Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hurricane Ike damage

Damage from Hurricane Ike in Gilchrist, Texas

 * Reason:Aside from the obvious encyclopedic value, in my opinion the image is interesting and high-quality.
 * Articles this image appears in:Hurricane Ike, Effects of Hurricane Ike in Texas
 * Creator:Jocelyn Augusitno/FEMA

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 * Support as nominator --–Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  02:31, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment this picture is much more powerful. Renata (talk) 02:47, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, I believe the current candidate depicts the damage and details more closely. –Juliancolton Tropical [[Special:contributions/Juliancolton|Cyclone
 * I'm not interested in the specific pieces of debris but rather the extent of the damage. The alternative linked above conveys the scale much better, but unfortunately it's too small.--HereToHelp (talk to me) 13:52, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It's also not in the PD, unless it came from somewhere else. Cheers, –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  15:32, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - nice image.  iMatthew //  talk  // 17:14, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose Though powerful, issues with sharpness, noise, and an awkward viewing angle make me oppose.  Spencer T♦C 19:18, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your feedback. I'm fairly new to photography, so could you please point out where you see noise in the image? Thanks, –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  21:24, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The wikipedia article is Image noise; and as an example, I see some on the roof of the house.  Spencer T♦C 21:49, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * That's what I thought at first, too, but it seems to me that the noise on the roof of the house is actually the varying colors of the shingles. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  21:54, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Also try looking under the house, and in pools of water. It's the little speckles that are the noise, and IMO it looks more like noise than shingle patterns...shingles would probably appear in neat rows. In addition, the file name, "File:Hurricane Ike Gilchrist damage edit.jpg" indicates that an edit was performed from the original, "File:Hurricane Ike Gilchrist damage.jpg". Could you say how the image was edited in the image summary (see the other versions section of File:Amsterdam_photochrom2.jpg, for example). Thanks,  Spencer T♦C 22:12, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, done. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  22:23, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Whoops, I didn't mean in the caption. I'll move it to the image description.  Spencer T♦C 02:03, 12 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Weak oppose per Spencer. In particular, the awkward angle is what holds this back, for me.--ragesoss (talk) 03:46, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

. -- The Nordic Goddess Kristen  Worship her 02:59, 19 January 2009 (UTC)