Photos from India--The Taj Mahal pt 3

The final installment to my trip photos. For those who've been faithfully looking at the various batches which come in, hope you've liked my small attempts at photography. For those who've just come on board, look at the first post... way down...

Took this picture from this angle to show how flat the surface is. The patterns you see are NOT paintings. Rather, they're semi-precious gems carved and encrusted into the white marble and filed flat! And when you shine a torch unto them, the gleam and glitter. And as you can see in one of them, people have tried to pry out these gems. tsk tsk.

What you see above is one whole slab of white marble and the flowers are all carved from the marble. The pictures below are basically the individual "buds" carved. Tried to take them from an angle which shows off the 3-D effect.

And that's a wrap :)