A shot story on the Taj Mahal:

Fashion and commercial photographer Pravin Talan not only captures beautiful images, but has a way with words too. He recently shot images for his calendar at Taj Mahal with supermodels in outfits by Tarun Tahiliani, Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Anand Kabra, Anamika Khanna and Rohit Bal.
Pravin says, 'There is something truly magical about Taj and its timeless beauty that touches a chord with both love and loneliness inside you. Padma Sri Fazal Mohammad showed me an exquisite thread painting of Taj Mahal that he took five long years to complete and still rests in his small house at Lohamandi, Agra. He could never sell it, as the world didn’t offer the price for it that it deserved. Shooting at Taj would have remained a dream if I had not met Amrit Abhijat and Asim Arun, two officials at Agra who shared the same vision of presenting Taj Mahal in a new way to the world as part of Taj Mahotsav and then lucky part was to get the warm support from Archaeological Survey of India, which is currently celebrating its 150 years. This is a non-commercial project and images will be freely made available worldwide. ‘With Love From Taj’ is a multi-dimensional project aimed at creating memorabilia to promote arts, crafts, culture and tourism; bringing together on a single platform India’s leading artists and artisans who have in their works some element or inspiration drawn from Taj; creating awareness about, and promoting the exquisite cra.