Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Railroad in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania

Railroad in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 25 Dec 2014 at 22:58:44 (UTC)

Reason: A recently promoted QI that does a very good job of illustrating a vanishing point in real life (as opposed to being a diagram or a painting).
Articles in which this image appears: Vanishing point, Lewis Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Others
Creator: Jakec

Support as nominator – --Jakob (talk) 22:58, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Question Is this picture a vanishing point? The tracks don't ever reach a point as the trees obscure the point where they would "meet"... As far as my eyes can see anyways... Or am I misunderstanding this? gazhiley 14:07, 13 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Oppose On the basis of the below conversation, I think we can do better in terms of vanashing points. All you need is a clear horizon and a straight line of whatever you are using to visualise the phenomenon (I would imagine a stretch of rail track accross the Nullabor_Plain would manage this. This picture, however visually appealing, does not. gazhiley 10:01, 15 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose agree with above. It doesn't actually show a vanishing point. it appears to veer right before reaching a point. Mattximus (talk) 16:51, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Gazhiley and Mattximus: Isn't a true vanishing point impossible in the physical world? I think this is about as close as one can realistically hope to get. --Jakob (talk) 17:07, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That was my initial thought too, and of course you are correct that a true point is impossible in the real world. However, it seems to me, when you zoom in to the point of convergence, that this picture is actually a way short of what one could realistically hope for, so I think the objection is valid. 86.152.160.175 (talk) 03:16, 15 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose — Even at this resolution one can see the gap between "converging" tracks. Sca (talk) 17:34, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:19, 25 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]