Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Lightning 14.07.2009 20-42-33.JPG

File:Lightning 14.07.2009 20-42-33.JPG, featured

Voting period ends on 2 Aug 2009 at 11:14:02

•  Info created and uploaded by Simisa, nominated by Yann (talk) 11:14, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support Stunning picture of lightnings. The "wow" is certainly there. Yann (talk) 11:14, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support You beat me to it! Sarcastic ShockwaveLover (talk) 11:20, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --ComputerHotline (talk) 13:41, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support -- MJJR (talk) 14:13, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Question How come one sees four birds with different shades of grey in the middle? -- Klaus with K (talk) 15:43, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Comment I guess it is from the stroboscopic effect of the lightning during the exposure time of 2 seconds, i.e. the bird appears only during the short period of the bolts. -- Simisa (talk) 16:15, 24 July 2009 (UTC) -- The explanation of Simisa is correct: probably we have four images of one and the same bird during its flight. -- MJJR (talk) 20:54, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
  •  Comment This stroboscopic effect IMO adds quite a bit of value to the picture, and should probably be mentioned in the image description. It is also what makes me  Support this nomination. -- JovanCormac (talk) 19:53, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support Durova (talk) 17:34, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support--Two+two=4 (talk) 03:49, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support Per answer to my question above - the bird really tells you about timing and relative intensities. -- Klaus with K (talk) 10:14, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --Karel (talk) 19:59, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --Matasg 21:29, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

result: 10 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral =>  featured. --Karel (talk) 16:37, 4 August 2009 (UTC)