Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/USS Michigan (SSBN-727)

 
USS Michigan in a flooded drydock
File:USS Michigan Drydock.jpg
Edit 01 - rotated, very minor levels correction.

A while back I uploaded this photo of the ballistic missile submarine USS Michigan and placed it into its namesakes article. Since then this picture has found its way on to several other pages on or relating to submarines; however, I feel that the photos placement in the article drydock significantly adds to the article by providing an example of a naval vessel inside a flooded dry dock, and for this reason I am nominating it for Featured Picture status.

  • Nominate and support. - -- TomStar81 06:40, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose color of vessel blends in with the water. - Mgm|(talk) 14:06, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • Errm... isn't that the point of a Naval submarine? Do you want the US Navy to paint all their covert infiltration submarines yellow so that we can see them clearly in encyclopaedia photos? At full res it's perfectly distinguishable anyway. Having said that, the tilt of the photo makes me feel a bit woozy, and the JPG compression artifacts (look at the feet of the men standing on the sub) are a bit undesirable. Edit supplied, but in order to leave no blank space in the top left corner after rotating, I've had to crop out what appears to be a metal tube coming from the top of the conning tower.   Support. —Vanderdeckenξφ 17:57, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
      • True, that's the point of a submarine, but it doesn't make the image attractive to look at. - Mgm|(talk) 09:40, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
      • I am not 100% sure about this, but that "tube" may be the periscope. Its in the right place, and would likely look like a tube or pipe of some sort. TomStar81 20:15, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
        • Precisely. I wasn't sure if that was an essential part of the sub. Considering that most of my knowledge of submarines extends from Up, Periscope and Das Boot, it looked a little bit like a chimney from a commercial gas boiler. If it is, as you say, a periscope, then consensus will decide whether they'd prefer to have the top quarter of it or a straightened image. I straightened it by aligning the coast in the background, the concrete arch behind the supposed periscope, and the sides of the buildings on the left. —Vanderdeckenξφ 10:25, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Strong preference for the edit to cure seasickness. The periscope can get knotted. :) Stevage 12:01, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted Raven4x4x 09:37, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]