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A photograph taken through an open red-and-white gateway with blue iron grilles, looking down a courtyard toward a temple entrance decorated with coloured sculptural panels and a golden kalasha atop a gopuram-style tower. Strings of bulbs and garlands hang between palms, and a blue-painted doorway stands at the temple gate. Several people walk across the sandy ground: a woman in a pink sari, a woman in a light sari, and a group of men in white dhotis and shirts, one carrying an umbrella. Parked motorcycles line the left side.

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A photograph taken through an open wooden doorway framed in brown with white-and-red striped trim, looking out at a temple complex under tall coconut palms. A small gold-domed shrine with pink and blue painted gopuram-style ornamentation stands in the middle, with colourful deity murtis set in its niches. A white canopy tent hung with garlands and strings of small flags sits to the left, and a white-and-red boundary wall runs across the background with a figure in white near the wall. Strands of colourful bunting and lights are strung between palms. A blue sign with Tamil text is at lower left. Overcast sky above. The scene shows a festival decoration setting at a temple.2006-10-27October 27 20062006-10-27October 20 20062006-10-20A photograph taken through a painted gateway with red and white striped pillars and green-blue side walls, showing a procession approaching. In the centre, a gilded ornate palanquin or ratha shrine carries a deity murti decorated with garlands and flower adornments. Two foreground men walk toward the viewer: an older man in a white shirt and white dhoti, and a younger man in white with an orange shawl over his shoulder. Behind them, several people in white and orange clothing and women in green, yellow and blue saris follow the procession. Trees and a palm frame the scene under a pale sky.2006-10-24A photograph of a small temple building painted in white with red vertical stripes and blue door frames. On its roof stand a multicoloured domed shrine with a small kalasha, a figure of a seated deity holding a pot beside a white bull, and a colourful sculpture of Ganesha seated with an orange and red body and an ornate arch behind him. Two loudspeakers are mounted on a pole, and tall coconut palms stand against a pale sky. Two people are partly visible at the bottom edge near the open doorway, which shows a dim interior.2006-10-19August 01 2009 - Kalpataru, Thiruvanaikaval, India2009-08-01A photograph of a crowded temple courtyard with pale yellow colonnades and a gopuram-style entrance topped with painted sculptures on the left. Devotees gather around a central procession under a multicoloured striped umbrella, with a long saffron-and-yellow banner with a red emblem carried on a pole at right. Many men in white shirts and dhotis, women in saris and salwar, and children move through the crowd, and a uniformed police officer stands at the lower right. No individual can be clearly identified as a candidate, and the central umbrella figure is not clearly visible.2012-05-18July 23 20122012-07-23A photograph of a colourful South Indian temple gateway with a richly painted gopuram tower decorated with sculpted figures and deities, framed by tall palm trees. Red and white striped gate pillars flank a wrought-iron gate with gold-painted scrollwork, and beyond it a courtyard shows small figures near a shrine. A Tamil signboard above the right gateway reads a temple name, and a motorcycle is parked in front of the gate. The scene is a temple exterior with no clearly visible ritual activity or identifiable presentation of a person.2009-08-03Outdoor temple courtyard scene with a tall, multi-tiered gopuram covered in painted sculptures on the left and a white temple wall with red and white stripes. A golden canopied shrine houses two deity murti adorned with garlands, with a decorated golden palanquin-style platform in front. Several framed portraits stand near the shrine, including one of a bearded man in a white headdress and another of an older man. A large crowd of mostly men in white dhotis and white shirts, plus women in saris, stands and sits around the courtyard, while a group of priests in white and saffron seated before a fire-pit and offerings performs a puja. Palm trees fill the background.2006-10-25October 25 20062006-10-25August 01 2009 - Kalpataru, Thiruvanaikaval, India2009-08-01