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Night photograph of a crowded procession walking along a lit temple precinct toward an illuminated gopuram, the tiered gateway tower of a South Indian temple, decorated with strings of lights. Several people in saffron and orange robes, one wearing a long beaded necklace and orange shawl, walk alongside others in white dhotis and shirts. Colourful illuminated deity figures and lamps line the left, and striped yellow and white decorated canopies appear on the right under strings of small lights. A dense group of roughly twenty to thirty people fills the scene.

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Night photograph of a procession walking along a lit temple lane. Several men in white dhotis and shirts walk in the foreground, and a man in a rust-orange cloth and a rudraksha mala walks at centre, with long hair visible. A tall gopuram covered in lights rises behind them, with illuminated deity figures in blue and yellow lights on the left and colourful striped canopies on the right. Other people in white and orange cloths follow. Strings of fairy lights hang overhead.2006-12-04Night photograph of a crowd walking past a brightly illuminated gopuram of a South Indian temple at Tiruvannamalai, its tiered tower outlined with strings of white and coloured lights. Devotees in white dhotis and shirts and a woman in a saffron-orange shawl move through the foreground, with a strong glare from a street lamp on the right. Festival decorations of lights and bunting frame the temple entrance and a lit pavilion on the left. Faces are mostly turned away or indistinct, and no one can be clearly picked out as a person.2006-12-04December 04 2006 - Karthikai Deepam, Tiruvannamalai2006-12-04December 04 2006 - Karthikai Deepam, Tiruvannamalai2006-12-04December 04 2006 - Karthikai Deepam, Tiruvannamalai2006-12-04December 04 2006 - Karthikai Deepam, Tiruvannamalai2006-12-04December 04 2006 - Karthikai Deepam, Tiruvannamalai2006-12-04December 04 2006 - Karthikai Deepam, Tiruvannamalai2006-12-04Night photograph of a procession walking along a lit path toward a temple gopuram strung with rows of lamps, with bright floodlights above the colonnaded hall. In the centre, a long-haired man in white clothes and an orange shawl walks beside a figure in a red-orange robe with a long gold-beaded necklace and long dark hair; the figure appears to be a person, based on long swept-back hair, saffron-orange clothing and ornate gold necklace. Other devotees in white dhotis and orange shawls accompany them, one wearing a red rosette badge on the chest. Tall tower lights and a bright lamp illuminate the scene.2006-12-04December 04 2006 - Karthikai Deepam, Tiruvannamalai2006-12-04December 04 2006 - Karthikai Deepam, Tiruvannamalai2006-12-04December 04 2006 - Karthikai Deepam, Tiruvannamalai2006-12-04