Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mount Cleveland

Mount Cleveland Erupts

Original - The Mount Cleveland volcano of Alaska erupts. However, scientists weren't the first to see the eruption: an astronaut was! Jeffrey N. Williams was a passenger on the International Space Station when he noticed ash spewing from the volcano on Earth. While up there, he photographed the massive amount of ash, tephra, and other volcanic materials.

Aternative 1 - Larger version.

Alternative 2 - Larger version with histogram adjusted, some sharpening, and spot removal.

Alternative 3 - Slightly larger version, higher detail than other alternatives.

Reason

A striking image of Mount Cleveland erupting in May 2006. This image has incredible detail, and the selection of FPs for geological objects are lacking.

Articles this image appears in

Volcano, Volcanic ash, Mount Cleveland (Alaska), Chuginadak Island

Creator

Jeffrey Williams

• Support as nominator ----Meldshal 15:02, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
• Weak support - striking, but shame about the small size. Can forgive the out-of-focus ash, of course. One striking aspect is how the clouds (fog?) seem to have been blown away from the eruption. --Golbez (talk) 23:10, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
• Support High EV. Within the size requirement; could be delisted and replaced if a higher resolution version becomes available. Durova^Charge! 01:52, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
• Comment I found it! I found it.... The high res image from NASA was downscaled quite a bit due to a very soft focus the original had. [1] Here's the image if anyone is willing to take a hand to it. Not sure you can extract much more detail than the candidate already has... BTW I like the 5th picture down... anyone know if it's already on commons? victorrocha (talk) 06:28, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Support any, preference to Alt 2; OPPOSE Alt 3. Very cool pic. Would love it if we could find a larger resolution. We did! Go us! Edit-Alt 4 is just a crop of the original, as far as I can tell. At any rate, it is too small, and cuts off part of the ash cloud. Clegs (talk) 06:35, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

• Comment - I just uploaded the new version victorrocha mentioned:Image:Mount cleveland erupting2.jpg. --Meldshal 11:44, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
  • Thanks! Would it be possible to crop out the ID number/white line across the bottom? Clegs (talk) 13:24, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
• Comment I added this picture to the article about the island Mt. Cleveland is on. Clegs (talk) 13:40, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

I guess you could crop it, but I can't do it, i'll screw up the entire image. --Meldshal 14:24, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

But i really don't want the larger image to be promoted, it is lower quality by a noticeable amount. --Meldshal 14:25, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

• Comment Just using automatic white balance correction gives the dark blue background and leads to better contrast in the image imo. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 19:36, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
• Support Original It meets the minumum size requirement, though barely, and has a significant wow advantage over the alternatives. The contrast makes it. --Uncle Bungle (talk) 00:13, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
• Support Original per Uncle Bungle. Very dramatic photo. --Pete Tillman (talk) 03:29, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
• Support Original Intothewoods29 (talk) 04:27, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
• Support any --Mbz1 (talk) 21:08, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
• Support original. I don't know why I didn't think of nominating this when I uploaded it in the first place. howcheng {chat} 22:19, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
• Support original Nick Dowling (talk) 08:48, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
• Support original. Quite interesting that scientists didn't notice this. Spencer^T♦C 00:52, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Promoted Image:MtCleveland ISS013-E-24184.jpg --jjron (talk) 13:03, 19 August 2008 (UTC)