This is a shot from the most amazing Jain temples at Ranakpur in Rajasthan. I was in awe of the architecture and the intricate carvings inside the temple but what impressed me most is that there are 1444 pillars in the temple, all made of marble but no two of them are similar to each other.
Each and every pillar in this temple is unique in its shape, and the carvings on them. I looked at different ways of capturing these pillars and found this one corner where the sun light on the pillars formed a very interesting pattern on the floor.
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About Ranakpur
Ranakpur is a village located in Desuri tehsil near Sadri town in the Pali
district of Rajasthan in western India. It is located between Jodhpur
and Udaipur, in a valley on the western side of the Aravalli Range.
Ranakpur is easily accessed by road from Udaipur.
Ranakpur is widely known for its marble Jain temple, and for a much
older Sun Temple which lies opposite the former.
About Udaipur:
Udaipur also known as the City of Lakes, is a city, a Municipal Council and the administrative headquarters of the Udaipur district in the state of Rajasthan in western India. It is located 403 kilometres (250 mi) southwest of the state capital, Jaipur and 250 kilometres (155 mi) northeast from Ahmedabad. Udaipur was the historic capital of the former kingdom of Mewar in Rajputana Agency.
About Rajasthan
Rājasthān (the land of colours) the land of Rajasthanis, is the largest state
of the Republic of India by area. It encompasses most of the area of
the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert (Thar Desert), which has
an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border
with Pakistan. The state is bordered by Pakistan to the west, Gujarat
to the southwest, Madhya Pradesh to the southeast, Uttar Pradesh and
Haryana to the northeast and Punjab to the north. Rajasthan covers an
area of 132,150 sq mi or 342,239 km². The proportion of the state's
total area to the total area of the country is 10.41 per cent.
Jaipur is the capital and the largest city of the state. Geographical features include the Thar Desert along north-western Rajasthan and the termination of the Ghaggar River near the archaeological ruins at Kalibanga, which are the oldest in the subcontinent discovered so far.
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Photo--Graphy [deleted] 26 months ago | reply
Beau shoot
Viola Jasko Photography 26 months ago | reply
Love it! Beautiful!!!
Nancy Rose 26 months ago | reply
WHAT AN AMAZIONG PLACE and you really created a great image
sownak 26 months ago | reply
wow ... really nice ... and well deserved :)
santanu.dasgupta 26 months ago | reply
Kya baat hai....perfecto!
Ꭺɭwαעς 16 Иℴ√ємвǝɾ ( ♥ ) 26 months ago | reply
beautifully composed with lights and human recognition to play with the pillared setting
DeeMac 26 months ago | reply
Mesmerising, and your commentary is so interesting, too. This is what I love about flickr. We see worlds we'd never have visited but for the wonderful photographers who have captured images for us. Superb.
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Popeyee 26 months ago | reply
love the light ...well done in finding this angle. I also have a lot of pictures from this temple.(none uploaded yet). the little jain boy gave us a guided tour of the temple.
subhadeep mondal2010 26 months ago | reply
excellent light!!!!
Sandeep K Bhat 26 months ago | reply
Wonderful compo.
vasu.9 25 months ago | reply
Very Beautiful :)
girish_suryawanshi 25 months ago | reply
superb shot ... wonderful details
farbspiel 25 months ago | reply
The light in this shot is very cool! Great work, mate!
happy blackbird 24 months ago | reply
a very gorgeous image :-))))))
Phoe Chan 24 months ago | reply
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˙ ♪ Claudio Lara ✔ 24 months ago | reply
Wow!
This is a wonderful and really beautiful picture
Shangrilla2118 23 months ago | reply
Beautifull photo and wounderfull place, love to visit this place. ejaz.mian@yahoo.com
Captain Flam's 22 months ago | reply
That's a real PERFECT capture !!
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Colorado Sands 16 months ago | reply
Congratulations!!
AGrinberg 5 months ago | reply
I was there in November.
Absolutely incredible place.
You expressed it well with that golden light!