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Eternal Love by `gilad:icongilad:

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Let the splendor of the diamond, pearl and ruby vanish like the magic shimmer of the rainbow. Only let this one teardrop, the Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time...

(Poet Rabindranath Tagore)


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Taj Mahal stands on the bank of River Yamuna. It was built by Shah Jahan (1592-1666), the fifth Mughal emperor of India (1628-58).
It was build in 1631 in memory of his second wife, Mumtaz Mahal, a Muslim Persian princess. She died while accompanying her husband in Burhanpur in a campaign to crush a rebellion after giving birth to their 14th child. The death so crushed the emperor that all his hair and beard were said to have grown snow white in a few months.
Construction began in 1631 and was completed in 22 years. Twenty thousand people were deployed to work on it. The material was brought in from all over India and central Asia and it took a fleet of 1000 elephants to transport it to the site. It was designed by the Iranian architect Istad Usa and it is best appreciated when the architecture and its adornments are linked to the passion that inspired it. It is a "symbol of eternal love".

An architectural masterpiece, that has been photographed millions of times.
It’s considered to be one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
It’s my first time seeing it, and I felt like I have to try something different, something I never seen before.
I hope you like to see this place in Infra Red. A little different I hope…

Nikon D70,
Nikon AF-S DX 18-70m,
Hoya 72R Infra Red filter


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To learn more about Infra red photography, read my Journal here => [link]

Yours, G

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~QueenIndra Mar 3, 2005, 1:19:26 AM
very very lovely

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*samurai23 Mar 3, 2005, 1:21:51 AM
Stunning! :D
....As all your work tends to be.

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~s1lver Mar 3, 2005, 1:22:33 AM
That is a brilliant shot, and im so glad you didnt opt for the completly symmetrical composition! I love this shot! Defntly a Fav.
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~STIMUL4NT Mar 3, 2005, 1:26:50 AM
Love the lighting, you are lucky to have been there and captured this beautiful photo. How recently did you go?
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~sjthakkar Mar 3, 2005, 1:27:06 AM
Extremely fantastic....I am from India, and ironically, I've never been to Agra or seen the wonderful tomb before....but I've grown with such stories of love, art and devotion, and it felt very close when I saw this photograph by you.

I think having the infra-red was a quite novel picture......it provides a little play with the lighting - the sky seeming darker and the light seeming to be in the front and yet all the shadows being downwards! Also this all adds awe, unrealness to the whole picture....Oh did I also mention, very different way of cropping the picture (all my lifetime I've always seen pictures of the Taj aligned in the center!)

I'll stop writing and fav it now :D :clap: keep up the good work!
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~xtreamegfx Mar 3, 2005, 1:29:15 AM
very nice, good composition :)

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~x-3xile-x Mar 3, 2005, 1:34:21 AM
really nice...picture and effect with the infra-red

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~yola-bear Mar 3, 2005, 1:35:33 AM
how did u get such a crisp photo amongst the smog? it's excellent, i'm going to india soon, hope to get shots half this good :)
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~ArchY-IF Mar 3, 2005, 1:38:28 AM
impressive color... nice one !

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~Tangens-HR Mar 3, 2005, 1:44:56 AM
I'm a fan of IR photography, so naturally I like this :)

Natural landscapes look magical when shot in IR, do you have some of those?

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Feb 17, 2005, 10:03:44 AM

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