Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hawaii

Hawaii

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Original - A true-color satellite view of Hawaii shows that most of the vegetation on the islands grow on the north-east sides which face the wind. The silver glow around the calmer south-west of the islands is the result of the shelter provided from the islands.<ref>http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=3510</ref>

Edit 1 - Red line on Hawaii island cloned and healed out. --I'ḏ ♥One 22:28, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Reason: The image is a quality demonstration of the macro climate patterns of the archipelago. It adds to a readers understanding of the concepts described in its caption in a meaningful way. The technicals of the image are easily up to snuff by our standards (the horizontal lines in the water with slight colour shifts are, as I understand it, necessary to create these images from this kind of satellite).
Articles in which this image appears: Hawaii
FP category for this image: Looking back
Creator: NASA

Support as nominator --Cowtowner (talk) 20:57, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: What's with the red stuff on the bottom island? J Milburn (talk) 21:25, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The sources site says that "The small red dot on the Big Island’s southeastern side marks a hot spot on Kilauea Volcano’s southern flank. Kilauea has been erupting almost continuously since January 1983, and is one of the world’s best studied volcanoes." P. S. Burton (talk) 21:38, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Right, I meant to mention that. Red spots on almost all NASA images are active volcanoes or ongoing fires as I understand it, nothing we can really do about it with compromising the image. Cowtowner (talk) 22:59, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm really not wild about it... J Milburn (talk) 23:02, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not "wild" about it either, but we have an image that has a multitude of the same artifact and is taken from the same satellite (or type, at least). Fact is NASA uses these images for a variety of purposes, 50 or so red pixels is the price we pay for that here. To me, it doesn't hold the image back from being amongst our finest. Cowtowner (talk) 23:22, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support Interesting lighting as viewed from space. Quite sharp; NASA must have used a pretty nice camera on their Terra MODIS satellite. Greg L (talk) 01:11, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Sorry, the NASA-added red outline really ruins it for me. The EV is also not sky-high, though I certainly would be supporting without the red. Is it worth contacting NASA? J Milburn (talk) 19:28, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't suppose there's any harm in it; we may be lucky and it'll just be on a separate layer of some PSD file. I'm disappointed that the smaller number of red dots ruined it for you; but, to each his own. Cowtowner (talk) 04:25, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
~~Support~~ Per Greg L... gazhiley.co.uk 13:04, 29 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
~~Weak support~~ I wouldn't have nominated this if I'd noticed that little line either, but it's ok otherwise. --I'ḏ♥One 17:28, 29 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I thought Cowtowner nom'd this?! gazhiley.co.uk 21:18, 29 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - You missed the "either", and I've seen a couple of other satellite images with a little line, that's what I meant. =) --I'ḏ♥One 03:28, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - Ah sorry, mis-read it... hehe Thanks... was all confuzzled! gazhiley.co.uk 21:53, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      - Support edit, I removed the line best I could. --I'ḏ ♥One 22:28, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Support edit changed pref as edit now available and prefer that... Nice work IdLoveOne... gazhiley.co.uk 09:42, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Awaiting clarification of vote from J Milburn, regarding the red line. Jujutacular ^talk 03:42, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, support edit. J Milburn (talk) 09:32, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Hawaje-NoRedLine.jpg --Jujutacular ^talk 02:37, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]