@Heliograph I think those are conifers, at the bottom of the picture, trimmed to look like bollard. I mostly take tree pictures though, as in this case, there's sometimes something else in the background.
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Congratulations on taking a pic of the Taj that isn't the same as the one every single other tourist takes!
It's a real effort to find a viewpoint that isn't the cliché-ed one; mine was this
@Paulos_the_fog @Heliograph And there's this one. That's my kid, he needed it to show to people at school who didn't believe I'd taken him to India.
@Paulos_the_fog @Heliograph Well, there's also this one. I then walked along the other side of the river and took a picture of it looking directly across the river, but that was in 1984 on slide film and I don't seem to have scanned that one.