Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Cloudscape Over the Philippine Sea.jpg

File:Cloudscape Over the Philippine Sea.jpg, featured

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•  Info created by NASA - uploaded & nominated by Originalwana (talk) 11:22, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Info Flying over the Philippine Sea, an astronaut looked toward the horizon from the International Space Station and shot this photograph of three-dimensional clouds, the thin blue envelope of the atmosphere, and the blackness of space. The late afternoon sunlight brightens a broad swath of the sea surface on the right side of the image. In the distance, a wide layer of clouds mostly obscures the northern Philippine islands (top right).

Looking toward the Sun to capture an image is a special technique used by astronauts to accentuate the three dimensions of landscapes and cloudscapes through the use of shadows. Two large thunderclouds rise next to one another (lower right).

•  Support As nominator Originalwana (talk) 11:22, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 01:47, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 17:21, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I was going to oppose because I didn't see anything that distinguished it from all the other pictures we have of the Earth from space, but then I took a closer look and spent a little time being charmed by all those nimbus clouds welling up at the rear of the sunglinted area (And I still think it would be a stronger picture cropped down to that part). Daniel Case (talk) 18:51, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support lNeverCry 01:10, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - It took me a while to decide how to judge this photo, because it's not a conventional composition. But that's part of the reason it should be featured: Photos from the Space Station are not and cannot be a common genre at this time. And the documentation helps the viewer find what's so interesting about the photo. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:30, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Reguyla (talk) 03:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 7 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Ivar (talk) 14:34, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Satellite images