Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/River Visual approach

River Visual approach edit

A McDonnell Douglas MD-87 flying the famous River Visual approach into Ronald Reagan National Airport.

Edit 1 by Thegreenj

Reason: Good visual representation of an aircraft flying a challenging approach into DCA. No "subject cut off" comments please as the Lincoln Memorial isn't intended to be the main subject.
Articles this image appears in: Ronald Reagan National Airport
Creator: User:Noclip

Support as nominator — Noclip 02:39, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Added edit 1: unsharp masking, levels, curves adjusted. J Are you green? 03:42, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Looks like Technicolor now. --Dschwen 07:05, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Apart from thinking it could use a little more headroom on the top I find it aesthetically pleasing. However as there is no indication of an airport in the pic I don't see how it represents the visual approach or how it documents it being difficult. There is a lot of space in the picture, which from a compositional standpoint is invested very well, but the enc return seems little to me. Convince me otherwise ;-) --Dschwen 07:04, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Yeah I agree with Dschwen again. I'm not convinced it offers enough to the article. I look at the image and don't really learn anything about the airport or the River Visual approach other than its vaguely nearby the Lincoln Monument and a road. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 16:12, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
oppose, this image doesn't tell me anything about the approach or its challenge level except that it's over DC (which is pretty obvious). Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 16:58, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, per Diliff and Night Gyr.--Svetovid 20:27, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, I really don't like the distortion on the monument. To be honest, the image looks like a panorama of the monument, that happened to include passing plane by accident. Making this a FP about the plane is stretching it. Stevage 02:04, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, Stevage couldn't have said it better. -- Phoenix2 ^{(talk, review)} 03:19, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, there must be an angle in DC which shows how close the airport is to the city without... not showing the airport at all. gren グレン 19:17, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn Noclip 01:58, 25 May 2007 (UTC) Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:25, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Expired nomination. Makeemlighter (talk) 03:25, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]