Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cyclone Ingrid/archive1

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 13 Dec 2011 at 03:37:43 (UTC)

Original – Cyclone Ingrid just below Category 5 status.

Reason: I believe that this image meets the criteria for FP because it captures an intense cyclone approaching its peak.
Articles in which this image appears: World weather in 2005, Timeline of the 2004–05 Australian region cyclone season, 2004–05 Australian region cyclone season, Cyclone Ingrid
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena/Weather
Creator: NASA; uploaded by Good kitty

Support as nominator ---- TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk) 03:37, 4 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Some of the western portion of this image needs to be cropped out; Ingrid is elongated towards the east in this pic. HurricaneFan 25 14:04, 4 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support (and response to HFan) - I've nominated this picture before and my stance on it meeting FP criteria stands. In response to HurricaneFan's reasoning for opposing, the suggestion to crop a part of the image out would actually hurt the image in my opinion. By having a defined peninsula next to it, there is a distinct reference to land and improves the visual appeal. As for the storm being elongated, that's entirely bogus to be honest. The core of the storm is almost perfectly symmetrical. What's being mistaken as the storm being elongated is the southern feeder band which is fairly large in comparison to the storm itself but in no way makes the storm elongated. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 18:27, 4 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support The image is pretty much as good as it gets all around. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 20:44, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support a little blurry at the top, otherwise good for its article. Pine^talk 07:16, 11 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 21:44, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]