Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hawaii

Hawaii
Voting period ends on 3 Sep 2010 at 20:57:17 (UTC)
 * Reason:The image is a quality demonstration of the macro climate patterns of the archipelago. It adds to a readers understanding of the concepts described in its caption in a meaningful way. The technicals of the image are easily up to snuff by our standards (the horizontal lines in the water with slight colour shifts are, as I understand it, necessary to create these images from this kind of satellite).
 * Articles in which this image appears:Hawaii
 * FP category for this image:Looking back
 * Creator:NASA


 * Support as nominator --Cowtowner (talk) 20:57, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment: What's with the red stuff on the bottom island? J Milburn (talk) 21:25, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * The sources site says that "The small red dot on the Big Island’s southeastern side marks a hot spot on Kilauea Volcano’s southern flank. Kilauea has been erupting almost continuously since January 1983, and is one of the world’s best studied volcanoes." P. S. Burton  (talk)  21:38, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Right, I meant to mention that. Red spots on almost all NASA images are active volcanoes or ongoing fires as I understand it, nothing we can really do about it with compromising the image. Cowtowner (talk) 22:59, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm really not wild about it... J Milburn (talk) 23:02, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm not "wild" about it either, but we have an image that has a multitude of the same artifact and is taken from the same satellite (or type, at least). Fact is NASA uses these images for a variety of purposes, 50 or so red pixels is the price we pay for that here. To me, it doesn't hold the image back from being amongst our finest. Cowtowner (talk) 23:22, 25 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Support Interesting lighting as viewed from space. Quite sharp; NASA must have used a pretty nice camera on their Terra MODIS satellite. Greg L (talk) 01:11, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Sorry, the NASA-added red outline really ruins it for me. The EV is also not sky-high, though I certainly would be supporting without the red. Is it worth contacting NASA? J Milburn (talk) 19:28, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't suppose there's any harm in it; we may be lucky and it'll just be on a separate layer of some PSD file. I'm disappointed that the smaller number of red dots ruined it for you; but, to each his own. Cowtowner (talk) 04:25, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Support Per Greg L... gaz hiley .co.uk  13:04, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak support I wouldn't have nominated this if I'd noticed that little line either, but it's ok otherwise. -- I'ḏ ♥  One  17:28, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I thought Cowtowner nom'd this?! gaz hiley .co.uk  21:18, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
 * You missed the "either", and I've seen a couple of other satellite images with a little line, that's what I meant. =) -- I'ḏ ♥  One  03:28, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah sorry, mis-read it... hehe Thanks... was all confuzzled!  gaz hiley .co.uk  21:53, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Support edit, I removed the line best I could. -- I'ḏ ♥  One  22:28, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Strong Support edit changed pref as edit now available and prefer that... Nice work IdLoveOne... gaz hiley .co.uk  09:42, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Awaiting clarification of vote from J Milburn, regarding the red line.  Jujutacular  talk 03:42, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Yup, support edit. J Milburn (talk) 09:32, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

-- Jujutacular  talk 02:37, 7 September 2010 (UTC)