My friend, Wesley Chen, challenged me on facebook to present my top ten travel photograph favorites.  Since I am sharing these on facebook, one per day, I decided to share them here as well.  So, here they are, continuing on my top ten, in no particular order.

Number Two.

Taj Mahal, India, 2013.  After landing in New Delhi, one December midnight, we stayed there overnight. The next day, we hired a car to drive us to Agra on the Delhi-Agra interstate.  We visited the Taj Mahal twice.  On the day of our arrival, we went to Mehtab Bagh, which is a park just across the Yamuna river from the Taj Mahal and viewed it from there.  I was hoping to capture Taj and it’s reflection in the river.  No such luck.  The river was dry.  The following morning, we went to the Taj, very early in the morning.  It was foggy and that is when I made this photograph.  I went to the adjoining mosque and used one of its doorways to frame the Taj surrounded by fog.  Since it was early, the tourists had not poured in yet.  Tripods were not allowed (a very common rule in many of India’s popular tourist locations).  I mounted my camera/lens on a ball-head, resting on the floor, and adjusted its position/angle patiently, until the Taj and the doorway frame aligned correctly and the composition of the foreground floor and the Taj achieved the balance as seen here.  The effort was non-trivial and the result remains a favorite, continuing to satisfy me even today. 

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