Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Persépolis, Irán, 2016-09-24, DD 53.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
•  Info Bas-reliefs of palace guards at the monumental stairs of the Apadana in Persepolis, today Iran. The Apadana was the largest building on the Terrace at Persepolis and was most likely the main hall of the kings. The reliefs of the stairs show delegates of the 23 subject nations of the Persian Empire paying tribute to Darius I along with the here depicted guards. These reliefs are very valuable since the great detail of various of the delegates give insight into the costume and equipment of the various peoples of Persia in the 5th century BC. All by me, Poco² 13:04, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Poco² 13:04, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Basotxerri (talk) 16:11, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --XRay ^talk 19:15, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Jacopo Werther ^iγ∂ψ=mψ 19:48, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

* Oppose don't know... I find the composition difficult and would prefer other pics of your Persepolis series like -15 ... --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 04:01, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

•  Support cart was right, as always. --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 05:29, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

•  Support -- Sahand Ace 11:17, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose Sort of per Martin ... I think it would be stronger if we just saw those reliefs that were in focus. Daniel Case (talk) 02:41, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

  Along with a perspective effect, my intention hier was to represent a looong row of guards, as it was back then with a few close (and sharp) and the others less and less sharp as they are further Poco² 06:20, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

•  Support --Gnosis (talk) 18:11, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose See below. For this to work for me, I need to see the very end of the wall/procession (however awful it may look). That would give the photo, and me, some breathing space. Looking at it now, I feel like I'm pressed up against the wall with no way out. If I got "some light at the end of the row/wall" (something like this) I may reconsider. --cart-Talk 18:49, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

  cart: here would be the light at the end of the tunnel. Do you think that's indeed an improvement? To be honest I'm not sure which one is better Poco² 19:41, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

• Poco, I can't speak for the rest of the voters here, but that is exactly what I was looking for; a closure. The wall dissolving into a bright light in a clean way is much better than I could have hoped for. (It could just as easily have ended in a bunch of tourists or some garish souvenir stand.) In some strange way the light in that end also "brings out" the dark faces on the nearest reliefs, giving the whole scene better contrast. --cart-Talk 19:55, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

• Ok, cart, I've uploaded a version with a new crop showint the "light". Pinging the voters so far whether they want to keep things like they are or not: @Gnosis, Daniel Case, Martin Falbisoner, Jacopo Werther, and Basotxerri: and XRay Poco² 20:56, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

• Thank from me at least. :) Now the structure (and me) can breathe and I'll  Support it. --cart-Talk 21:03, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

• I  Support this version, too. Thanks, cart and Poco² -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:22, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --M★Zaplotnik ^(edits) 21:18, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 10 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Yann (talk) 21:21, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

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