Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Highway 401 Miss

Highway 401 in Mississauga, Ontario[edit]

This article appears in Highway 401 (Ontario), and is an excellent example of how busy Highway 401 is, even in Mississauga. It also is a great example of showing what an Express-collector system is. The image was uploaded by Haljackey, and is Copyright-free.

The image is used in the following articles: Highway 401 (Ontario), local-express lanes. A shorter caption can be found below:

"Highway 401's Express-Collector system of four carriageways during heavy rush hour traffic, in Mississauga, Ontario. Location is above the Dixie Road interchange, looking east towards Downtown Toronto. Pearson Airport in the top left, and the Highway 427 interchange in the distance, with Downtown near the top."

I am nominating this image for the peer review (and hopefully Wikipedia:Featured Pictures status) for the following reasons:

It is easy to see, and is instantly identifiable (as Highway 401 has four carriage-ways)
It is an excellent example of rush hour traffic on a congested urban freeway
It is a perfect example of what an Express-Collector system is and how it functions
It is a very large image
This image is taken from a traffic helicopter, and therefore is of high technical quality
This image is of high resolution
The image adds volumes to the article by showing the readers what the freeway is like in real life
It is a neutral image
This image is not digitally manipulated in any way, to my knowledge
The Basketweaves and Variable message signs are clearly visible

Nominated by: RingtailedFox • Talk • Stalk 00:14, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

It is certainly encyclopedic, and it does look like it makes a good contribution to several articles. However, the technical quality is not up to the current featured picture standards. The entire image, especially the far background, is overexposed. It just slips by the resolution requirements, and for images that are just big enough, they need to be very sharp throughout. This image is fairly grainy; look at the fields to the left of the highway to see what I mean. Enuja (talk) 01:16, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Seconder:

Note: nominated on featured picture candidates by User:RingtailedFox on October 23rd. Enuja (talk) 03:18, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]