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A large outdoor crowd fills a courtyard in front of a tall stone temple wall with gopuram towers visible behind it. Most devotees wear white dhotis and shirts, while women wear white saris, pink, red and green garments; a few men wear saffron or orange cloth. A man at left in a white shirt raises his arm holding a phone or device toward the sky, and many people gaze upward. Palm trees and temple spires rise above the wall.

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A large crowd of devotees gathers on a stone-paved courtyard in front of a tall dark grey granite temple wall topped with a pink coping and carved stone figures. Behind the wall rise several colourful gopuram towers with white, blue and red sculpted tiers. Most people wear white dhotis and shirts or white saris, with some women in red, blue and teal saris. A few people sit on the ground at left, and a stone pillared pavilion stands at right. The scene appears to be a temple gathering in Tamil Nadu.2010-12-29A dense outdoor crowd gathers in a temple courtyard bounded by a tall grey stone wall with a pink-washed upper section and a small stone gateway with pillars at left. Most people wear white dhotis, shirts and sarees, with a few in green, red and pink. Many have shaved or cropped heads and several wear rudraksha malas. Some hold up phones or cameras overhead, and a man at far left raises a device. Bamboo barricades line the wall, and a palm-fringed skyline rises behind. No individual here is clearly identifiable as a person from appearance, so no candidate is marked.2010-12-29December 29 20102010-12-29December 29 20102010-12-29December 20 20112011-12-20A dense crowd of devotees fills a open courtyard beside a tall pink-washed temple wall with gopuram towers visible above, in a temple town setting with palm trees. Most people wear white dhotis and white shirts or sarees, while some women wear red, green and yellow saris and several young women wear orange shawls. A man in a turquoise shirt raises a phone to photograph the crowd, and a man in a cream shirt with a saffron-tinted head wrap stands near the front. Bamboo barricades and rope lines divide the gathering. The crowd is packed tightly with no clearly identifiable central figure visible.2010-12-29A large outdoor crowd stands packed in a courtyard between pale pink temple walls and a grey stone wall, with palm trees behind. In the foreground, a shaved-headed man in orange cloth and a gold necklace faces away from the camera, while a bald man in white dhoti with a gold chain and sacred thread stands with arms folded. A man in a red shirt holds a camera, and many devotees in white and orange garments fill the space behind them, with several people in white shirts and dhotis among the crowd. Ornate stone finials sit atop the walls.2010-12-29December 29 20102010-12-29December 29 20102010-12-29December 29 20102010-12-29December 29 20102010-12-29A large outdoor crowd fills a temple courtyard in front of a pink-walled temple with a gopuram tower and palm trees behind. Dense rows of people in white clothes and colourful saris and salwar kameez stand and sit, many with hair in braids adorned with flowers. On a raised bamboo-framed platform in the centre, a figure in orange robes stands among attendants in white, with a second person in white beside them. A stone pavilion with a sign reading in Tamil stands at left. Photographers are visible among the crowd.2010-12-29