Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Catapult Officer

Catapult Officer

 * Reason:This high-res picture demonstrates an interesting job, with great action.
 * Articles this image appears in:Modern US Navy carrier air operations
 * Creator:US Navy; http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=54407


 * Support as nominator --Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 22:08, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Support I thought that's what this was at first glance. It's a well-framed, interesting image of a small piece of the military in action.  Good find for the encyclopedia, if you're the one who found it.  I would puke before I take off in a plane like this.  --Blechnic (talk) 22:30, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Support - wow. Durova Charge! 23:31, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Support This definitely has enough wow to get my vote. Amazing photo. –  LATICS   talk  00:01, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose After reading several comments below, I have to change my vote. Yes, it's an amazing picture but not nearly enough encyclopedic value. – LATICS   talk  23:47, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Support. Great job. Malinaccier (talk) 00:30, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Support. WOW. And in a very real way, it does have great encyclopedic value, demonstrating the dynamic nature of a catapult officer's workplace. Mostlyharmless (talk) 02:30, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Support - just came across it on Commons. Awesome picture! → Christian .И  12:26, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Support. Very cool, very enc, and one of the best pics I've seen here in a while. 216.183.234.7 (talk) 06:13, 5 August 2008 (UTC) Ooops. That was me on a different comp than normal. Forgot I wasn't logged in :-D Clegs (talk) 14:59, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I purely hate blurry, cartoony "action-line" photos like this. Obviously a matter of taste, and clearly I'm in the minority. But still.... --Pete Tillman (talk) 18:39, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose - I would support this in a heart beat on the commons but I can not do so here. It doesn't do a great job of highlighting what a catapult officer does. In all seriousness, it's a guy in uniform obstructed by steam. In that regard, I could not support it for steam catapult either because again, all the requisite parts are blurred. If the plane had been stationary, it would be a different situation. --Uncle Bungle (talk) 23:31, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Yeah, a commons FPC, but here, no! It offers little if any encyclopedic value. It is a partially occluded guy and a blurry mess. Just conveys emotion and wow, but no information. --Dschwen 18:02, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose great image, and no doubt on commons it would FP but here no. Enc value missing per Dschwen. Mfield (talk) 19:42, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose per above. Kaldari (talk) 21:23, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment.While disagreement about the FPC is of course legitimate, you would have to concede that the photo does convey considerable information. It isn't "a guy in uniform obscured by steam", but rather a catapult officer signalling a plane while another (likely a FA-18) launches at high speed in front of him. It shows the posture and demeanor of catapult officers while signalling planes on the deck of aircraft carriers, that they work among planes being launched at great speed among large amounts of steam (which adds, rather than detracts from the EV), and that their work is potentially dangerous. In my opinion this picture shows a huge amount of information, much of which would be very difficult to capture in a static shot. Mostlyharmless (talk) 23:18, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I hear what you are saying, my feeling was that this shot is a little too abstract to depict all those things well with no other context. It doesn't show enough of the plane or the ship to really gauge the scale of things and the distance or speed involved is my feeling. Without having seen other footage and images of this procedure i am left none the wiser as to what he is doing. I know it stands with the article and the other images on it so that's a little harsh and I do love the image - it certainly conveys speed and motion, just not necessarily in a way that is that descriptive. Mfield (talk) 23:23, 6 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Support - Great composition, and I agree with Mostlyharmless that the photo does in fact represent well what is involved with the catapult officer's job. Bonus Onus (talk) 20:19, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

. --John254 01:57, 11 August 2008 (UTC)