Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Lava wildfire at hawaii.jpg

Image:Lava wildfire at hawaii.jpg - featured

•  InfoPāhoehoe Lava flow on the coastal plain of Kīlauea, The Big Island of Hawai generated wildfire. The new lava is moving across the old surface ,which is covered with a layer of moss about an inch thick. This moss is burning generating the smoke visible in the image. This kind of fire cannot be easily prevented or suppressed. The update that was written by USGS for the same day the image was taken - 09/04/07 says :"Lava flows advancing through vegetation are hazardous and can produce fire and methane explosions that propel chunks of lava and rock several feet into the air." The picture was taken from a helicopter.
•  Info created, uploaded and nominated by Mbz1 -- Mbz1 14:40, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

•  Support -- Mbz1 14:40, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Helpful image description and acceptable quality. Freedom to share 14:57, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
•  Support It's an attractive image and will make a unique FP (as far as I know!) -- Ram-Man 03:02, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --Beyond silence 20:22, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose Not convinced by the framing : if purpose was to show moss fire, far too far, if to show lava flow progression far too close. And also CA or ligthening flaws on the back black old lavas --B.navez 02:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

• Well, the intention of the image was to show both lava flow and the fire it created, and IMO it does show both. The subject is so uncommon and so hard to photograph through a glass of a helicopter window that IMO some mitigating circumstances might apply. Thank you.--Mbz1 12:50, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

•  Support Acceptable sharpness --βαςε_LXIV™ 15:15, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --Böhringer 20:44, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose While a rare event, the picture is boring. Crapload 19:07, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

6 support, 2 oppose >> featured -- Alvesgaspar 07:25, 28 May 2008 (UTC)