Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Painted Desert

Original - The Painted Desert in Petrified Forest National Park and the Navajo Nation, Arizona. Air photo by Doc Searls, 2007

Reason: A wonderfully colorful air photo of the Painted Desert. By memory, this really is what the Painted Desert looks like, out the airliner window, on a clear day (likely after a rain). The speckles on the mesa-top are vegetation, probably dwarf junipers. Amazingly good quality, for shooting through a triple-pane plastic airliner window. This is the best air photo I've seen of the Painted Desert.
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Support as nominator --Pete Tillman (talk) 05:13, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Poor contrast, white balance needs adjustment, not particularly sharp, blown highlights, also seems to be colour fringing (probably as a result of the window) Noodle snacks (talk) 08:29, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Noodle snacks. Mostlyharmless (talk) 10:11, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Mostly per Noodle snacks, focus is also lacking. --Meld shal 42? 12:55, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Quite poor contrast. Spencer^T♦^C 14:23, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose sorry. Intothewoods29 (talk) 22:10, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted . --John254 01:14, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]