Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Kingman Reef

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[edit] Kingman Reef

Reason: This is a very pretty photo, and a very rare one. As the Kingman Reef is very hard to get to (see Image:Orthographic projection over Kingman Reef.png ). This is also something most people are not aware of, and a lot of people could learn something from it.
Articles this image appears in: Kingman Reef
Creator: User:Joann94024
Nominator: Indolences

Support — Indolences 17:44, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Oppose. I realize that this is a difficult photo to obtain, but it just looks like a sand spit that I might see at some beach. howcheng {chat} 18:03, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Oppose Tilted horizon - Adrian Pingstone 19:16, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
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  - Perfect! - Adrian Pingstone 09:23, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Oppose - nice shot, but lots of jpeg artifacts. And to be honest, I do agree with howcheng - It looks sort of ordinary, lacking wow factor. Is there anything else around it that could be included in the shot, that might make me want to learn more? tiZom_(2¢) 23:33, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Oppose As above...Also, the picture is quite blurry and that red rope in the bottom completely takes away from the asthetics. -Midnight Rider 00:24, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Oppose. The first problem is that it's not very good at representing the reef. It shows a small part of it which, while aesthetically pleasing, does little to represent it in an encyclopedia article. Try the commons, maybe? gren グレン 04:15, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Oppose nice for a desktop, not exactly great for Featured Image, per above. And "if" we were to go into aesthetics the red rope kind of ruins it for me :/. ~ Arjun 04:17, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Oppose Can't be that hard to get to, since someone left a rope, a pottery plant and an empty bottle there. Also, it tells me nothing about the reef other than that it's made of gravel. ~ trialsanderrors 20:34, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Take a closer look. That isn't gravel; it's shells. The rope is i'm guessing connected to the boat the photographer arrived on. The bottle might have a message inside. The "pottery plant" appears to be a coconut with maybe a palm growing out of it. As for it being not so hard to get to..

Yes, it is pretty darn close to Palmyra atoll, but Palmyra is uninhabited. The closest thing is either Johnston atoll, which only military is allowed on the last time I checked, and Kiritimati (the largest atoll in the world), part of the island nation of Kiribati. Kiritimati has 5,000 or so people. Think Mcfly, think! --Indolences 04:14, 8 February 2007 (UTC)