Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Salt mounds, Salar de Uyuni

Salt mounds, Salar de Uyuni

 * Reason:Excellent composition, great technical quality under hard conditions, highly encyclopedic since it's used in three articles, plus it's evocative of Richard Misrach's desert cantos. Proposed extended caption:
 * Salt mounds in Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia. The Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat, ca. 25 times as large as the Bonneville Salt Flats. It's the remnant of a prehistoric lake surrounded by mountains without drainage outlets. Salt is harvested in the traditional method: the salt is scraped into small mounds for water evaporation and easier transportation, dried over fire, and finally enriched with iodine.


 * Articles this image appears in:Sodium chloride, Salar de Uyuni, Edible salt
 * Creator:Lucag on Commons

--Terence 04:20, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Support as nominator &mdash; trialsanderrors 23:58, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Great pic.--HereToHelp 02:01, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Support. Very cool. Kla'quot 04:42, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Support. Great picture--User:Ahadland1234 13:30, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 *  Support Awesome pic. An edit to the caption would make this a better picture. As much as I like this, there really isn't a wow factor to this pic. One of the best candidates for FP, though!--Gabycs 00:14, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Support I'm a little iffy about the graininess in the sky, but, overall, it's beautiful and very explanatory. Enuja 02:14, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Support, though the background is a bit grainy. Michaelas10Respect my authoritah 20:41, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Support, but graininess in the background is somewhat of concern to me... —dima/talk/ 18:17, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak support It is a nice picture, but it is grainy. Althepal 21:23, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The resolution of any one salt mound is very low - zooming in produces harsh artifacts. Pstuart84 Talk 22:37, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * The Images should be judged at 100% and I am hard pressed finding artifacts at normal resolution. Obviously if you zoom in far enough you'll see tons of huge square 'artifacts'... Pixles. -Fcb981 15:30, 7 April 2007 (UTC)