Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Diatomaceous earth

Diatomaceous earth


This is a high quality micrograph of a common and widely used substance presented in unusually high detail.


 * Articles this image appears in:Diatomaceous earth, Dynamite, Silicate, Diatom, Micropaleontology and Biogenic silica.


 * Creator:Richard Wheeler (Zephyris)


 * Suggested by: - Zephyris Talk 21:44, 10 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Comments:
 * Note that there are also two alternative versions available, one using dark field illumination and the other using phase contrast illumination.


 * I would specifically be interested in comments on scale and cropping; this is very large image with great detail and I am struggling to decide which balance would be best, easily visible detail (cropping to a small area) or a greater sense of scale (full image with ~1mm field of view). - Zephyris Talk 21:48, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I should have also said this is a stitched montage of 30 images (6x5) so keep an eye out for stitching artefacts. These are pretty impossible to avoid (the whole sample is undergoing brownian motion) but it would be good to know about serious problems. - Zephyris Talk 21:54, 10 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Seconder:
 * FPC adores "science-y" stuff like this, and I love how great the quality is for such a very large image and many people on FPC are strongly biased toward really big images. I don't think you'd meet with much resistance if you nominated this. --I′d※&lt;3※Ɵɲɛ (talk) 00:53, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Now nominated at FPC. --jjron (talk) 19:23, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

