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Original – President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda meet with President Lyndon B. Johnson in Manila.
Reason
High quality and historically significant photograph. The photo is eerily beautiful. It shows a rare meeting between a President of the United States with the President of the Philippines in the Malacañang Palace. Can I request that this be featured on the People Power anniversary on February 25.
Articles in which this image appears
Imelda Marcos, Philippines–United States relations
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History
Creator
White House Photograph Office
Thanks for looking. I had a look too. Half an hour later I'd found nothing. nagualdesign (talk) 22:48, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment, composition is excellent. The human interest and interaction/non interaction between the three parties is great. But the background, in particular , is so grainy that it looks as if noise has been deliberately added. It is alternately speckled light and dark. Amandajm (talk) 05:39, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Response I don't know how to make the noise disappear but it probably was there when the photo got developed?--Theparties (talk) 14:22, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The speckled background is likely due to unsharp masking, IMO. The grain is much less affected in areas of continuous tone. Which begs the question, is there a pre-digital/unprocessed copy available? nagualdesign (talk) 01:55, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Response I think it's pretty clear that Imelda is the focus of this picture and the dark and grainy look doesn't subrat anything from that. The other two guys are the background compared to her position. The portrait-on-head is not much of a problem since a person looking at it would first see the center.--Theparties (talk) 17:10, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 09:49, 16 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]