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File:Svitjordbreen on Svalbard calving.jpg, featured edit

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Info created, uploaded and nominated by AWeith -- AWeith (talk) 22:21, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Info I bring this image to your attention for the second time. According to the initial comments by Ivar and Ikan Kekek I have changed brightness, contrast, and field of view. I also tried to convey the magical evening mood by adjusting the color temperatures a bit. As I wrote before, this gigantic calving took place in the later evening after the Svitjordbreen as a paramount example for a surging glacier was busy leaving small icebergs to the fjord all day. None of those calvings compared to the one in the evening shown here. We stayed at a safe distance, i.e. approximately 500 meters (one usually stays away from the glacier front for about five times its height), because we took in mind that in the past quite a few people have been hurt or even killed by ice chunks during calvings. We experienced the offshoot of the induced freakwave nevertheless. Please take the resorting gulls as a scale for what happened at the glacier front.-- AWeith (talk) 22:21, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support An event of such magnitude that it is almost hard to grasp when looking at it on a monitor. --cart-Talk 07:29, 15 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support per cart. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:38, 15 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 10:58, 15 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Code (talk) 13:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kruusamägi (talk) 08:30, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
strong support just grand! --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 10:57, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral Certainly a great moment joined with very much luck to catch it. Nevertheless the wow effect doesn't want to come over me. I don't know why but the drama of the moment is hardly perceptible for me in this picture. --Hockei (talk) 11:32, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support Ideally a picture of a glacier calving so explosively would take in more of it, but I understand the limitations you were under. Taking into account what Hockei says, to me the drama comes through in full-res, when we see the chunks of ice frozen (ahem) in mid-air, and in contrast the birds flying around near the bottom of the icefall like this happens every day (which, of course, from their perspective, it does). Daniel Case (talk) 16:20, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support At first I was a bit confused with this. But when I opened it big I was certainly impressed. --Ximonic (talk) 23:10, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 02:21, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Per Hockei. I think this kind of event is best captured using video. Here the sense of violent motion and size is limited, and so is less wowing to me than it might be if I could see and hear the event take place. lNeverCry 20:46, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Thennicke (talk) 03:24, 22 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 10 support, 1 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /lNeverCry 08:26, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Natural phenomena#Ice