Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Nathorst glacier, Svalbard, at midnight sun.jpg

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Nathorst glacier, Svalbard, from above
  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural#Arctic
  •  Info created, uploaded and nominated by AWeith -- AWeith (talk) 09:58, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Info When flying from Oslo to Longyearbyen I was lucky in several ways: i) the airplane was brandnew, thus the windowpanes were scratch-free; ii) the clouds left a hole exactly on top of this part of Svalbard; iii) the - almost midnight - sun shone across the glacier leaving a miraculous light; iv) I had a window seat on the right and the pilot took a right turn just across the main glacier; and v) I had my camera ready for the swift shot (despite the fact I have it almost always ready...). I was particularly intrigued by the clarity with which the glacier's surface was seen and that - by viewing from above - all the feeder streams were clearly visible. -- AWeith (talk) 09:58, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:38, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Luck is a very important ingredient in good photography. In addition to this pic's high EV and quality, it is also the kind of photo you want to have printed on canvas and hang in your living room. cart-Talk 11:11, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Question It is possible to get a "other version" (same way as I mentioned before) of this with an approximate size marker, sort of like in this picture? Since it is an areal photo of snowy structures, it is very hard to tell how large tings are if you are not used to looking at arctic landscapes. Looking at this site on Google maps, it looks like the distance between the two center peaks could be around 1.5-2 km. Just me being a Wikipedia nerd again. cart-Talk 11:11, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • My apologies for refusing to include a single scale bar. You may understand that in this image we find a vanishing point perspective which makes a scale valid just for a single small region. However, as I understand your desire very well, I have included a version that shows the width of some of these glacier streams as taken from the meter included in Google earth. --AWeith (talk) 17:42, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support The light of the midnight sun, something you can only fully appreciate when you've experienced it, really brings out the Hoth-like qualities of this snowscape. Compositionally it isn't as striking as it could be, but where else can the average photographer get an aerial view of a glacier that reveals it like this? So we are rewarding you for taking advantage of the luck you had. Daniel Case (talk) 17:01, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • You may want to mention that the photo is taken at midnight during the midnight sun in the file's description (even if it's in the file name) otherwise people may think that the timestamp is wrong (since many are), if they even bother to look at it. Funny thing is that many nominators often write elaborate descriptions in their nomination, which will be gone from easy view in a week or two, but leave out interesting facts on the file page which will be around for years. cart-Talk 17:42, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • The timestamp says 24 July 2015, 23:40:21 and so do the metadata, don't they? Do you see other values? I have taken your advice and included a respective sentence in the description; thank you. --AWeith (talk) 18:11, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
(Edit conflict)* Your timestamp and metadata are no doubt correct, I was not referring to them, there are many other cameras out there not set to the right time and many, many photos uploaded with the wrong timestamp. That's why people sometimes mistrust such information. You entered here at the very top, but spend some time in the murky waters of the underbelly of this site and you develop a healthy cynicism. :-/ Anyway, thanks for adding the text. cart-Talk 19:03, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 17 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /lNeverCry 22:36, 10 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Natural#Arctic
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