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The more I look at this, the less I believe it's actually a photograph. It's incredible.
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Yup, pretty amazing.
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This is great. Endless perspective and the reflection(!!)
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I love this picture!
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It's beautiful!
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Honestly the best photo of Taj Mahal I have ever seen. Exquisite!!
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classic!!!
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whoa overnite compliments! thanks folks! yea i was standing in the water to get best angle and i had to wait long enough for the water to stay still and had one quick shot to take till the security escorted me out, just kidding! i didn't jump in the water, nor did security kick me out. though they did 'lose' my apple and stardust(bollywood) magazine in the storage area. and half hour later this area was packed with tourists. oh and check out my other photos in the series that are scattered on my flickr.
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wow! my question though is how early did you mean by early? I recently went to see the taj and was there at 8:30 and the crowd was large already!!
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no words...
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Splendid shot!
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Dreamy and beautiful !
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Shubh: i woke up at 4:30, took an auto rickshaw to the backside of the taj. my original plan was to capture it at dawn from the yamuna river side. as light approached, the fog in the winter morning with low visibility got me lost and plus i later found out that they had made this new wall with barbed wire fence which totally changed the landscape around the taj (this was done to 'beautify" the area for clinton's visit to india) anyways i gave up my photo expedition and decided to walk inside like all the regular tourists. this shot was probably around 6 am.
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Great 1 !!!!!!!
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Excellent composition & I love the colors!
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Wow, fantastic shot!
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Beauuutiful
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Awesome. Mythic. Austere. Worth the use of film.
An auspicious depiction worthy a Rajah.
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wow....magical photo.
i thought it is a painting at first.
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Perfect centrality!
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dreamy...
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phana-minal !
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Great shot !
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Great.!!!!
Have a nice day.: )
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Awesome capture! Worth getting up early!!
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wow great shot, I really like this one.
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Wow. Dreamy.
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Classic shot that works well with the cross processing.
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Stunning view and reflections!!! A gorgeous shot!!
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I think this is the best shot I have ever seen of the Taj Mahal!
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Excellent! I love the Taj!
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Dreamlike quality, excellent work.
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i've seen many shots of the taj mahal
this is among the best.
you rocked it
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Amazing...again, seems more real/imagined than any photo...
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Wow. How did you manage it? I've rarely seen the place this empty, and never when it was open for tourists- most publicity shots and postcards even seem to be taken while they closed it and cleared it out for special events. I mean, I can see that there are a couple of people there, but they totally vanish if you aren't looking for them. It's an absolutely lovely shot, just stunning, of one of my favorite places. Excellent job.
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dang amla, you're an overnight flickr rock star sensation. congrats. i didn't know you were talking about this photo.
it's almost unbelievable how gorgeous it is.
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omg. it's so unrealistic. but i love it. great photo.
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Great colors. Congratulations on a great capture!
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Stunning!
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Amal. this is so spectacular
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This is the best photograph of the Taj Mahal I HAVE EVER SEEN.
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wou! Unreal!
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Very well done!
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Wow!
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Hello,
I was wondering if we could use this beautiful image on Wikipedia. You would have to change the license to creative commons sharealike attribution. You would be given credit, of course, and a link would be placed to this site. Thanks for all your help.
-Nikhil
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great shot!
how many of you knew that Taj Mahal is a turkish structure made by the turkish king "Shah Jihan" for his wife?
sadly enough, the marbels of this beautiful structure are getting more and more yellowish each day although they were designed to stay white forever.
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Hi. I wanted to let you know that I'm using this photo, in accorance with the Creative Commons License, on my blog: weeklymobilegoodies.blogspot.com
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Hoping to be interested to all of you I am forwarding the "Fact About Tajmahal" forwarded to me by one of my friend, can't comment on or verify it's authenticity.
"Do you know your history The Moghul Emperor Shah Jahan in the memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal built the Taj Mahal.
It was built in 22 years (1631 to 1653) by 20,000 artisans brought to India from all over the world. Many people believe Ustad Isa of Iran designed it. This is what your guide probably told you if you ever visited the Taj Mahal. This is the story I read in my history book as a student in India.
No one has ever challenged it except Professor P.N. Oak, who believes the whole world has been duped. In his book - Taj Mahal: The True Story, Oak says the Taj Mahal is not Queen Mumtaz Mahal's tomb but an ancient Hindu temple palace of Lord Shiva (then known as Tejo Mahalaya). In the course of his research, Oak discovered the Shiva temple palace was usurped by Shah Jahan from then Maharaja of Jaipur, Jai Singh. Shah Jahan then remodeled the palace into his wife's memorial. In his own court chronicle, Badshahnama, Shah Jahan admits that an exceptionally beautiful grand mansion in Agra was taken from Jai Singh for Mumtaz's burial. The ex-Maharaja of Jaipur still retains in his secret collection two orders from Shah Jahan for surrendering the Taj building. Using captured temples and mansions, as a burial place for dead courtiers and royalty was a common practice among Muslim rulers. For example, Humayun, Akbar, Etmud-ud-Daula and Safdarjung are all buried in such mansions. Oak's inquiries begin with the name Taj Mahal. He says this term does not occur in any Moghul court papers or chronicles, even after ShahJahan's time. The term "Mahal" has never been used for a building in any of the Muslim countries, from Afghanistan to Algeria.
"The unusual explanation that the term Taj Mahal derives from Mumtaz Mahal is illogical in at least two respects. Firstly, her name was never Mumtaz Mahal but Mumtaz-ul-Zamani," he writes.
"Secondly, one cannot omit the first three letters 'Mum' from a woman's name to derive the remainder as the name for the building." The Taj Mahal, he claims, is a corrupt version of Tejo-Mahalaya, or the Shiva's Palace. Oak also says the love story of Mumtaz and Shah Jahan is a fairy tale created by court sycophants, blundering historians and sloppy archaeologists. Not a single royal chronicle of Shah Jahan's time corroborates the love story. Furthermore, Oak cites several documents suggesting the Taj Mahal predates Shah Jahan's era, and was a temple palace dedicated to Shiva worshipped by the Rajputs of Agra city.
For example, Professor Marvin Miller of New York took a few samples from the riverside doorway of the Taj. Carbon dating tests revealed that the door was 300 years older than Shah Jahan. European traveler Johan Albert Mandelslo, who visited Agra in 1638 (only seven years after Mumtaz's death), describes the life of the city in his memoirs. But he makes no reference to the Taj Mahal being built. The writings of Peter Mundy, an English visitor to Agra within a year of Mumtaz's death, also suggest the Taj was a noteworthy building long well before Shah Jahan's time.
Oak points out a number of design and architectural inconsistencies that support the belief of the Taj Mahal being a typical Hindu temple rather than a mausoleum. Many rooms in the Taj Mahal have remained sealed since Shah Jahan's time, and are still inaccessible to the public. Oak asserts they contain a headless statue of Shiva and other objects commonly used for worship rituals in Hindu temples.
Fearing political backlash, Indira Gandhi's government tried to have Oak's book withdrawn from the bookstores, and threatened the Indian publisher of the first edition with dire consequences. There is only one way to discredit or validate Oak's research. The current Indian government should open the sealed rooms of the Taj Mahal under UN supervision, and let international experts investigate.
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Hi, and thanks for licensing this image as CC-BY-SA! Your choice of a free license has allowed us to use this image in Wikimedia Commons, and to illustrate articles in 24+ different language versions of Wikipedia.
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sorry bout that. its been fixed. since this image was nominated for featured picture (the best on wiki),many users edited the info and also some added wrong info . thanks for ur concern. great image, its on many other language wikis as well.
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the colors make it feel like a painting. really great. Do you remember how old your ektachrome film was?
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hey montauk, you from oxnard? i used to live in ventura for many years, anyhow-i don't remember the date of the ektachrome. i threw in the expired detail, though not sure how much difference expired film makes, in this case the colors are due to cross processing.
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You've taken such a well-documented landmark and have managed to make it stunning despite all the times it's previously been viewed elsewhere.
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thanks akinremi, the funny thing is that it's such a conventional shot of the taj mahal. i find it quite boring actually, but i guess it's the time of day, film type that make it.
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Classic but beautiful ...
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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Amazing Structures, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
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beautiful picture. the building almost looks as if it's a ghost.
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Wow, this totally looks like a painting...incredible!
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amazing!!
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