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A street scene before a tall, multi-tiered South Indian temple gopuram covered in painted deity sculptures in pale blue, cream, pink and green. A silver Toyota Innova with a roof rack and a Karnataka plate sits in the foreground on a busy road. Pedestrians walk along the street, including women in dark saris and a man in a checked shirt, while a man in a white shirt on a motorcycle gestures at left. Shopfronts, hanging signs and political or event banners line the road, and a small pale-blue temple sign reads Namasivaya at the gate. No ritual or a person depiction is visibly identifiable.

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August 01 2009 - Kalpataru, Thiruvanaikaval, India2009-08-01A street view in a Tamil Nadu town shows a tall, richly sculpted South Indian temple gopuram covered in painted deity figures and carvings, rising above low shops and buildings. In the foreground, a silver Ford SUV with Karnataka registration KA 04 MN 4444 is stopped in traffic. Several men in white shirts and dhotis walk along the roadside past a hotel sign reading Hotel Sabanayagam, with colourful cloth hanging from a stall at left. No one is clearly identifiable as a person.2009-08-11August 11 20092009-08-11August 01 2009 - Kalpataru, Thiruvanaikaval, India2009-08-01Street scene in a Tamil Nadu town looking toward a tall, ornately tiered gopuram temple tower painted in pale blue and teal with sculpted figures. A grey SUV with a spare tyre on its rear door drives down the road, its number plate reading KA 04 MN 4444. On the left, a woman in a yellow sari walks with a companion past shops, and a man in white dhoti walks along the sidewalk. On the right, a man in a checked shirt rides a motorcycle, and a green-painted building stands beside a signboard with Tamil lettering. Overhead cables and a telecom tower frame the view.2009-08-11A photograph of a richly painted temple gopuram tower, rotated sideways in the frame, its tiers covered in dense rows of colourful painted deity figures in red, teal, yellow and pink. Tall rock outcrops stand behind it. In the foreground on a street, several people in white and patterned clothing stand and walk near parked white and yellow vehicles, and a few people sit under a tarpaulin canopy. No identifiable a person figure is visible.2012-05-09May 09 20122012-05-09Street photograph of a colourful multi-tiered gopuram temple gateway, densely covered with painted sculptures of deities and figures in red, yellow, green and blue, with a red central spire, set against a rocky hill. Pedestrians walk and stand in a busy street; a yellow auto-rickshaw sits in the foreground, a white car and parked motorbikes are nearby, and a man in a white dhoti and a man in an orange cloth walk near the entrance. Shops and balconies line the roadside. No identifiable a person appearance is visible.2012-05-09October 23 20062006-10-23A street scene in front of a richly painted gopuram, the tiered temple tower of a South Indian temple, rising in front of a rocky hill. The tower is decorated with colourful sculpted deities in bright pinks, blues, greens and golds, topped by golden kalasha finials. Pedestrians walk along the road, including a bare-chested man in a white dhoti and a woman in a pink sari. A man in a white dhoti stands at right beside a green and yellow TSR truck, and a man on a motorcycle rides past at left. Shops line both sides of the road, with a vendor's cart of colourful balloons and toys at right. Several people are visible, roughly a dozen.2012-05-09Street 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.2011-12-08May 09 20122012-05-09