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Night photograph of a Karthikai Deepam lamp ritual at an ashram courtyard. A circular tiered platform is lit with many oil lamps, and a tall pole stands beside it. Several people in light-coloured clothing hold up lit torches or lamps, including a woman in a sari at left and a figure in white at centre-right. Rows of small oil lamps line a long low building and the wall behind, and a crowd of seated devotees sits in shadow at left. No clearly visible a person candidate is present.

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December 11 20092009-12-11December 11 20082008-12-11December 11 20082008-12-11December 11 20082008-12-11December 11 20082008-12-11 +1 copiesNight photograph of a Karthikai Deepam lamp ritual in an outdoor courtyard. A ring of lit oil lamps surrounds a circular stone platform in the foreground. A man in white clothes holds a lit lamp aloft near a wooden pole, while another figure in white stands at right beside a tall lamp post. Strings of small lamps glow along a dark roofline behind them, and potted plants sit at the right edge. A few other people are partly visible in the dark at left and centre.2008-12-11December 11 20082008-12-11Night photograph of a Karthikai Deepam lamp ceremony in an outdoor courtyard. Rows of small oil lamps glow along the ground and walls. In the centre, a tiered circular platform is ringed with lit lamps. Three men in light white kurtas and dhotis stand at the platform, holding lit oil lamps and flames aloft in ritual gesture. A man in a white shirt and cloth sits in the background among the lamps. Potted plants and a dark tree stand at the right edge. A tall lamp post with a bright light rises at centre. The scene is dim and warm, lit mainly by flames and lamps.2008-12-11December 11 20082008-12-11December 11 20082008-12-11Night photograph of an outdoor Karthikai Deepam lamp ritual at an ashram. A figure in white robes stands on a raised platform holding a lit lamp, with flames rising from a circular arrangement of oil lamps set on a low stone base. A tall figure in a long light garment stands in the foreground beside a tall pole. Small lamps glow along a planter and a stone ledge, and a row of seated devotees in white clothing sits in the darkness at right. A low white building and a flagpole appear in the background. The scene is lit almost entirely by the flames.2008-12-11December 11 20082008-12-11