Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Fan and Mortar Geysers

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Original – Fan and Mortar Geysers erupting simultaneously

Reason: This has high resolution and high EV and we currently have no other images of both erupting. It is a fundementally unpredictable event and this eruption was the first for 6 months. Q. - should I crop the bottom third of the image?
Articles in which this image appears: Fan and Mortar Geysers
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena/Others
Creator: Gilderien

Support as nominator --Gilderien Chat|List of good deeds 13:48, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I'm not sure I see the EV in having them both erupting at the same time. As such, capturing both seems to have come at a loss of capturing either particularly well, including the fact the right one appears cut off. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 19:02, 7 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Do you mean the cloud of steam extending to the right? It was just drifting for a long way down the river and to capture the whole of it would require going so far back as to render the geysers rather small.--Gilderien Chat|List of good deeds 19:15, 7 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What's the reason for the cloud extending so far right? The left one doesn't have much/any rightwards drift. If it's a crack or something it should probably be considered part of the geyser. Nevertheless I don't think if you separate the geysers each is particularly well photographed, but my reason for merely commenting is that others may have other ideas, so I put it to them to consider. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 19:25, 7 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No, there isn't a crack, I presume Fan geyser is slightly more sheltered as I checked my other photos and it was drifting in a different direction.--Gilderien Chat|List of good deeds 19:37, 7 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Unless there's a bug with interlaced JPEGs and Firefox - I did wait until it stopped loading - this has a lot of JPEG artefacting, and a lot of chromatic aberration. A pity, as it's otherwise quite a good shot, but the camera isn't up to it. I know the pain of that: I would love to do photographic FPCs, but I just don't have suitable equipment for most cases. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 23:57, 10 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:51, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]