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Night photograph of a brightly illuminated South Indian temple gopuram, its tiers covered with painted sculptures in red, green, blue and yellow and strung with small lights. A white temple wall and string lights run along the roofline. A small shrine with a red-and-orange flag stands at the lower left, and a loudspeaker is mounted on the wall. No people are visible; the scene is a temple exterior at night.

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A night photograph of a tall, ornately sculpted South Indian temple gopuram (tower) rising in tiers, its surfaces covered with painted figures and deity sculptures in teal, blue, green and orange tones. Its lower portion is lit by a warm lamp, with striped red-and-white pillars at the entrance. On the left, stone pillars and a flat-roofed colonnade with a lamp sit in shadow. No people are visible.2007-08-17February 17 20152015-02-17Night photograph of a towering sculpted gopuram of the Arunachaleshwara Temple at Tiruvannamalai, its tiered stone face densely carved with figures and lit by strings of warm lamps tracing its edges and roofline. A bright floodlight glows at the lower left near a cable, and the dark sky surrounds the tower. No people are visible in the scene; the lamps are electric string lights, not oil lamps.2006-12-04September 23 20122012-09-23 +1 copiesNight photograph of a tall stone temple wall at the top edge of the frame, lined with rows of small lamps in red, yellow and white light strings. Carved sculptural figures in painted colours crown the gopuram-style parapet, with a street lamp glowing at the left. No people are visible in the scene. The dark sky frames the illuminated temple wall during the festival lighting.2006-12-04A night photograph of an illuminated tall temple-style chariot or ratha with a pyramidal tiered top, strung with red, yellow and green lights and decorated with garlands and lit lamps. Multicoloured fairy lights trail across the dark background to the right and left, and a small lit structure stands beside the chariot. Dark silhouettes of a few distant figures appear at the bottom edge. A bird logo appears in the upper left corner.2015-02-19February 06 20172017-02-06 +1 copiesAugust 17 20072007-08-17Dusk photograph of a white temple roofline outlined in strings of multicoloured fairy lights, red, orange, blue and white, against a deep blue evening sky. Green leaf garlands hang along the pillars of an open front pavilion, where lamps glow inside. A tall metal scaffolding frame stands at the left edge. A pink boundary wall runs across the bottom. No people are visible.2006-09-29Night photograph of a illuminated Hindu temple gopuram at Tiruvannamalai, its tiered tower outlined in white and yellow lights with red and gold bunting strung across the street. Dense crowds of devotees stand in the foreground, partly visible with heads cut off by the frame. Strings of lamps decorate nearby shop fronts and a pavilion on the left. No identifiable individual is clearly shown, and no ritual action is clearly visible.2006-12-04Night photograph of a temple gopuram (tower) decorated with strings of small electric lights outlining its tiers, with a bright light at the top. Below, a covered colonnade with pillars runs across the frame, and a lit lamp or light sits at the base of the tower. A garlanded deity murti or ornamented structure is partly visible in the foreground. A street lamp glows at the left edge, and a few blurred figures stand at the lower left railing. The image is dark and somewhat blurred overall.2006-12-04September 18 20152015-09-18