Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Sediment in the Gulf of Mexico (2).jpg

File:Sediment in the Gulf of Mexico (2).jpg, not featured

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What's this funny little red thing? —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 17:55, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

•  Info created by NASA - uploaded & nominated by Originalwana (talk) 10:49, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
•  Info Tropical Storm Ida had come ashore over Alabama and Florida, immediately east of the area shown here, a few hours before the image was acquired. Much of the dirt that colours the water is likely re-suspended sediment dredged up from the sea floor in shallow waters.
•  Support As nominator Originalwana (talk) 10:49, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
•  Support Basik07 (talk) 20:20, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
•  Oppose Certainly valuable, but the raster in the dark blue ocean (even visible in the thumbnail) disappoints me. --99of9 (talk) 22:58, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
  •  Comment I suppose you mean the diagonal stripes (presumably artifacts of the satellite imaging method)? I suppose I could try editing them out later — if I could get the mesh out of File:Speyer Dom BW 1 (edit).jpg, I should be able to fix a couple of stripes. Not on this laptop, though. And not over the original image. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 20:02, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
    •  Comment Yes, that is what I'm referring to. --99of9 (talk) 21:34, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
•  Support --Mbz1 (talk) 20:29, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

•  Info As promised, I tried to edit this image to reduce the stripy artifacts. Here's what I came up with:

—Ilmari Karonen (talk) 19:53, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

•  Support This version. Well improved thanks Ilmari. --99of9 (talk) 01:28, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
•  Support This version. I see a red four-sided figure north of Houston. What is it? Will you remove it? --Michael Gäbler (talk) 21:43, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

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Result: 3 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 11:54, 15 January 2010 (UTC)