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A wide town street in daylight with a motorcyclist riding down the centre lane past a white multi-storey building with a blue-and-yellow facade and an ornate arched gateway on the left. Along the right side, white-clad people walk near a white truck and a parked motorbike, and string pennant flags are strung across the road above. Several people stand at roadside shops, and the long shadows suggest early morning or late afternoon.

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January 30 20092009-01-30A busy street in a South Indian town with a wide paved road running through the centre. Pedestrians walk across the road, including a man in a white dhoti and a woman in a green sari. Several black motorcycles are parked on the right beside a row of shops, and yellow auto-rickshaws sit on the left. A white minibus stands in the middle distance. Tall trees line the left side, and utility poles with overhead wires run along the road. A large billboard on the right shows portraits of men, though the figures are too small to judge clearly. Power lines and a low hill appear in the distance under an overcast sky.2012-05-09 +1 copiesA busy town street in daylight under an overcast sky, with a paved road running toward the distance. A woman in a pale yellow sari walks beside a green bicycle on the left. A man in a white shirt rides a motorcycle down the middle of the road. Several parked motorcycles and white vans line the roadside. On the right, a low building has a sign reading Sri Arunachala Auto Service, and walls are covered with faded film and advertising posters. Power lines cross overhead above multi-storey concrete buildings and a yellow-painted block.2012-07-08July 08 20122012-07-08September 23 20062006-09-23January 21 20092009-01-21A busy town street photographed from road level, with a striped concrete median divider running down the centre. On the left, a woman in a blue sari sits on the back of a motorcycle beside a man in a white shirt and dhoti, both moving toward the camera with motion blur. Parked motorcycles line the left pavement in front of shops and a multi-storey building. Further down the road, more two-wheelers, a yellow bus and pedestrians appear, while a small white car is parked on the right beside a shop with a red-and-yellow sign. Overhead utility poles and wires cross a hazy sky, and a blue Tamil-script sign hangs on the right-hand shopfront.2012-07-08A busy street in a coastal Tamil Nadu town on a cloudy day. A white van with a roof rack leads a line of traffic, followed by motorcycles and a flatbed truck. Two men ride motorcycles in the middle lane, one wearing a dark shirt and the other a light shirt. Pedestrians walk along the sidewalks, and a man in a lungi stands at left. Shopfronts display painted signs, including one reading Cape Hotel, and billboards with pictures on the right. Two yellow auto-rickshaws sit at the right edge. Power lines and streetlights run overhead, with trees lining the far road.2006-10-27A wide, largely empty paved road runs straight toward the horizon under a partly cloudy sky, with a white-and-grey striped concrete median curb on the left. Two-storey buildings with shopfronts line the left side, and a small roadside building with a painted signboard, parked motorcycles and a white car stands on the right. A tall palm tree and overhead electrical wires cross the scene, and a few pedestrians and scooters are visible in the distance.2012-07-08A busy street scene in an Indian town with a wide road lined with shops, signboards and tall street lamps. Scooters and auto-rickshaws move along the road, and several pedestrians walk on the pavement, including a woman in a red sari and a man in a light shirt. On the right, two older men in white shirts and dark trousers stand at the roadside, one holding a yellow shopping bag. Orange flags are strung along the roadside and a white bus with a window sticker stands beside them. Several women in saris are also visible near the bus. The scene shows ordinary street life with no visible ritual activity.2012-05-09A street scene in front of a South Indian temple gopuram-style entrance with painted deity sculptures and a teal-and-cream facade. A crowd of men and women in white dhotis, saris and shirts stands along the roadside, a woman in a yellow sari and a man in a pink-garlanded white shirt among them. An orange flag flies from a shop front; motorcycles and pedestrians move along a sunlit road lined with signboards.2009-01-21January 12 20072007-01-12