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Wide daytime photograph of the Maha Kumbh Mela camp-city beside a narrow canal. Rows of large yellow, beige and white tents and smaller blue and purple tents fill the flat ground, with clothing hung on lines between them. A steel railway bridge and a concrete road bridge cross the hazy sky in the background, with a tall utility pole and power lines at left. The scene is an open tent encampment with no visible ritual activity or identifiable people in the foreground.

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February 10 20132013-02-10February 10 20132013-02-10Aerial view of a dense camp city at the Kumbh Mela, with rows of grey and white tents packed along a riverbank in hazy light. Many tents have red, yellow, blue and green canvas tops, and small figures move between them along dirt paths. A long concrete bridge with many pillars crosses the background, and a red temple-like structure stands at right. Power lines run across the foreground above the river water.2013-02-10February 10 20132013-02-10February 10 20132013-02-10February 10 20132013-02-10February 10 20132013-02-10Wide elevated photograph of the Maha Kumbh Mela camp-city at Prayagraj, dense rows of white, yellow, blue and multicoloured tents stretch toward a long concrete pontoon bridge with many pillars across the hazy sky. Crowds of pilgrims in saris and dhotis walk along dirt lanes beside a narrow channel, a yellow bus and a loaded truck with a yellow tarpaulin stand near the foreground, and a small blue tarp shelter sits on the slope. No individual figure is clearly identifiable as a person.2013-02-10A wide outdoor photograph of the Kumbh Mela camp area beside a narrow channel of greenish water, with a long elevated concrete bridge spanning the background. Dirt embankment in the foreground strewn with rubbish, plastic bags and a discarded flip-flop. Across the channel, a dense cluster of white and yellow tents, a bus, a white car and many tiny distant figures moving among stalls and flags. Hazy pale sky. No identifiable individual is in close view, so no a person candidate is present.2013-02-10February 10 20132013-02-10February 10 20132013-02-10February 10 20132013-02-10