Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Drought.jpg

Drought

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**Original** – Dry earth in the Sonoran Desert, Sonora - Mexico.

Reason: Image is well focused, shows great amount of detail and has decent composition (as decent as can be for the subject of the image). Above all else, the EV of this image is very high.
Articles in which this image appears: Drought, Brown
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena/Others
Creator: Tomas Castelazo

~~Support as nominator~~ --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 02:23, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to withdraw my support as nominator, agreeing with the others that the image could be better and would be easy to replicate. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 15:05, 2 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Drought is by definition below average rainfall. I can't see any evidence that this shot, taken in a desert is indicative of that. Deserts naturally have low amounts of precipitation. JJ Harrison (talk) 03:05, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The drought article states: "A drought is an extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply..." Arguably, deserts have a deficiency in their water supply, and seeing as it can be a period of years, some deserts may qualify. Just some thoughts. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 16:06, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose It's soft, and is covered in light noise. The quality just isn't good enough IMO. Anyone could take a picture of this quality. Dusty777 02:49, 2 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - this is a fairly common sight in deserts, so it can be easily replicated. The perspective leaves much to be desired, and agreed about poor quality of light. Juliancolton (talk) 03:55, 2 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 00:32, 6 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

comment Interesting hos this picture (or a section of) was good enough to illustrate a National Geographic article. http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/08/28/how-can-a-drought-this-big-sneak-up-on-us/ --tomascastelazo (talk) 05:01, 26 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]