Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Kalapana May 2009.jpg

File:Kalapana May 2009.jpg, featured

Voting period ends on 13 Jul 2009 at 23:26:05

•  Info created, uploaded and nominated by Mbz1 -- Mbz1 (talk) 23:26, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Info The image was cropped not downsampled--Mbz1 (talk) 12:45, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Info Few years ago Kalapana was a very nice, little town with blooming gardens at the Big Island on Hawaii. In 1990 it was buried by lava flow. Most homes were destroyed, but few including famous painted church were moved to other locations. There are no paved roads, no any utilities, no even cell phone services in Kalapana. There is only w:lava, and now new lava is coming back. Just few hundreds meters down new lava enters the ocean File:Three Waikupanaha and one Ki lava ocean entries w-edit2.jpg, yet the trees have no problem in growing up and even blooming in Kalapana, and few people came back and rebuilt.
•  Support -- Mbz1 (talk) 23:26, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support wonderful allegory of hope after a catastrophe of a volcanic eruption. -- Ra'ike T C 23:41, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --Econt (talk) 03:14, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support - anonyme vote --George Chernilevsky (talk) 09:06, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support excellent view! Bit small... I strong support this photo --George Chernilevsky (talk) 09:06, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support good composition --ianaré (talk) 23:17, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose IMHO it doesn't have enough wow, quality is just decent. —kallerna™ 02:07, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose What happened? Nothing is sharp. --Estrilda (talk) 05:47, 6 July 2009 (UTC) Vote cancelled after first closure as a follow-up on this checkuser request and following discussion and overall consensus at the administrators' noticeboard. --Slaunger (talk) 20:49, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
•  Question - Is this photo of a part of the town that used to have houses? Are the houses on the beach the last remaining houses? In other words, is the site special? Downtowngal (talk) 23:55, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your question, Downtowngal. More than 100 houses were destroyed by the lava flow in 1990 in Kalapana. The town used to have streets and gardens. They had their own church. They are there no more. The church was moved to a safer location. The streets and gardens were covered by lava. Some kids went to school, and came back to see their houses on fire. People tried to make a desperate bargain with Pele ,the goddess of fire. They threw bottles with wine to the approaching lava in hope Pele would have some pity on them. It did not help. There were many heartbreaking stories. One young family had volcano insurance. Their policy was canceled with no reason, few days before the lava was about to destroy their home. Their friends helped young couple to move the entire home to a different location. Today some people came back to Kalapana. There are few houses here and there. I do not think there is a beach there, but I am not sure about this. I've never approached any of the houses. It is a private property, and they do not like tourists to come around. I understand them very well. IMO this site is very, very special. I hope I answered your question, but if I did not, please feel free to ask me more. If I am still around by that time, I sure will respond .--Mbz1 (talk) 00:19, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

•  Support - Thanks, Mbz1. I wish the photo were sharper, but the composition symbolizes the meaning of the site so well I make an exception. Downtowngal (talk) 00:52, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support =^ Downtowngal --Böhringer (talk) 09:18, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support The composition is awesome! →Diti the penguin — 11:26, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, Diti! Is this a comment or support? I am asking because you said "support" in the edit summary, but I see no support in the nomination --Mbz1 (talk) 12:40, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, it was a support, I forgot to use the template. :) →Diti the penguin — 16:11, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

•  Oppose Blurry. Lycaon (talk) 17:04, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
• weak  Oppose It is a nice composition...but for the quite easy conditions I also wonder why it isn't really sharp. --AngMoKio (talk) 14:04, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Info There was strong wind at the site. Here's the image that was taken at the same day and which shows a steam devil at volcanic plume w:File:Steam devil.jpg. Steam devils form, when strong wind is present.So "conditions" were not easy at all.@AngMoKio. I believe now, when you learned more about the contitions, you could safely change your weak oppose to weak support --Mbz1 (talk) 15:28, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

really a clever plant there...it simply doesn't care about the wind. --AngMoKio (talk) 19:10, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

I am not sure I follow you. You said the image "isn't really sharp" under "easy conditions" . I said the condition were not easy because of the wind, and now, if I understood you right, you say that the plant "simply doesn't care about the wind", which to me means that you believe that the plant is sharp enough. You see, no matter what it is time to change your vote for "support" .--Mbz1 (talk) 03:45, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

You know I just wondered why the plant isn't affected by the strong wind? --AngMoKio (talk) 07:19, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I understood this. I am asking what does it mean "the plant isn't affected by the strong wind". Do you believe that the plant is sharp enough?--Mbz1 (talk) 08:48, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

No, unfortunately I don't think that the plant is sharp. --AngMoKio (talk) 09:00, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

But if it is not sharp, how do you know that it is not sharp because of the wind?--Mbz1 (talk) 09:06, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

You said it is not sharp because of the wind, not me. I don't know why it is not sharp. I just wanted to say the plant doesn't look like as if there is a strong wind. --AngMoKio (talk) 11:24, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

I have never said anything was not sharp at the image. I said the conditions were not easy because of strong wind, and I proved strong wind with another image. On the other hand, when you say that conditions were easy, and the plant is not sharp, but not because of the wind, it is what is called "speculations" in the court of low, and speculations they are.--Mbz1 (talk) 12:18, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

•  Oppose Not sharp enough. Maedin\^talk 14:03, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

result: 8 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral => not featured. Maedin\talk 16:23, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

One oppose vote has been cancelled as a follow-up on this checkuser request and following discussion and overall consensus at the administrators' noticeboard. --Slaunger (talk) 20:49, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Revised result: 8 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral => featured. --Slaunger (talk) 20:49, 5 November 2009 (UTC)