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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!!
Nitin, Sydney
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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.
Well done!
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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 !
Seen on the explore page.
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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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borishnokov [deleted] says:
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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nice work! well done!
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