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A wide river view of a large crowd gathered along a riverbank at a hazy, overcast Kumbh Mela-style bathing ghat. Many people are standing in dense rows near the water's edge, with a line of small wooden boats moored along the shoreline. Tall bamboo poles with flags and lights stand across the camp, and a white temple-like structure with a spire is visible on the left.

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February 05 20132013-02-05Wide hazy photograph of a riverbank crowd at a large Kumbh-style pilgrimage site. A dense line of people in colourful saris, dhotis and orange clothing stands along the water's edge beside several wooden boats moored at the bank. Tall lamp posts, bamboo poles with small red and orange flags, and temporary stalls and signboards fill the sandy ground behind them, with a pair of tall telecom towers and tree line on the horizon. The foreground is open grey river water.2013-02-05February 05 20132013-02-05Photograph of a wide, hazy river surface with choppy grey-blue water in the foreground. Across the middle distance, a line of moored wooden boats and small vessels sits along a distant sandy bank under a pale, overcast sky. No people are visible in the scene.2015-10-02A hazy wide view across a shallow, muddy river toward a distant riverbank crowded with many tents, temporary structures and pale domed buildings under a grey sky. In the foreground, two weathered wooden poles frame the water. A single white egret wades in the shallows on the right, and a few small orange floating objects dot the water. The scene is a riverside encampment with no clearly visible people in the foreground.2013-02-05Hazy river scene at the Allahabad Kumbh Mela, with a crowd of people gathered on a sandy embankment at the left edge of the water. Many figures wade and stand in the shallow river near a line of bamboo poles strung with netting, and numerous small wooden boats are moored or drifting across the misty background. A tall lattice tower and a long pontoon bridge are faintly visible in the distance, and a single bird flies low over the foreground water.A wide photograph of a crowded riverbank at a Kumbh Mela site, with a large crowd of people in mixed clothing, many in red, orange and white, gathered along the shore of a wide, muddy grey river. Several small wooden boats are moored at the water's edge, and bamboo barriers and sandy embankments line the bank. Tall lamp posts, a telecom tower, and rows of tents and flags stretch across the hazy background under an overcast sky.2013-02-15Wide hazy photograph of a broad river, its grey-green water filling the foreground and a long pontoon or pontoon-style bridge running diagonally across it toward the right. Beyond the far bank, a dense, flat encampment of temporary structures, tents and shelters spreads under a pale, smoky sky. A raised concrete embankment with a red railing runs along the left edge. Small figures are too distant to count individually.A wide photograph of pilgrims bathing in a broad river at the Kumbh Mela. Dozens of people wade in the shallow water among a line of bamboo stakes and rope fencing, while others sit or stand on the sandy bank. Several women wear saris in pink, orange, green and yellow, and men wear shorts or dhotis. Clothes hang drying on a rope and bamboo frame at the right, with yellow and blue fabrics visible. Distant tents, poles and boats line the far shore under hazy sky. Watermarked archive credit is omitted.A wide river scene at the Allahabad Kumbh Mela under a hazy pale sky. Many small wooden boats with colourful canopies, flags and awnings line up along the brownish-green water toward a distant shoreline crowded with people and tents. Red and orange flags fly from poles on the boats, and a few white birds glide over the water in the right foreground. The camera is low over the water, looking across the river at the far bank.January 08 20062006-01-08February 05 20132013-02-05