Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Lightning over Oradea Romania 2.jpg

Cloud-to-ground lightning


Well, I took this picture a few nights ago outside my building and everybody who saw it loved it. On Wiki I found that it illustrates perfectly the Cloud-to-ground lightning wheather phenomenon. If you watch at 100% zoom you can actually see where the lightning strikes the earth.

Author: Ioan Mircea Madau ; August 2005


 * Nominate and support. - Nelumadau 00:59, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Conditional Support-- Its an awesome shot alright, but the picture ought to be rotated a little to make the ground seem flat instead of tilted to the left. TomStar81 01:51, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * If tilted back to square, then the picture would either lose some critical detail near the edges, or end up very tightly cropped. Was the original larger? --Surgeonsmate 02:32, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, of course I noticed it's tilted, the wind must have moved the rig, but then again, I feel it adds to the authenticity of the picture. It was 3 a.m. and I was on top of the building. If most people think it should be straightened out, I'll have a corrected version.  No, it is not cropped, it's straight off the CF card.Nelumadau
 * I might well support a rotated (or as I think of it, derotated) version. Adroit Photoshopping might maintain a reasonable aspect ratio. I'm quite good at that sort of thing; if you need help, ask. &mdash; Xiong &#29066; talk * 07:34, 2005 August 18 (UTC)
 * I'm thinking more like a skew/free transform in PS, where the lower right corner would go lower and the oposite corner would go higher, so as to level out the horizon without losing detail in he middle as you would by a simple rotate/crop. --Nelumadau 15:18, 18 August 2005 (UTC)Nelumadau
 * Support. Stunning pic. However, it could do with a bit of rotation.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91  ($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|)  17:07, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, the more I looked at it, the more I feel it needs to be corrected. So I did, but for the love of all things dear, I can't figure out how to change the old with the new. I uploaded the new at http://madau.net/photo/lightning_over_Oradea_Romania_2.jpg and I'd be grateful if someone of the more experienced users here were to add it to this page. I promise I'll take the time to read the Wiki tutorial one of these days:). Nelumadau 21:02, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. I'll take a look at it again when it's rotated. You might also want to crop off the black mark on the top left corner, whatever it might be. Enochlau 06:12, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Enochlau 12:10, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Great picture, definitely illustrates its subject well.
 * Nelumadau, I've uploaded the rotated image to Wikipedia and added it here. I've put the appropriate tags on the image (hope that's OK for me to do that), but as you're the author you are probably the one who should give it any more info it needs. This rotated version is one of my favourite ever lightning pictures, and I've looked at a lot. I definately Support the rotated version. Raven4x4x 07:18, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support.Wow! A great picture however it's edited.:) (Donovan|Geocachernemesis|Interact) 12:30, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Support-- ZeWrestler  Talk 17:30, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Support The rotated version overcomes my only objection. Great picture! --Surgeonsmate 21:22, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Support rotated image. - Mgm|(talk) 09:55, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support rotated image. --Kizor 14:38, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Wow. -- tomf688  06:12, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * ( + ) Support Edited version --Fir0002 08:03, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support rotated image. An oustanding pic, one of the best candidates for Featured pic ever. Well done! - Adrian Pingstone 13:32, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Very striking (no pun intended). --ScottyBoy900Q ∞ 14:22, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Support rotated version -- Chris 73 Talk 12:20, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * This link is Broken 21:21, 1 September 2005 (UTC)