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•  Info created by Shalom Jacobovitz, uploaded and nominated by Mbz1 -- Mbz1 (talk) 19:36, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
•  Support -- Mbz1 (talk) 19:36, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
•  Comment Great action shot. One should not be deceived by the apparently not so great technical quality. A 400mm lens is used as a safe distance have to be kept to these monster waves at the Maverick. I think it is extremely difficult to get much better unless you are hovering in a helicopter close by - and those are usually not freely licensed. Soemthing should be done about the indicated blurred area though. Dunno if a crop will do? --Slaunger (talk) 20:24, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

The image was taken from a boat. Here's how Shal describes the boat ride: "The boat was very rocky. Many people got sea sick though. One guy (photog) never even got any pictures he was so sick." The image was not freely licensed at all. I asked Shal via private email to release a high resolution image with a free license, and he kindly agreed. I would not like to crop the image. The break of the wave is amazing IMO, and I would not like to cut anything off this wave.--Mbz1 (talk) 20:43, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Well, thank you for making an effort to get it freely licensed. I understand your concern regarding cropping. Have you tried just to see how it looks? If it does not work, could the blurred area be repaired somehow then? I find it distracting. Should we ask our favorite physical oceanographer for help ? Or perhaps Lošmi could help? I do not know if he has a magic wand or what, but he managed to get from this to this FP (completed helicopter and sky). --Slaunger (talk) 21:01, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

I did not try to do anything with the image. To cut off the "blurred" part means to cut off the most amazing part of the wave. Honestly I wished the smaller zoom were used to get the whole wave into the picture. In the example you have provided the correction was more or less easy. I could have done it myself. IMO to change this image is quite a different story. The surface and even the color of the wave is different in different parts. I am not sure the correction could be done without making too much of digital manipulations, but of course, if somebody wishes to give it a try...--Mbz1 (talk) 21:25, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Are we speaking of the same blurred area in the lower left corner (annotation)?--Slaunger (talk) 21:46, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

For some reason the annotation does not work for me, but now I understood what you're talking about, and tried to fix it.--Mbz1 (talk) 23:27, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

•  Support, even with blurred area at lower left. The shot starts to lose its force if this bottom strip is simply cropped off, IMO. -- Avenue (talk) 23:12, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Edit 1 cloned out the left lower corner

•  Support--Mbz1 (talk) 23:24, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
•  Support --Patriot8790 (talk) 05:14, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
•  Comment The cloning is nice and smooth, but instead of the wave gradually leveling out closer to the viewer, the edited part now steepens again. (Perhaps rotating before cloning could avoid this.) And I don't see a fuzzy foreground as being much worse than the blurred background, so I still support the original version over edit 1. -- Avenue (talk) 09:55, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
•  Support —kallerna™ 10:48, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
•  Support --George Chernilevsky ^talk 13:20, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
•  Support good action shot. Durova (talk) 19:03, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
•  Strong support WOW --Cesco77 (talk) 20:02, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
•  Support Strong wow mitigates minor quality issues. --Slaunger (talk) 20:13, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
•  Support, although the quality is not fantastic – but the composition is great --Dein Freund der Baum (talk) 01:00, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
•  Support Je-str (talk) 09:32, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
•  Support Good action shot. --MattiPaavola (talk) 10:04, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
•  Support Bidgee (talk) 14:39, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
•  Support --Cayambe (talk) 17:34, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
•  Support --Böhringer (talk) 21:18, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
•  Support --Michael Gäbler (talk) 00:52, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
•  Support -- Jean-Pol GRANDMONT (talk) 13:37, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
•  Support --kaʁstn Disk/Cat 13:40, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
•  Support Wow! --Karel (talk) 20:40, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
•  Support --Herby ^{talk thyme} 09:12, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
•  Support--Amir (talk) 02:37, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
•  Support --Brackenheim (talk) 19:29, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 20 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 20:46, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Sports

The chosen alternative is: File:2010_mavericks_competition_edit1.jpg