Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:USS Vella Gulf (CG-72) through a wave - 090228-N-1082Z-004.jpg

File:USS Vella Gulf (CG-72) through a wave - 090228-N-1082Z-004.jpg, not featured

Voting period ends on 16 Sep 2009 at 09:16:43 (UTC)
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•  Info created by MC2 Jason R. Zalasky - uploaded and nominated by Sarcastic ShockwaveLover -- Sarcastic ShockwaveLover (talk) 09:16, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
•  Support -- Sarcastic ShockwaveLover (talk) 09:16, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
•  Support -- TonyBallioni (talk) 12:42, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
• Motiv good, quality bad (not the best) →  Neutral --kaʁstn 19:19, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
•  Support -- Cool image. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 18:16, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
•  Support Reminds me going around Cape Horn.--Mbz1 (talk) 22:08, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose Heavy seas??? Bad timing and average quality. Lycaon (talk) 21:02, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
  •  Comment Considering that the Ticonderoga Class of cruisers (one seen here in drydock) has a 10m draught (distance for keel to waterline) and that the wave reached the top of the bow (about another 10m) I'd say that that counts as 'heavy seas'. The spectacle of roughly 9600 tonnes of metal crashing into a wave higher than a house is something I think should be featured. Sarcastic ShockwaveLover (talk) 14:30, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose Bad crop. —kallerna™ 09:47, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
  •  Comment I don't think it's cropped. The bridges of these cruisers don't look really good for photographing off, due to the many windows (as you can see in this picture), so I think it was taken from the walkway on the right side of the bridge. That would account for the angle, as it's simply not possible to take a photo from the bridge itself without getting window frames in-shot. This is the bestshot one could hope to get under the circumstances. Sarcastic ShockwaveLover (talk) 14:30, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
    •  Comment You would get better crop with for instance 14mm lens. —kallerna™ 15:39, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose Composition and technical quality IMO not sufficient. --NEUROtiker ^⇌ 09:20, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 4 support, 3 oppose, 1 neutral → not featured. /Yann (talk) 22:15, 16 September 2009 (UTC)