elevation.jpg
=Chicago=
Image:Chicago skyscrapers.jpg
Image:Aon-prudential.JPG
Image:Marina towers.JPG
Image:Chicago river with bridges.jpg
Image:Max-palevsky-commons.JPG
Image:Ivy_on_Chicago_University_campus_building.jpg
Image:Reynoldsclub.JPG
Image:University-of-chicago-business-school-atrium.JPG
Image:Cloud-gate.JPG
Image:Kent hall university of chicago.JPG
=Other images=
File:Newborn baby (May 7, 2005).jpg|Newborn infant
File:Palm trees in Santa Monica.JPG|palm trees in Santa Monica, California
Image:Santa-monica-sunset.JPG|Sunset in Santa Monica, California
Image:Villanova-oreo-1.jpg|"The Awakening", better known as "The Oreo"-- a sculpture on the campus of Villanova University.
Image:Villanova-oreo-2.jpg
Image:Villanova-oreo-3.jpg
Image:Garrett-hill-july-4.JPG
Image:Garrett-hill-july_4.JPG
Image:Roof leak at Taliesin West.jpg|Roof leaking at Frank Lloyd Wright's office at Taliesin West.
Image:View from Camelback Mountain 05-26-2008-A.jpg|View from Camelback Mountain, Phoenix Arizona
Image:View from Camelback Mountain 05-26-2008.jpg|Another view from Camelback Mountain, Phoenix Arizona
Image:Santa Barbara Pier 08-13-2007.jpg|Santa Barbara Pier, Santa Barbara, California
Image:Lansdowne Herakles.JPG|Lansdowne Herakles, part of the collection of the Getty Villa
Image:Statue of zeus, getty museum, malibu california.JPG|Statue of Zeus, part of the collection of the Getty Villa
Image:Statutes of a Religious Association.JPG|Statutes of a religious association, part of the collection of the Getty Villa
Image:Pool at Getty Villa.JPG|Getty Villa
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