Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Departure Herald, Xuande Era Panoramic Painting

Departure Herald, Jiajing Era Panoramic Painting

 * Reason:HOLY SHIT, BATMAN! Pardon my French, good sirs, but this painting is simply bad ass to the max. It reminds me of these two featured pictures of Chinese panoramas here and here. This Ming Dynasty panoramic Chinese painting shows the Xuande Emperor's (r. 1425-1435 AD) very lavish procession through the countryside, complete with armed cavalry, tall military banners, large sedan chairs being carried by teams of men, and gigantic carriages driven by teams of elephants and horses. It is 24,894 × 870 pixels in size, for those who like incredibly lengthy images.
 * Articles this image appears in:Xuande Emperor, Ming Dynasty Tombs
 * Creator:An anonymous Chinese painter(s) of the Ming Dynasty period

Sorry to say, Spencer is quite right about the stitching errors. That'll teach me to review noms after bedtime :o/ For those interested, it seems to involve both sides of a single frame about 1600px from the right. A real shame as that's just carelessness on the part of the archivist and would be easy to fix from the original files. --mikaultalk 23:29, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Support as nominator -- Pericles of Athens  Talk 10:08, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Support Superb. I'd love to see this in more detail but there are understandable limitations here. A shame there are some breaks in the silk but this is a very good digitisation. Great find. --mikaultalk 11:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose Obvious stitching errors, and a strange line of pixels running along the top.  Spencer T♦ Nominate! 17:34, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
 * In addition, current usage (how small it is) in Xuande Emperor, where it has the most EV, is really not-so-good. Perhaps scrolling and a larger height would be better?  Spencer T♦ Nominate! 17:36, 25 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I have fixed the issue of it being too small in the Xuande Emperor article by giving it its own section where it can be displayed as a larger image. As for stitching errors and the line of pixels at the top, let me see what I can do. I will contact someone who is good with image manipulation.-- Pericles of Athens  Talk 17:51, 25 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment I removed the brown line per request. I'm not too sure that the vertical lines are stitching errors, they might as well be in the original painting, depending on the material and how it was stored. ~ trialsanderrors (talk) 11:06, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you Trialsanderrors! You may have saved this nomination (yet again).-- Pericles of Athens  Talk 11:27, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Some of the vertical lines are indeed stitching errors. If you look closely, in one case, the branches of a tree do not line up correctly.  Spencer T♦ Nominate! 14:57, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Well that sucks. Too bad. It's a beautiful painting.-- Pericles of Athens  Talk 15:07, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

-- wade ster 16  18:37, 2 July 2009 (UTC)