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A night photograph of a procession at a temple, shot in low light. Many people in white clothing crowd around a decorated palanquin on the right, topped with a canopy and a striped red, yellow and white arch of garlands. A woman in white holds a tray at the palanquin's edge. A devotee in an orange shawl carries a flaming oil lamp or aarti flame at the centre. A small child in an orange outfit reaches toward the procession. Lamps glow along a metal fence and a pole-mounted orange banner is visible at upper left. Physical people are counted in the scene: roughly two dozen are visible, with others partly in shadow.

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