Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Sunset Mirage and green blue flashes 1-11-09.jpg

File:Sunset Mirage and green blue flashes 1-11-09.jpg, not featured edit

Voting period ends on 23 Apr 2009 at 22:55:16

Info created , uploaded and nominated by Mbz1 -- Mbz1 (talk) 22:55, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Info Mock mirage of the setting sun with w:green flashes and w:sunspot in the first frame
Support -- Mbz1 (talk) 22:55, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Could you please provide an explanation for the sequence? Note: the images are tilted. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 23:05, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your comment. Before I'll explain the sequence may I please ask you, if all images are tilted or only some of them? I uploaded a new version. I hope I corrected the tilte.--Mbz1 (talk) 23:47, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Green flash that most of you propably have never seen is a sight to behold. Here's what Jules Verne wrote about green flashes:
"it will be ' green,' but a most wonderful green, a green which no artist could ever obtain on his palette, a green which neither the varied tints of vegetation nor the shades of the most limpid sea could ever produce the like ! If there be green in Paradise, it cannot but be of this shade, which most surely is the true green of Hope!
the incomparable tint of liquid jade"
Anyway I'd like to provide some explanation that was written by Dr. Andrew Young about my sequence:
"I think that really is a short duct, with the Sun becoming visible in the duct more quickly than one usually sees. Thanks for assembling this nice sequence! The sunset lasted quite long, didn't it? The optical path through the air is very great at the end; the images become more and more distorted by irregularities in the refraction -- both waves and turbulence."
Of course he wrote it for me, who knows at least someting about green flashes and mirages. I'd like to add that all images in the nominated sequence were taken during the same sunset and show nicely how the shape of the sun is changing in the process. If you'd like to ask more specific questions, please do. Thank you.--Mbz1 (talk) 00:06, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - Thanks for the explanations. The picture is too cluttered, less than half of the images would probably be enough to illustrate the phenomenon. Also, all of them should be perfectly aligned both horizontally and vertically. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 07:32, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If I only knew you were going to oppose the image anyway, I would have never ever provided an explanation :) :) Thank you for your vote and your comment.--Mbz1 (talk) 13:54, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support Yes, yes, yes! This may be the best photo of the green flash ever taken. All the pictures are necessary to really illustrate the phenomenon. --James J. Ludemann (talk) 10:50, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support I support both. --Notyourbroom (talk) 17:09, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support --ComputerHotline (talk) 17:28, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support This one is better. Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:39, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose Poor quality: individual pictures are only a fraction of size requirement!! Lycaon (talk) 20:23, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome back, Lycaon!--Mbz1 (talk) 20:40, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

result: 5 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral => not featured. Maedin\^talk 16:13, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Alt 1 Development of Green Flash, featured edit

Info I'm often asked how I know, wnen to press my shutter in order to catch a green flash. Here's the answer. I know, when green flash is coming.
Info The image could also be used for games to exercise attention. You know, like try to find the differences between two images :)
Support--Mbz1 (talk) 13:47, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support So beautiful. --Notyourbroom (talk) 18:06, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support - I like it and think it has a lot of educational value -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 18:33, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support --ComputerHotline (talk) 17:28, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support ■ MMXX^talk 11:00, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose Poor quality: individual pictures are only a fraction of size requirement!! Lycaon (talk) 20:23, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome back, Lycaon!--Mbz1 (talk) 20:40, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support-- Jean-Pol GRANDMONT (talk) 06:19, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

result: 6 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral => featured. Maedin\^talk 16:13, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]