Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hurricane Ike damage

Damage from Hurricane Ike in Gilchrist, Texas

Original - A lone house standing amongst the numerous sites of houses that were destroyed in Gilchrist, Texas by Hurricane Ike. On September 13, 2008, Gilchrist was devastated by the storm, which completely destroyed all but few homes. The coastline along Gilchrist, once a straight line, became jagged and desolate, permanently altered by Ike's turbulent storm tide. Of the 1,000 buildings in Gilchrist, 99.5% of them were knocked off of their foundations.

Reason

Aside from the obvious encyclopedic value, in my opinion the image is interesting and high-quality.

Articles this image appears in

Hurricane Ike, Effects of Hurricane Ike in Texas

Creator

Jocelyn Augusitno/FEMA

• Support as nominator --–Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 02:31, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
• Comment this picture is much more powerful. Renata (talk) 02:47, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Actually, I believe the current candidate depicts the damage and details more closely. –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone}

02:51, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

• • • I'm not interested in the specific pieces of debris but rather the extent of the damage. The alternative linked above conveys the scale much better, but unfortunately it's too small.--HereToHelp ^{(talk to me)} 13:52, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
      • It's also not in the PD, unless it came from somewhere else. Cheers, –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 15:32, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support - nice image. iMatthew // talk // 17:14, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose Though powerful, issues with sharpness, noise, and an awkward viewing angle make me oppose. Spencer^T♦C 19:18, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Thank you for your feedback. I'm fairly new to photography, so could you please point out where you see noise in the image? Thanks, –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 21:24, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
    • The wikipedia article is Image noise; and as an example, I see some on the roof of the house. Spencer^T♦C 21:49, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
      • That's what I thought at first, too, but it seems to me that the noise on the roof of the house is actually the varying colors of the shingles. –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 21:54, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
        • Also try looking under the house, and in pools of water. It's the little speckles that are the noise, and IMO it looks more like noise than shingle patterns...shingles would probably appear in neat rows. In addition, the file name, "File:Hurricane Ike Gilchrist damage edit.jpg" indicates that an edit was performed from the original, "File:Hurricane Ike Gilchrist damage.jpg". Could you say how the image was edited in the image summary (see the other versions section of File:Amsterdam_photochrom2.jpg, for example). Thanks, Spencer^T♦C 22:12, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
          • Ok, done. –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 22:23, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
            • Whoops, I didn't mean in the caption. I'll move it to the image description. Spencer^T♦C 02:03, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

• Weak oppose per Spencer. In particular, the awkward angle is what holds this back, for me.--ragesoss (talk) 03:46, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Not promoted . --The Nordic Goddess Kristen ^{Worship her} 02:59, 19 January 2009 (UTC)