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Night photograph at a temple courtyard lit with string lights, where a bearded man with long swept-back hair, wearing a rust-red dhoti and shawl, a white floral garland with red flowers, gold bangles and a white forehead mark, stands with palms pressed together and face lifted in devotion beside a stone platform. Behind him, a crowd of devotees watches, including a man in an orange robe with rudraksha beads, a person in an orange sari with a brass pot, and men in green shirts; several in the crowd photograph with cameras and phones. A brightly lit gopuram-style structure and scaffolding frame the background. Aside from the face-up devotee, the image shows temple worship at night.

Night photograph at a temple with a crowd. A man in a rust-red dhoti and shawl, with a long dark beard, long hair swept back and a white garland of jasmine and pink flowers around his neck, stands with palms pressed together and face lifted upward toward the temple tower. Gold bangles are on his arms. Beside him an attendant in an orange-saffron robe with a rudraksha-style mala holds a brass kalasha vessel. Behind them devotees in white, green and orange clothes stand, some holding mobile phones, and a photographer with a DSLR camera leans over a stone structure in the foreground. Strings of green, red and white lights decorate the temple walls, and a pale stone platform with carved edges is at the left.

Night photograph at a temple courtyard lit with strings of red, green and white lights, with a gopuram tower in the background. In the foreground a man with long hair and a beard, wearing a rust-red dhoti and shawl with a white and red flower garland, stands with palms pressed together in namaskar, looking upward in devotion beside a stone structure with a lit oil lamp at its base. Around him a crowd watches, including a man in an orange robe with rudraksha beads, a man in a green shirt, a woman in orange, and several photographers with cameras and phones raised.

February 06 2017

February 06 2017

Night photograph outside a South Indian temple at Tiruvannamalai, with a lit gopuram tower and a decorated shrine entrance strung with blue and pink lights. In the centre, a man in a dark maroon dhoti and a white floral garland points upward while people gather around him. Nearby a man in saffron-orange robes with a mala holds a flower bundle, and a uniformed police officer in khaki stands beside them. On the left, men in white dhotis with gold-bordered shawls and gold necklaces stand among others in teal and white shirts. A photographer with a camera is visible at the right edge. Several men in orange cloth, white dhotis and rudraksha malas are part of the crowd of about twenty people.

December 31 2015

A photograph inside a tented pavilion with a red-and-gold patterned canopy. A man with long swept-back dark hair, a white forehead mark, a white and red flower garland and an orange-brown robe stands at right with his arms raised toward a floral-patterned wall hanging. Beside him a shaven-headed man in orange-brown robes wears a long gold-bead necklace and a pendant and gestures with open hands. At left a man in an orange head wrap holds a large camera to his face, and a man in white clothing stands at the edge of the frame. Several other robed men in orange and saffron stand in the background.

February 07 2016

Night ceremony on a red brick temple-style staircase lit by bright floodlights, with strings of colourful fairy lights and red flags behind. A central elderly man with long swept-back white hair, a rudraksha-style bead mala and a gold-bordered orange-red shawl over orange-red robes is being steadied by two men in saffron-orange dhotis and shawls, one bare-chested with a bead mala. Several figures in white dhotis stand nearby, and brass or copper vessels and lamps line the steps on the right.

December 04 2006 - Karthikai Deepam, Tiruvannamalai

Night procession outdoors beneath a large banyan tree at a temple-like ashram setting. A central figure in a rust-red dhoti and shawl wears a red-and-white flower garland, a gold necklace and gold armband, and smiles while standing barefoot on a white ritual cloth. A man in orange robes holds a silver platter of offerings, and a figure in orange holds a white-tipped ceremonial item. Behind them a parasol-like canopy stands, a cameraman in a blue shirt films, and a standing figure in orange with a shaved head and white forehead band presses palms together in namaste. Orange-robed attendants with white forehead bands line the background, and a purple cloth hangs with floral garlands on the left.