Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Grand Prismatic Spring - top view

Grand Prismatic Spring

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 28 Dec 2022 at 02:20:39 (UTC)

Original – Top view of the Grand Prismatic Spring. The bright colors are produced by thermophiles (a type of extremophile). The orange color is due to carotenoid molecules produced by cyanobacteria and other bacteria [1][2].

Reason

Top view of the Grand Prismatic Spring. Technically not flawless, but good enough IMO, and used in many articles. We do have a FP of this site: here, a low resolution side view used in the infobox of the primary article. I think the higher resolution top view deserves a nomination. FP on Commons. If this nom passes, I will nominate the existing aerial FP for delist.

Articles in which this image appears

Grand Prismatic Spring, Carotenoid, Thermophile, Extremophile, Archaea, Geyser, +5

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Others

Creator

Carsten Steger

• Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 02:20, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
• Weak support - detail lacking somewhat at the pixel level but partially mitigated by this being an aerial shot. MER-C 19:13, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
• Weak oppose - It looks decent, but we already have an FP-quality image of this place, which I feel is rather superior in EV. -- Veggies (talk) 06:04, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

• Delist older one and replace - I wasn't aware of the other aerial FP image. This one here is much better quality. If we can accept the possibility of multiple FPs of the same figure/object, then the older aerial image should be delisted in favor of this one. -- Veggies (talk) 17:01, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

• Veggies, about "delist and replace" see my comment in this recent nom. I will nominate the existing aerial FP for delist shortly after (and if) this nom passes. That image isn't used in any articles, so it will certainly be delisted. Bammesk (talk) 01:29, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

• In that case, I wholeheartedly support. Thanks. -- Veggies (talk) 02:17, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

• Comment - I'm not sure whether, as the creator of the image, I'm allowed to vote. I would like to comment that currently there is an aerial shot that is rated as an FP. While the present image is not technically flawless, IMO it is an improvement compared to the current aerial shot FP because the colors are closer to reality. Also, I believe the EV of the aerial shot is greater than that of the ground-based shot because the aerial shot allows one to see the inner structure of the spring. --Carsten Steger (talk) 17:55, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

• Carsten, yes you can vote. Examples: [3] [4]. Bammesk (talk) 04:28, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

• Support – The ground-level view and the aerial view are both very informative, in different ways. There are other subjects with more than one FP, and this image seems deserving to me on its own merits. Choliamb (talk) 22:18, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
• Support --Carsten Steger (talk) 05:03, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
• Support TheFreeWorld (talk) 09:49, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Promoted File:Aerial image of Grand Prismatic Spring (view from the south).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:16, 28 December 2022 (UTC)