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A photograph looking up at a large, gnarled banyan tree with thick grey aerial roots and a dense canopy of dark green leaves, framing a tall white gopuram tower covered in carved sculptures of deities and figures against a pale blue sky. Pink-flowered shrubs and foliage fill the lower left. No people are visible.

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A photograph framed by the thick, pale grey trunks of a large banyan tree, looking through a gap between them toward a tall white temple gopuram covered in carved sculptures and tiers of small shrines. Green leaves hang into the upper part of the frame against a pale blue sky. No people are visible in the scene.Photograph framed by the thick pale trunks of a large banyan tree, looking up through an arch of trunks toward a tall whitewashed temple gopuram covered in tiered rows of carved sculptures and niches. Green leaves hang across the upper frame, and pink flowering shrubs grow at the lower edge near the temple base against a pale blue sky. No people are visible.September 4 1989 - earliest ever recorded public functionSeptember 4 1989 - earliest ever recorded public functionA photograph taken between two large, gnarled banyan tree trunks, framing a view of a white temple gopuram tower with carved sculptural tiers and small finials against a pale blue sky. No people are visible in the frame. The foreground trunks are blurred, with the textured bark dominating the left and right edges.September 4 1989 - earliest ever recorded public functionSeptember 4 1989 - earliest ever recorded public functionPhotograph looking up from below at a large banyan tree whose dark leaves and thick trunk frame the left side. Behind the branches rises a tall, tiered gopuram of pale stone, carved with many niches, figures and small domed shrine tops, set against a clear pale blue sky with a faint moon. A smaller carved shrine peak appears at the lower right edge. No people are visible in the scene.July 08 20122012-07-08Photograph looking up at a tall, tiered gopuram temple tower in Tiruvannamalai, its pale stone surface densely carved with tiers of sculpted deity figures and niches. Green leaves of a tree frame the upper left and right, and a low stone compound wall runs along the lower left. Bushes and small trees fill the foreground. No people are visible.2012-07-08A photograph looking up at a tall, tiered white gopuram of a South Indian temple, its surface densely carved with rows of sculpted deities, figures and niches under a pale blue sky. A large tree trunk and leafy branches frame the upper left and right edges, and pink-flowered shrubs grow in the foreground. No people are visible. The tower is the temple gateway tower of the Arunachaleswara temple in Tiruvannamalai.September 4 1989 - earliest ever recorded public function