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An eruption plume rising over Semeru, with Mount Bromo(?) in the foreground (It is not clear from the category description which mountains are depicted.)
Reason
The image was promoted in 2004 (currently listed under 'Places: Landscapes') and the featured picture criteria have changed since then. Specifically, the image does not meet criteria 1 and 3. The image is grainy and seems to have JPEG artifacts (near the boundary between the sky and the mountainside). In addition, the lighting is such that the bottom half of the image is overly dark and, thus, large areas of the mountains contain virtually no visible detail. The image is informative and encyclopedic, but I do not think it continues to be "among Wikipedia's best work"; we do, by the way, have at least two other featured pictures (see here) which show eruption columns.
Articles this image appears in
Indonesia, List of volcanoes in Indonesia, Semeru, Snowball Earth, West African craton
Previous nomination/s
Original FPC nomination (2004)
Nominator
-- Black Falcon (talk)

Delisted --Makeemlighter (talk) 23:13, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]