Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Farmer and sons in dust storm, Cimarron County

Reason: Classic picture: a farmer and his two sons walking in the face of a dust storm during the Dust Bowl in Cimarron County, OK. Picture taken in 1936 by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration.

This was a difficult one. Lots of dust, lots of pretty annoying small scratches. It would've been easy to just take a 100 pixel clone stamp to the sky or the ground but I didn't: it's an iconic image, so you want to do as little as possible to it. It would also have been easy to just up the contrast, but it's a dust storm so that's not really what you want. The edit I'm proposing is one where I did jiggle the histogram just a bit and (more importantly) where I removed some vignetting (+the usual: dust, scratches, stains).
Articles this image appears in: Farm Security Administration, Cimarron County, Dust Bowl
Creator: Arthur Rothstein, restored by Michel Vuijlsteke

Support as nominator --Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 20:36, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support iconic photo; highly encyclopedic and well restored. Durova^Charge! 22:59, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Iconic photo. Fine restoration. --KP Botany (talk) 23:18, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Durova. Fletcher (talk) 02:07, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support per above. Mostlyharmless (talk) 00:51, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support per above, though I personally prefer the 'colouring' in the alt version. Also a 'courtesy version' of more reasonable filesize as Durova provides would be helpful. --jjron (talk) 01:57, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the support! I uploaded a courtesy low res version here. -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 10:02, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support good historical value. TomStar81 (Talk) 22:29, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Farmer walking in dust storm Cimarron County Oklahoma2.jpg MER-C 10:32, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]