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A blurred nighttime photograph of a yellow-orange backhoe loader moving across a dark, sandy ground. Its headlights and rear-facing chevron lights glow brightly, and a boom arm extends to the left. A lone figure in white is faintly visible inside the cab behind the windscreen, partly obscured by motion blur. The surrounding darkness and streaked light give the scene a motion-smeared, ceremonial-looking quality, though no ritual activity is clearly visible.

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Night photograph of a yellow backhoe loader working on bare, reddish earth in a rural site. The machine's headlights and red rear and side lights are lit, and an overhead wire crosses the dark sky. A driver sits in the cab, and a few dim green lights glow in the distance. Grass fringes the lower edge of the frame.2006-12-10Night photograph of a yellow-orange backhoe loader digging on bare reddish-brown earth beside a patch of grass at an ashram construction site. The machine's headlights and amber lamps are lit, and a single operator sits inside the enclosed cab. A thin wire runs across the dark sky above, with a faint bright orb near the top centre. No ritual or person is otherwise visible.2006-12-12October 25 20212021-10-25October 25 20212021-10-25October 25 20212021-10-25A photograph of earthmoving work on a dirt site. An orange backhoe loader dominates the frame, its bucket raised and digging into a mound of red-brown soil that sprays dust. Two people sit in the operator's cab, and a second yellow machine and a red dump truck are behind it. Green shrubs, a tall thin tree and distant rocky hills under a pale sky complete the rural construction setting.2006-11-16A yellow JCB backhoe loader works on a grassy verge beside a paved road, its bucket raised and digging arm extended after a storm. Bare, storm-damaged trees and palms stand behind it under a pale overcast sky. A concrete drain runs along the foreground. A lone man in a light shirt and dark lungi stands at the roadside on the right, and a motorcycle is parked beyond him. The scene shows cyclone clean-up work in the countryside of Pondicherry, with no visible ritual or a person presence.2012-01-062005 - View-of-Ananda-Sabha-ConstructionNovember 16 20062006-11-16A yellow JCB backhoe loader digs into reddish-brown earth on an unpaved site among green trees. Its bucket is lowered into a trench and a pile of excavated soil lies beside it. A driver sits in the open cab. Red and white striped concrete bollards stand at the left edge, and a small potted plant sits near the trench on the right.2012-10-17A yellow JCB 3DX backhoe loader works at a construction site beside a tall heap of pale sand. The machine has a glass cab with a sticker reading Sri Lakshmi Venkateswara Temple on its windshield and a person sits at the controls. Behind it stand tall coconut palms and a partially built concrete structure with exposed rebar on the left. The bright sunny setting suggests ongoing temple-area construction work.2006-12-12A yellow JCB backhoe loader with a dark-windowed cab and an arm raised at the left is digging up dust on a dirt construction site. A man in a white shirt sits at the operator's controls. Stacks of grey granite paving slabs are piled in the right foreground, with a heap of crushed stone behind them. A second yellow excavator, a red-brick building, palm and tree foliage, and white tent canopies appear in the background under a hazy sky.2016-11-24