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Taj Mahal before a storm
Posted by Richard Irwin (Belper, United Kingdom) on 10 April 2007 in Architecture and Portfolio.
This image was taken some time ago. It was in the weeks leading up to the monsoon, and Agra was baking in 48C of heat and 90% humidity. I was visiting the Taj Mahal just as the storm arrived.
The swealtering stillness was broken by the appearance of a hot wind which rustled the reed fences in the melon fields by the River Jamuna. The rain came just after, a welcome from the terrible heat.
In the shot, I used a slow shutter speed to capture the movement, and whilst I was still in the hot wind, cooling rain had reached the Taj Mahal to the right
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