Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Pāhoehoe Lava flow.JPG

Image:Pāhoehoe Lava flow.JPG, featured

•  Info The tongue of advancing Pāhoehoe Lava flow at The Big Island of Hawai. The picture was taken from a helicopter. Created ,uploaded and nominated by Mbz1 --Mbz1 23:15, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Mbz1 23:15, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Very nice. Can't imagine how difficult this shot must have been. Dori - Talk 01:16, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Unique situation. Nice shadow detail. --Thermos 04:40, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
•  SupportVery nice! --Luc Viatour 07:44, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Oh, nice image. --Atoma 11:07, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --MichaelMaggs 11:16, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support -- Cecil 11:42, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support HOT! --Richard Bartz 11:53, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Digon3 ^talk 13:14, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Comment Thank you, everybody. I'm so glad you like the image. I feel kind of obligated to tell you more about taking of the image. I remembered how my other image (of Greenland's icebergs) taken from a helicopter was opposed and this time I decided to fly at a helicopter with no doors. There were no glass, no anything at all between all of me and the lava. I literally could have felt the heat and smell the sulfur, but these were not the biggest problems I had. You simply cannot imagine how windy it was. I've never experienced such a wind before. My other problem was that I tried to get out of a helicopter as much as seat belts allowed and few times I spoiled an image because my leg got under way as you could see here.

. My other problem was that the weather conditions changed rapidly from the sun to the rain and I kept changing the camera settings all the time. As a matter of fact, when we were flying over the crater, I forgot to change the settings and overexposed the image. There were so much smoke in the crater that I probably could not shot a dicent image anyway. Still it is something to remember and here it is.--Mbz1 14:54, 28 September 2007 (UTC)Mbz1

•  Support - Scary - Alvesgaspar 16:38, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Simonizer 17:19, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Romary 20:21, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Cool... ehm I mean hot :) /Daniel78 20:34, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose Nahh, I am just kidding.  Support of course. I suggest you add some geodata to the image page though. -- Slaunger 06:00, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Dark and beautiful. Vassil 10:17, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Simply amazing! --Egg 11:02, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Interesting image. Lycaon 11:32, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Excellent. Doodle-doo Ħ 13:03, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support my geological heart is applauding --Chmee2 13:21, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Nice! Calibas 04:22, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Wow! --LucaG 20:02, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Comment I'm surprised by the consensus on this picture, which I don't find as "impressive" as other people do. I do support pictures which have some flaws when they are the best we have on their subject and when they are different from what we usually see (which is clearly the case here), but I find quality of the photo low enough (Also, point of view doesn't help to get an idea of where it comes from, the size etc.) to raise a few question marks, so two questions : Is it that uncommon to catch lava on Haiwai or is it that difficult to perfectly get the shot in these conditions (whom I'm not quite aware of) ? Benh 21:26, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
  • So you support pictures that have some flaws, but you do not support pictures that have some flows. Just kidding. Thank you for you questions, Benh. You asked, if it is uncommon to catch lava in Hawaii. When we took the helicopter ride, we were told that it was the best show in 10 years. It is because most of the times lava in Hawaii is floating in tubes and the flow could be seen only, when it enters the ocean like at this my other image taken more than 2 years ago or in small pools of lava here and there. The lava flow that is shown in the nominated image was generated by the eruption that has started 7/21/07 and continues up to now. The conditions are changing hourly as well as the weather. One could see the flow at 10 a.m, miss it at 11a.m, get canceled flight at 12 p.m. and see the flow again at 1p.m. The answer to your second question is: everybody here knows what a sloppy photographer I am. So of course I'm sure almost anybody could have done a better job than I did. The catch is just to be in a right place at the right time. That's why I try to take pictures of some unusual places or/and phenomenas just to get them FP status. If we were allowed to hike to the flow probably even I have taken a better image, but the flow area is clossed due to wildfire danger as you could see from this image: . Btw I have updated the description and added information about the length of the lava flow.--Mbz1 22:42, 30 September 2007 (UTC)Mbz1
    • Thanks for your detailed answer and for the update (although I wonder if this is only the framed part which is 2km long or the whole thing, sooorry ;) ). I wish I could catch situations as unusual as yours. Benh 21:32, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
      • It is the length of the whole flow. I'm sure one day you will catch something like this too and I'm sure you will take a much better image and you will post it to Wikipedia and it will become FP and my image will get delisted--Mbz1 00:02, 2 October 2007 (UTC)22:48, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
•  Support unsharp, but I can overlook this flaw ;) --Leafnode 07:13, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
•  Support I've visited Hawaii Volcanoes National Park a dozen times or so over the last twenty years without being present for an event like this one. Walter Siegmund (talk) 02:33, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Basik07 20:56, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
•  Support beautiful and stunning --Ben^hello! 12:24, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

result: 25 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral => featured. --Benchat 09:49, 7 October 2007 (UTC)