Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Gas flare on top of a flare stack at Preemraff Lysekil 4.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena#Fire
•  Info ... or a Tibanna gas flare in Cloud City on Bespin. -- Cart (talk) 22:33, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Cart (talk) 22:33, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 03:32, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support I like simplicity of the composition and Wow effect created by the contrast between white pure clouds and black dirty smoke. All that on a background of the blue beautiful sky. Heat distortion is just a bonus. --Podzemnik (talk) 04:21, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose - Not beautiful or particularly interesting to me. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:08, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose - Per Ikan -- Basile Morin (talk) 06:52, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --MZaplotnik^(talk) 07:26, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose - Per others opponents, no wow. --Karelj (talk) 07:52, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Comment Thankfully, it's quite rare to see such black smoke from these flames. I happened to be there when this "belch" occurred. I liked the contrast as mentioned by Podzemnik, that's why I finally settled on this photo from the series. The other photo I considered was this with the clean flame and some steam: . Not sure I can offer it as an "Alt" but I can change the nom if that one is preferable. --Cart (talk) 09:45, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Exactly per Podzemnik. The "clean flame" isn't nearly as interesting a composition. -- Colin (talk) 10:39, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Basotxerri (talk) 20:04, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 05:44, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 11:00, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support per Podzemnik -- P999 (talk) 14:34, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose I actually like the clean one better. Even better might be trying to get them against a blue-hour sky to get that Blade Runner look. Daniel Case (talk) 21:16, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

• I would love to be able to do some proper blue-hour or night photos of the flames and the place, but the problem is that photography is strictly forbidden on the refinery premises. There are signs every 50 meters and cc-tv. I was actually at the windfarm there to get some shots of the lighthouses out at sea when I saw the flame. Unfortunately this time a security guard spotted me. I had to put on my best smile and "Jedi mind trick" to convince him to let me keep the photos and not delete them on the spot. I have snuck in a few times before at night with only an old, pocket camera and got away with it, but now I'm in their records so I have to be nice for a while. ;) --Cart (talk) 21:53, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Maybe you'll just have to get a Phantom one of these days and see if that would work ...

That night photo does have that Blade Runner look, though. One of these days I have a goal of stopping here along the New Jersey Turnpike at night and shooting away to the east. You get that industrial landscape with the Manhattan and Jersey City skylines in the background, lights everywhere. If the power plant in the distance is putting out steam with its red lights on the smokestacks, and there's just the right amount of cloudiness and/or fog, it gets the feel of that opening shot just right (even if it doesn't look exactly like it ... really, what could?). Daniel Case (talk) 02:51, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

•  Oppose Per Ikan, I don't see this as FP, sorry cart --Poco² 07:48, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

• Well, I'm not going only for the easy ones. ;) I think that if we are looking at some FPCs from an educational point of view, we should also include good photos of things that are not just beautiful or pretty, otherwise we get an unbalanced representation of what the world looks like. --Cart (talk) 09:34, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

• This black smoke is depressing as this flower was depressing too. Looking at the FPs in this category Natural_phenomena#Fire, no one is particularly "pretty", but all are supposed to be aesthetically successful. I understand the word "beautiful" like this, meaning "able to provoke an emotion (of any kind)". But when the picture is depressing, then its subject must be really exceptional, so that we think "wow, it makes life more interesting" -- Basile Morin (talk) 11:06, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

• I don't find the black smoke depressing, the swirls it makes against the sky form an interesting pattern, similar to a drop of ink in water. Again, your taste and mine differ; you see the smoke and I see the pattern. --Cart (talk) 11:16, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

• This evokes me pollution and bad smell. Concerning the pattern, it's brutally cut on the left -- Basile Morin (talk) 11:25, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

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Result: 9 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 05:03, 7 July 2018 (UTC)