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Outdoors in front of a rocky, tree-covered hill, a shaved-headed man with a bare upper body and an orange cloth draped over one shoulder raises a silver ceremonial sword or staff overhead with his right arm. He wears a rudraksha mala and a bracelet. Facing him, a seated person in orange-red clothing wears a red and gold turban, a white and red flower garland and a white floral garland, and sits beneath a large red and gold decorated umbrella. Shipping-container style orange walls and a parked silver SUV are behind them, and another orange-clad figure stands at the left edge.

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February 03 20172017-02-03February 06 20172017-02-06A photograph of an outdoor scene with a rocky hill behind it. In the foreground a man with his back to the camera wears an orange sannyasi-style dhoti and shawl, a rudraksha mala around his neck, and holds a red and yellow ceremonial umbrella with tasselled fringe over a seated figure. The seated figure, in an orange-red turban and rudraksha mala with a trident-topped staff, sits on a red-brown seat in a pose of blessing, and appears to be a printed or painted figure rather than a living person. Behind them are stacked orange containers, a low white wall, and trees. Copyright text is visible on the image corner.2017-02-03A photograph of an outdoor puja at a hilltop-backed ashram platform. A bare-chested priest in orange dhoti and orange shawl, with a rudraksha mala, stands with his back to the camera and raises a brass multi-branched aarti lamp with a lit flame toward a seated figure. The seated figure wears a red turban, red-orange robes, rudraksha beads and a garland, holds a trident and raises a hand in blessing, sitting on a cushioned throne under a multicoloured fringed parasol. Behind them is a rocky wooded hill and orange shipping-container style structures. A brass lamp sits on the steps at lower right.2017-02-03February 03 20172017-02-03February 03 20172017-02-03A man seen from behind holds a brass aarti lamp aloft in his raised right arm during an outdoor evening ritual. He wears an orange saffron cloth wrapped over his left shoulder and a thick rudraksha-style mala with gold-coloured bead accents at his neck, and his bare upper back and shoulders are visible. Behind him stands a hillside covered in dry green scrub, and at lower right a colourful umbrella with red, yellow, blue and green panels and tassels shades the ceremony. The image is a photograph of an aarti offering to the hill.2017-02-04February 03 20172017-02-03Outdoor photo before a bare hillside with scrubby green trees and a pale sky. In the foreground, a bare-chested priest with dark hair and a rudraksha mala, wearing an orange dhoti and a shawl, faces away from the camera and raises a brass ritual lamp with a flame toward the hill. Seated on a raised concrete platform beneath a multicoloured fringed umbrella, a figure in a red-orange turban, orange robes, rudraksha mala and a white garland holds a trident and sits in meditation pose with palms together. Behind them are stacked orange shipping containers.2017-02-03A shirtless man in an orange dhoti and orange shawl stands with his back to the camera, holding a ceremonial object, before a large seated painted or printed figure of a saffron-robed guru with a turban, rudraksha mala and gold garland, under a multicoloured fringed umbrella. The figure appears in an image on a board or statue rather than as a physical person. Behind is a rocky wooded hill, orange shipping containers and a white wall.2017-02-03Outdoor photo of a seated figure in a red turban and pink garment, garlanded with red and white flowers, sitting on a zebra-striped cushion on a raised white platform under a large orange and gold patterned umbrella. In the foreground a shaved-headed priest with bare upper body wears an orange cloth, a rudraksha mala and bracelets, and raises a multi-tiered brass aarti lamp toward the seated figure. Brass vessels sit at the platform edge. Behind them are orange-painted shipping containers, a white pillar and a rocky hill with scrub.2017-02-06February 04 20172017-02-04