Can the aspect ratio of an image be preserved when presenting it as the Image of the Day?

Looking at the image for today, it's a phone image (long and narrow), but it gets squished down into a landscape picture, making it look awful.

I'll admit I have an interest in this as I've also recently submitted an image that does not fit that ratio, but it seems like something that could be really easily fixed. The images are displayed fine in the gallery, but on the homepage they are really distorted.

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