Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/S-61 Refueling

Original - Refueling a Carson Helicopters Sikorsky S-61 Fire king helicopter during fire fighting operations in Southern River, Western Australia

Reason: Its a unique panaroma that shows one of the support functions that enable these craft to remain on the scene of a major fire for extended periods of time along with the precautions taken during refueling. The image has already been through peer review with all concerns addressed.
Articles this image appears in: Carson Helicopters, Aviation fuel
Creator: Gnangarra

Support as nominator --Gnan garra 08:18, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Focus seems a bit off on the helicopter, but enough detail is there and the problem is mitigated by the circumstances imo. Noodle snacks (talk) 08:23, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral focus is not just off on the helicopter, but it changes between all the images in the pano, which makes the image look very odd. This should have been shot with either manual focus to prevent the AF from changing the focal plane, or a smaller aperture. Anyhow, composition is very nice, and it is an interesting shot. --Dschwen 14:59, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support - I can see the focus changes Dschwen and NS note but at a reasonable resolution it looks very good and I think that this composition works well with the subject. - Peripitus (Talk) 13:03, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support per my comments at PPR. --jjron (talk) 08:14, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support The focus could be better, but this is a panorama, not a macro! It shows everything well (perhaps not very well), and extremely high enc value.--HereToHelp ^{(talk to me)} 20:30, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Refueling panorama gnangarra.jpg MER-C 02:01, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]