Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:STS-134 launch seen from a shuttle training aircraft 4 - edited.jpg
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Info created by NASA - original uploaded by Ras67 - edited and nominated by W.carter -- Cart (talk) 16:36, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
Abstain as nominator. Space shuttle Endeavour and its six-member STS-134 crew break through the cloud cover over Florida after launch, as they head toward Earth orbit and rendezvous with the International Space Station. I stumbled upon this photo a few days ago, liked it and thought it might be worth a try here. An early digital photo from 2011, so some technical issues, but I think the 'wow' still holds. The photo was taken through the window of an airplane, so a bit hazy and tinted by the glass. I gave the photo a cleanup in that I tried to "undo" the window glass. Also added some sharpness and noise reduction, plus cropped it. -- Cart (talk) 16:36, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
Support This image probably would need some explanation to go with it to understand what it is but it is an intriguing subject from an unusual perspective with lots of wow. Technical considerations are fine. --GRDN711 (talk) 18:20, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
Oppose Interesting, but small and posterized, and the light beam on the left doesn't help. --Commonists 18:22, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
- Support Amazing! They could have cropped some from the top, but that's a minor point, and the great wow of this image overrides Commonists' concerns for me. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:29, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Serious technical issues. Posterized, unsharp, tilted. And harsh contrasts. Normal document of an interesting subject, not special as "one of our best images" here -- Basile Morin (talk) 00:38, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
- Support Daniel Case (talk) 01:25, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
Comment This is one of those photos from the space shuttle program that circulate years and years after (I found out), bordering on making it iconic. We see these launces as big and fantastic events, but the scale of the shuttle in this photo makes it more understandable what insignificant farts we are on the grand scale. As for tilt... Is there really tilt in space? When you deal with the curvature of Earth, I think tilt goes out the window. I also like the ray of the sun mimicing and "welcoming" the shuttle. --Cart (talk) 08:15, 7 June 2021 (UTC)- Oppose If the quality were better it would be an FP.--Ermell (talk) 20:32, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
- Support per Cart, the unique value of the image leads me to overlook technical flaws. Buidhe (talk) 08:18, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose this overprocessed edit, original file has better quality. --Ivar (talk) 15:23, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
- Support.--Vulp❯❯❯here! 07:00, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
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