Power Generation Darkens the Sun

Frank H. aus B., on March 15, 2009, said:

Noch nicht mal eine "Ehrenvolle Erwähnung", ein Witz!! Dafür ein "Best off" und einenn Y*. Gruß Frank

Matildes-morfar, on March 15, 2009, said:

What a nice picture. Contamination can obviously be nice ...

Greetings from Denmark

Draken, on March 15, 2009, said:

A powerful image, no doubt.

Congratulations

Edson Walter Cavalar…, on March 17, 2009, said:

Beautiful colours and contrast! I like your gallery, it's full of particular shots and tones of different colours...

Best regards from Brasil

Edson.

SPetzoldt, on March 17, 2009, said:

einfach stark beste grüße Passalora

Paul13, on March 17, 2009, said:

verry nice

christian.senger, on March 17, 2009, said:

Thanks for kindly commenting on my ATOMIC picture,

mustafadogan,

Markus Rogawski,

Fernando Lorenzo Yuste,

JuanA.Perez,

Pavel Janík,

Neuner Jürgen,

yemtaş,

Onkel Michel,

salehyar,

MarekGROM,

Jess.Froese,

Frank Hebestreit,

Matildes-morfar,

Draken,

Edson Walter Cavalari,

Passalora and

Paul13!

I'm also very happy with colors and contrast of this picture, and I was fully aware of having no chance to win the contest - my rocket picture already got an honorable mention in December and the rules state that every user might win only one prize, no upgrading or something else is possible.

But one question remains: This picture has almost 5000 views, why do I still have to zoom to a very low height in Google Earth to see it? It's surrounded by bunches of pictures with almost no comments and only a fraction of views, is something wrong with the Google Earth update mechanism?

Greetings from Ulm, Germany,

Christian

Bruce da Moose, on March 17, 2009, said:

Christian - I have a similar situation with a photo I have taken in Yellowstone National Park. Relatively high viewcount, low visibility.

Google Earth is only updated about once a month, and then it is done imperfectly - the last time it was updated, you probably had far fewer views than now.

The popularity of photo depends on many factors - viewcount, but also comments (of which you have many), favorite stars, and BEST OF nominations, among other things. All of these are factored into the popularity equation.

Next time GE updates at the end of March, check again. You may find it is larger :-).

~ da Moose

eran.melamed, on March 17, 2009, said:

air of our dark world wides future is so photogenic

eran,israel

christian.senger, on March 17, 2009, said:

Thanks for the nice explanation, Bruce da Moose! I was aware of the popularity being a function of viewcount, best of stars, and even age. I simply wondered because I've read somewhere in the forums that the last update was already end of February/beginning of March and the picture already had 3000+ views back then and it is still much "lower" than some around 20 views pictures. Guess I simply have to wait a little longer, maybe the end of March update will increase the pictures "height". I hold my thumbs for your mentioned Yellowstone pic! ;-)

Thanks for your visit, eran.melamed!

Greetings from Germany,

Christian

thor☼odin™, on March 17, 2009, said:

Impressing shot Christian a little too much doomsday actually but beautiful. I really wonder how i could have avoided seing this until now. Best wishes, Peter

UlliGö, on March 17, 2009, said:

Prima Foto... Klasse! Grüße aus Speyer Ulli

coasis, on March 17, 2009, said:

Good shot, but terrific view

Greetings from France

☺☺ My contest ☺☺

©Sabine, on March 17, 2009, said:

Absolut abgefahren, lieber Christian! Wahnsinn wie die Sonne den Dampf illuminiert!

Liebe Grüße, Sabine

Romão, on March 21, 2009, said:

What man can do against menkind...Terrible image.

Vladimir from Koltus…, on March 21, 2009, said:

It is amazing photo!! Greeting from Russia

tsingtao_hu, on March 21, 2009, said:

Very special picture ! Good !!! Greetings from China.

christian.senger, on March 30, 2009, said:

Thanks for visiting and commenting on my ATOMIC picture,

tsingtao_hu,

Vladimir from Koltushy,

Romao,

Sabine,

coasis,

UlliGö and

thor☼odin™!

Kind greetings from Norway,

Christian

sugarbag1, on March 30, 2009, said:

What can I say. Its all been said. Thanks.

bettybu, on March 30, 2009, said:

hola, cristian , bella foto, linda , ese conjunto de nubes con el sol escondido, detras, quedo muy bien tomada , esta linda de verdad, gracias y saludos