Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Rain cloud swifts creek 0107.jpg

Rain Cloud

A much needed rain front moving into the Swifts Creek Region in January 2007

Quite a dramatic storm front moving into the Swifts Creek Valley. As can be seen from the state of the grass on the surrounding hills, it was very welcome!

Appears in Rain

Support Self Nom. --Fir0002 01:48, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose On a technical basis, there is very little wrong with the picture. Anyway, that isn't why I'm opposed to this becoming a FP. Obviously you have a very high quality camera, but the image seems dull and uninspired to me. Basically, it looks like any other picture of clouds I've seen, and I think FP have to be eye-catching as well. On the subject of pictures, I actually think your panorama in the rain article is just as good, if not better, than this one. --Mad Max 02:59, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support A sight for sore eyes! As a desert resident, I can say this is defiantly an inspiring sight. TomStar81 (Talk) 03:21, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Of all pictures in the article it contributes the least to my understanding of rain. The camera is aimed slightly too high. It shows no detail, is oversharpened. Just some clouds... yeah, clouds are pretty... --Dschwen 08:30, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, make sure to look at the photo at full res and not the image page (the new software on the commons oversharpens images terribly); not sure what detail is missing...; and I believe it shows a rain front quite well; but perhaps you're right it might be aimed a little high. :-) --Fir0002 09:00, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was about to ask if there was a wider version.. my eye is hunting for some uncropped foreground interest, despite the intended subject being really compelling. Even the tree showing fully on the left would have cracked it. Oh well :o/ mikaul^talk 12:55, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm with Dschwen on this one. The photo purportedly illustrates "rain", but it just looks like a cloud to me- I have to take your word for it that it is in fact raining. Compare this one from the rain article. Spikebrennan 14:42, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry but I really must take issue with you there Spikebrennan, the picture you pointed out shows a puddle with white blobs on the surface which persumably were caused by rain - but you can't see any rain! In my image however, the rain is clearly visible as the gray sheet below the rain front. --Fir0002 22:56, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just wanted to say that I recognized the image as rain right away. This is what rain typically looks like from a distance, especially in desert settings. There may be an issue that it's more encyclopedic to show a penny close up than a giant pile of pennies from 100 meters away (well in this case, substitute penny with raindrop). I however, agree with the "aimed too high" comment, but I think that an image of a rainfront could by FA one day.

Support - yes it doesn't show rain - its shows a rain front, quite well too Schcambo 11:05, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 03:43, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]