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A photograph of a tall white gopuram, the ornate sculpted tower of a South Indian temple, rising above a street with a large green tree in front. Its tiers are covered in carved figures and it is topped by a finial. At the right, a pink and white striped temple wall and a small shrine with colourful painted sculptures stand beside a roadside shop with a striped awning. Two buses are parked along the wall. On the street, a few men in white dhotis walk near the wall, and motorcycle riders ride past, one in the foreground wearing a white cap and a grey shirt. Blue sky fills the upper frame.

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July 08 20122012-07-08Tall white gopuram of a South Indian temple rises behind a stone gateway at street level. A small shrine niche above the gate holds a seated deity murti with a child figure, flanked by bull statues and guardian figures. Shops with hanging goods, cloth and sacks line the lane. Several people walk through the gateway, including a man in an orange cloth and white dhoti near a motorcycle, and a woman in a sari. Printed text on the tower reads a Tamil word. No one can be identified as a person from appearance here.2006-09-23September 23 20062006-09-23July 08 20122012-07-08A busy street in a South Indian town with motorcycles and riders in white shirts approaching the camera. Behind them rises a large gopuram temple tower of tiered grey-white sculpted stone, identifiable as a temple gateway, with a line of flat-roofed shops painted green, pink and orange along the left. Overhead tangles of electric and telephone wires cross the blue sky. A woman in a white sari and a man in a white turban sit on a scooter at the right edge. A green auto-rickshaw is visible in the middle distance.2012-07-24July 24 20122012-07-24January 03 20182018-01-03A photograph of a tall white gopuram, the stepped temple tower of the Arunachaleshwara temple in Tiruvannamalai, rising over a stone gateway. Above the gateway a painted shrine shows deities, flanked by two bulls and two figures. Small market stalls with hanging goods line the lower left and right. Several people walk through the gateway into the temple precinct, including a man in a dark shirt, men in checked shirts, and a boy in a white T-shirt. No person is clearly a person; the scene is a temple exterior.2006-09-23Street scene outside a large white gopuram of a South Indian temple, its tiers covered in carved white deity figures. Several people walk along a dusty road: a bald older man in a pink shirt in the foreground, a man in white with a shoulder bag, and two men in saffron/orange robes walking in the middle distance near a red-and-white barrier. A silver minivan with a roof rack is parked at right, and roadside shops and power lines line the street under hazy sky.2011-12-08November 24 20062006-11-24September 23 20062006-09-23A photograph of a temple street scene dominated by a tall, whitewashed gopuram (temple tower) covered in sculpted deity figures and rising above a low roofline. In the foreground two men walk away from the camera, wearing white dhotis and white shirts with saffron-orange shawls draped over their shoulders; one carries a dark shoulder bag. To the left, a motorcycle rider and other passersby move along a dirt road beside a colonnaded pavilion with a small coloured shrine tower. On the right, a thatched-roof shop front displays colourful signboards, and an elderly man in a striped shirt stands at the edge of the frame. Overhead, power lines cross a pale sky and trees frame the scene.2009-01-29