Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/2002 Winter Olympics flame

Opening ceremonies climax with the lighting of the Olympic Flame. For lighting the torch, modern games feature elaborate mechanisms such as this cauldron-spiral-cauldron arrangement lit by the 1980 U.S. Olympic ice hockey team at Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Reason: This image shows the true excitement of the opening ceremonies and the lighting of the Olympic Flame for the Olympic Games. It's of great quality and focuses wonderfully on the subject—the flame.
Articles this image appears in: Olympic Games; Winter Olympic Games; 2002 Winter Olympics; Salt Lake City, Utah; Olympic Flame
Creator: Journalist 1st Class Preston Keres
Nominator: _└^Jared_┘^┌_talk^┐

This image more than doubles the minimum required resolution. Debivort 08:29, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support, and urge Nnfolz to elaborate on his objection. --Golbez 11:23, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Ooops!I'm really sorry. Guess i looked at it really fast and forgot that i was looking at a preview and not the whole image.Nnfolz 22:59, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, very noisy, and the team at the bottom is not nearly sharp enough. Excellent composition, but serious technical flaws.--ragesoss 15:15, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tomer T 17:27, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support -Nelro 20:16, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - quite noisy, and the composition isn't that great - the flags at the bottom are sort of half-in, half-out. Similar deal with the people, perhaps some cropping could help here. And of course the central point of the whole photo - the flame - is completely blown out. Stevage 21:49, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- i don't see anything wrong with the composition -Nelro 12:00, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Ragesoss and Stevage. --KFP (talk | contribs) 15:35, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 08:54, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]