Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Earth

"Earthrise" on the moon

**Original** - A image of the Earth rising as seen on the moon, taken by Apollo 8

Reason: This is an excellent image, with high resolution, and good technical quality, and is also high in enecyclopediac value. It is also a featured picture on Wikimedia commons
Articles this image appears in: Earth, Apollo 8
Creator: Bill Anders

Support as nominator Juliancolton ^{The storm still blows...} 17:18, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I'm not 100% sure, but wasn't the original in color? --Janke | Talk 18:35, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't believe so, but I will check for you. Juliancolton ^{The storm still blows...} 18:43, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am not sure if the original was in color, but our current FP of the subject is. This is it here. TomStar81 (Talk) 20:24, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That one is very nice. This one is different, though, and would be fine as an FP. Juliancolton ^{The storm still blows...} 20:27, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Er, not really; it's in B&W for no reason and shows substantially the same kind of image as an existing FP that's in colour. I guess the position of the earth is more evocative in your nom, but not to a staggering degree. Oppose. Matt Deres (talk) 23:07, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Previously nominated by me once already and it was at that time that the color one was favored. howcheng {chat} 06:42, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thank you for telling me. However, I fell this one is different, and could easily stand alone as its own FP. Juliancolton ^{The storm still blows...} 14:15, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support A black and white picture like this makes me understand when we went to space/the moon. It is also the first picture of the moon landscape's contour that I have seen. Xilliah (talk) 10:23, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just curious, but why does a B&W picture make you understand why we went to the moon? Does the colour picture obscure that understanding or fail somehow? I've got to admit I don't understand your reasoning on this. Matt Deres (talk) 21:20, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

He actually says it makes him understand when we went to the moon, not why. The only thing I can think is that when we went there there was no such thing as colour?? :-) --jjron (talk) 08:23, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 09:29, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]