Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/LagunaBeach

Laguna Beach CA
Voting period ends on 20 Mar 2011 at 03:22:15 (UTC)
 * Reason:Great perspective and the ONLY photo of the entire city. I fly a route that takes me down over Laguna and then up the ridge to get this perspective. Few people ever see this view of Laguna Beach. One of my personal favorite photos.
 * Articles in which this image appears:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna_Beach
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
 * Creator:WPPilot


 * Support as nominator --WPPilot 03:22, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Support The rest of us don't have the facility for aerial photos, so pretty hard to replace. JJ Harrison (talk) 06:33, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Question: Is that the curvature of the earth on the horizon? Or lens distortion.  Jujutacular  talk 13:31, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Split answer. If you look at the meta tags you can see that this picture was taken with a 15mm fisheye lens. The 15mm has no distortion at centerline, so what you see is for the most part the curviture of the earth. I was at about 3000 feet ASL (above sea level) and you do see the curve in the horizion when you get above the haze and see things from that perspective. The fact that it is just  ABOVE  centerline makes me think that it is both the earth as well as the lens that we see here, but more the earth then lens distortion for sure.
 * Support as JJ --Muhammad (talk) 07:43, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Support  Jujutacular  talk 15:05, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Support. Valuable photograph. - Darwinek (talk) 22:02, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 08:19, 21 March 2011 (UTC)