Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Absheron Peninsula

Absheron Peninsula

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 30 Jan 2013 at 10:52:23 (UTC)

Original – Sattelite image of the Absheron Peninsula by Landsat 5, 2010.

Reason

Sattelite photo near natural colors showing the peninsula's features (alongside Baku and its harbor) and adjacent islets.

Articles in which this image appears

Absheron peninsula, Baku

FP category for this image

Space/Looking back

Creator

NASA

• Support as nominator --Brandmeister^talk 10:52, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
• Support - Konullu (talk) 22:01, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
• Comment Are those tiretrack-like artefacts in the water normal and unavoidable? It's rather distracting. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 20:42, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
• Support Great satellite image. H. W. Calhoun (talk) 02:47, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
• Weak oppose The sea looks really artefacted to me - made up of a dimpled pattern, like tiretracks or a knitted jumper - and I've not heard anything yet to make me think this is unavoidable. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 09:16, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

• I think that could be edited out by smudging since the surface looks almost entirely uniform. Brandmeister^talk 14:53, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
• The tracks seem consistent with other similar FPs we have, and I think it might just be unavoidable and something that's caused by the satellite: File:Hawaje-NoRedLine.jpg, File:Ireland from space edit.jpg, File:South Island blizzard 2003.jpg, File:Scandinavia.TMO2003050.jpg, File:Deepwater Horizon oil spill - May 24, 2010.jpg. Spencer^T♦C 07:39, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

• Okay, Support, then. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 09:36, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:01, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

• Not enough support. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:01, 30 January 2013 (UTC)