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Image 1 - Panoramic view of Meteor Crater, over a kilometer (~3/4 mile) across
Image 2 - Satellite view of the crater
Image 3 - POV shot of the crater
Old picture by Dschwen, not for voting, just to freak out Raeky :-)
Reason
All appear to be very high quality photos of the giant, dozens-of-millenia-old hole in the ground that I thought were pretty eye-catching, have high EV, so I thought it was worth a shot to nominate one or all of them.
Articles in which this image appears
Meteor Crater
FP category for this image
Panoramas, Views of Earth from space and satellites or Landscapes
Creator
Cburnett, NASA and Alan Levine
  • Support as nominator --I'ḏOne 01:53, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Image 2 Only one I can support is the one from space, the panorama doesn't show nearly enough of the rim to get an idea of what your looking at, same with the other image. — raekyT 04:04, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • The panorama is not up to current standards. It lacks the details to get an idea of the scale (for example you can barely make out the fenced in part at the bottom of the crater). I've been to that crater in 2004. And I'm sure I took pictures, but the quality is probably even more out of date now :-) --Dschwen 13:09, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support image 2, oppose image 3, weak oppose image 1. EV solid on the NASA shot, and I actually liked it more than I thought when I zoomed in. Image 3 is "just another shot" tacked on to the bottom of the article- not really seeing what it's adding, and the colour/quality is a bit off. Image 1 has fair EV, but I don't think the quality is quite what I'd like to see from a panorama. I can also see (what I assume are) stitching problems. Just follow the horizon along. J Milburn (talk) 23:23, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment on Old picture by Dschwen Actually if the colors didn't look so muted I'd say that's probably the best panorama we have of the creator. Maybe a tweek in photoshop to make the colors pop more and I would support that. Doesn't freak me out, why would you think so? lol. Except that I suspect you've been everywhere on the damn planet by now, every place that we nominate you have a picture of as well! Wish I could afford to travel as much. — raekyT 03:57, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 01:13, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]