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

 
Original - Farmer and two sons during a dust storm in Cimarron County, 1936. Picture by Arthur Rothstein, for the Farm Security Administration.
 
Not for voting - Alternative version without global & local histogram changes.
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
Thanks for the support! I uploaded a courtesy low res version here. -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 10:02, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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