Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Scorpion Pass

Scorpion Pass

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Original – The Scorpion Pass, a winding road in southern Israel

Reason

The image is the best photograph of the Scorpion Pass (Ma'aleh Akrabim) in southern Israel. It displays the pass in its entirety, but does not have any unnecessary details. In addition, the image was taken from the air and in reasonably high quality, creating a wow effect. It has primary encyclopedic value for Route 227 (Israel), but also for other articles (not necessarily used at this point), such as Operation Lot and Combat Engineering Corps. The image was also a finalist in the Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 competition.

Articles in which this image appears

Route 227 (Israel)

FP category for this image

Places

Creator

אילן ארד

• Support as nominator --Ynhockey ^(Talk) 15:11, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
• Comment. Can we get the image page translated into English - see Criterion 7? Not for nothing, but this is English WP not Commons, so it needs an English description (I don't even know what language it's in; Hebrew I guess). --jjron (talk) 15:42, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
  • I have translated the caption. —Ynhockey ^(Talk) 16:25, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
• Support Calhoun ^talk 16:37, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

  Comment User blocked as a sockpupet. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 02:41, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

• Support — ΛΧΣ²¹ 00:56, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
• Conditional Support - there is a spot on the top left. If it's removed, I'll support. Tomer T (talk) 10:10, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Since we're talking about a minor blemish and not color correction etc., I have taken the liberty to remove the spot without uploading the image under a different name. —Ynhockey ^(Talk) 21:36, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I removed the "conditional". Tomer T (talk) 11:09, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

• Support (agree with Tomer T about the spot) -- Colin°^Talk 18:18, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
• Support Oh for a high powered Rally Car and permission to close the road temporarily....... Nice picture, a little blurred in places but not on the actual road which is the main thing... Not going to get a better picture of the road in its entirity... gazhiley 10:56, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
• Support. Nice photograph with good framing. - Darwinek (talk) 13:29, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Promoted File:Ma'aleh Akrabim.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:14, 4 February 2013 (UTC)