Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Iowa turret explosion

Iowa turret explosion

Original - Smoke pours from the #2 turret aboard the battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) following an internal explosion near Puerto Rico.

Edit 1

Reason

Some monthes ago I tried to get this image through the FPC and it failed. Some of the contributers at the time suggested the the image may do better as an FPC candidate if it was the centerpiece of its own article rather than one image in the parent article. It was about that time that an article dealing exclusively with the incident was created, so I am rereunning this through here to see if having its own article will make the difference.

Articles this image appears in

April 19, USS Iowa (BB-61), Live fire exercise, USS Iowa turret explosion

Creator

United States Navy

• Support as nominator TomStar81 (Talk) 23:36, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support Edit 1 Very encyclopedic. Clegs (talk) 04:57, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
• Comment: Previously nominated back in April and failed, two opposes, two comments and a support as nominator. Neutral. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 12:00, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
• Comment I'll abstain for the moment but I was looking at this at full size and noticed some nasty aberrations on the gun barrels. I corrected that, downsampled, reduced noise and sharpened in edit 1. I'm not sure whether even the edit is of high enough quality considering that the damaged gun turret is not really prominent. -Fcb981^{(talk:contribs)} 22:38, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 09:31, 10 January 2008 (UTC)