Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/I-80 Eastshore Fwy

I-80 Eastshore Fwy


It's so hard to get a good freeway image that shows the congestion and yet is well composed, too. I found this in San Francisco Bay Area and it struck me immediately as not only clearly representing the traffic situation on I-80 at this location but also as being an excellent photo. It is also used in Freeway, which it also adds to, showing the urban background as well. The cars are in focus and there's just a hint of the smog that they're contributing to. Taken by User:Minesweeper, GFDL.


 * Nominate and support. - Elf | Talk 19:16, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Well-composed and striking as you say, but there are a few lens / scanner faults in the sky and a pair of heavy dark specks over the water that could do with being removed before voting starts. ~ Veledan • Talk + new 20:42, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Support - comment: those dark spots are pilings in the bay mud - one of which for a long time held aloft a large model of the Red Baron's aircraft. The "fault" in the sky looks like an antenna to me. Leonard G. 02:15, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Support Cheers for explaining the pilings, and apologies to Minesweepeer for thinking they were an error. I didn't mean the antenna! The sky smudges might be birds. I never doubted it's a great pic though ~ Veledan • Talk + new 22:34, 3 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Support. Won't find too many photos like this, but this is a good one. Raven4x4x 05:02, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. I used to drive down there every day, it's a good pic. Note the locals 'short cut' on the right. The roads seem very crowded, especially for a Saturday.  Was there some special event on that day? Possibly the kite festival?  David D. (Talk) 18:09, 4 September 2005 (UTC) (forgot to sign earlier)
 * Support. James F. (talk) 13:00, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. And I thought traffic in Sydney was bad... Enochlau 13:22, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. From an artistic point of view, it might look better with some of the area on the left removed, but as an illustration of the subject, it is superb. --Surgeonsmate 22:23, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Question. As a purely legal reason, could we get a version that slightly blurs the plate numbers? I think the only problem ones are the couple on the right. --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 16:00, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Is that necessary? They look blurry enough: even on the biggest version they are very hard to read. Anyway, I didn't know this was required for any picture. Raven4x4x 23:57, September 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, I'm not sure it is totally necessary, but the plate number on the white truck is easily readable. I don't know the California laws about making information public or anything, but as I recall, I thought you had to blur the numbers unless you got permission from the owner. That's why you see them blurred on TV news reports, reality shows, etc. Perhaps I am wrong. I just thought I might mention it. --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 17:33, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * If you notice, they only blur out plates when the name of the subject who owns the car is also given when this is done on TV. It doesn't make much sense to make it illegal to show license plates numbers when you can go outside and record as many as you'd like, eh? Semiconscious  ( talk  · home) 07:24, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Support -- Chris 73 Talk 07:48, September 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support&mdash;This picture does it's job. Not to be a traffic snob, but I live about a mile from where this photo was taken and the traffic around here is nothing compared to the traffic on the 405 freeway in Los Angeles. Forty-five minutes to go 6 miles, each and every day, twice a day, for two years... ugh... Semiconscious  ( talk  · home) 07:24, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. A kind of collective madness seems to have descended on you. Whilst this picture is clear and will, I'm sure, illustrate something useful on related articles it is only as interesting as a picture of traffic conditions can be. Which is not very. I would ask voters to consider this picture in the context of all the natural and man-made wonders of the world and the universe beyond and then look back at their support for a picture of traffic conditions on a day with pleasant weather. A couple of the supporting votes seem to be because the picture says "yep! I know that feeling!" when identifying with the drivers. Well, sorry, I don't drive and there is nothing in this picture that makes me care about it and I'm sure most people with a lack of empathic links to the subject will be left equally disinterested. --bodnotbod 19:35, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. There's nothing special here. - Bevo 00:59, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Broken S 21:27, 22 September 2005 (UTC)