Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sandstone Concretion in the wall at the beach of Año Nuevo State Reserve

Sandstone Concretion in the wall at the beach of Año Nuevo State Reserve.

 * Reason:In my opinion concretions are very interesting rocks. Their shapes are amazing and sometimes not well understood. The Earth is not the only place in our Solar System, where concretions are found. At least one other planet - Mars has them too Martian spherules. In my opinion the image has a good caption, which describes not only the image itself, but also the place, which I call an open air museum.
 * Proposed caption:Sandstone Concretion in the wall at the beach of Año Nuevo State Reserve. This concretion was too high in the wall to place a ruler, but I estimate it to be about 400 mm long. Please take a look at additional two images, which help you to see the settings of the image better: The first image shows the beach wall with two concretions and the second image is the wide angle image of the wall [[Image:Concretions.JPG|64px]] [[Image:Beach wall with concretions.JPG|64px]] This same wall has lots of Fossils inclusions: [[Image:Fossils in a beach wall.JPG|64px]] [[Image:Beach wall with fossil shells.jpg|64px]]. The Concretions often get weathered out from the wall. At the next image you could see few spheres Concretions, which were found in a close proximity. [[Image:Sscan.JPG|64px]]
 * Articles this image appears in:Concretion
 * Creator:Mbz1

-- Chris B  •  talk  14:50, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Support as nominator Mbz1 19:57, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * This is a useful picture for the article, but it does not stand out (only by the size of the thumbnail). What are your reasons for nominating, what makes this picture one of wikipedias best? --Dschwen 20:23, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the comment, Dschwen. I've stated my reasons already. Here are few more: In my opinion the image is not only useful for the article, but also very useful for education because it shows an interesting concretion in its natural setting. In my opinion each and every image, which adds a value to an article could be nominated for FP. I 'm not sure that an image should "stand out" to be nominated for FP. At least I have not found anything about this in Featured picture criteria. As a matter of fact, when Featured picture criteria is talking about best pictures, it states: "It is a photograph, diagram, image or animation which is among the best examples of a given subject that the encyclopedia has to offer." I believe the nominated image is the best example of the given subject .In my opinion it meets this and other criterias as well. I hope I answered your question. Please feel free to ask me more. --Mbz1 23:55, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I withdraw my nomination--Mbz1 03:15, 8 October 2007 (UTC)