Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Shelf cloud

Shelf cloud

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 20 Jul 2024 at 15:05:46 (UTC)

Original – From Commons: "Striated/layered shelf cloud in Charlton, MA, USA on July 2, 2022"

Reason

Good, comprehensive shot that illustrates its subject well; image quality looks good at maximum resolution

Articles in which this image appears

Arcus cloud

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena/Weather

Creator

Will y theweatherguy473737

• Support as nominator – Moonreach (talk) 15:05, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
• Support – even though the file size is a tad small _ZZ^Z'S 17:18, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

  Withdrawing vote per Adam Cuerden --_ZZ^Z'S 20:30, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

  It's 4,032 × 3,024 pixels. That's well above the 1500px square in the criteria; is there an unofficial higher target? Moonreach (talk) 17:53, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

  I was referring to the size, not resolution _ZZ^Z'S 03:14, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

  Ah, okay. Moonreach (talk) 13:46, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

  That forest looks rather like an oil painting, which might indicate way too much compression, or a terrible camera. I'm not sure about image quality. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 21:29, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:58, 20 July 2024 (UTC)