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Outdoor festival scene at dusk beside a tall copper ratha-style pillar or chariot-post decorated with yellow marigold garlands and wheat-sheaf ornaments. A figure in a long red-orange robe bends forward at the top of a white platform, gripping a thick white rope while a brass bell and a brass vessel sit on the platform. A colourful umbrella with a logo stands at left, and a crowd of devotees in red and white clothing watches from the foreground, one man in a red shawl reaching toward the rope.

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March 02 20112011-03-02January 02 20092009-01-02Outdoor festival scene at dusk under a clear blue sky. A red-orange flag is raised on two ropes at upper centre-left, pulled by hands gripping the rope at the lower left. On the right, a tall copper-coloured pillar with twisted ribbed bands rises beside a decorated shrine-like structure with yellow marigold garlands and dried grass plumes. A man with curly dark hair in an orange-red robe leans forward at the lower right, working on the ropes beside a canopy edge with fringed gold trim. Several other people in dark or red clothing are partly visible in the shadowed foreground. The scene suggests a procession or ratha-related ceremony, though no clear event text is visible.2009-01-02January 02 20092009-01-02January 02 20092009-01-02January 02 20092009-01-02Outdoor photo of a tall copper flagstaff (dhwaja stambham) rising from an ornately carved stone and copper base decorated with yellow and white marigold garlands and bundles of dried straw. A man in orange-red dhoti and wrap pulls a rope wound around the pole with both hands, while a second figure in similar orange-red robes stands at left, partly cut off by the frame. Yellow and orange cloth canopies hang overhead under a clear sky, and scattered flower petals lie on the white platform.2009-01-02A tall copper-coloured flagstaff rises against a clear blue sky at dusk, banded with rope-like rings and topped by a small carved shrine-like finial with straw-like decorations and marigold garlands. A saffron-orange flag with white and red trim hangs from a rope beside the pole. In the lower right, a man in a saffron-orange dhoti and top reaches up to the pole, his back to the camera. Yellow and orange canopy cloth stretches overhead, and a few seated people are visible at the lower left edge. The scene suggests a festival flag-raising ritual.2009-01-02January 02 20092009-01-02December 18 20132013-12-18A photograph of a devotee in saffron orange robes and a dark rudraksha mala raising a red-orange flag on a rope beside a tall copper flagpole. The pole is wrapped in braided cord and garlanded with white flower strands, with a bundle of straw or grass tied near its base. A palm tree and pale sky are behind. At the lower right edge, another person in orange clothing is partly visible. The man, pointing upward while gripping the rope with his other hand, appears to be performing a flag hoisting. Two people are visible.2010-07-01A photograph of an outdoor temple festival at a copper-clad ritual pillar or dhwaja stambha decorated with yellow and white flower garlands and dried paddy sheaves. In the centre, a man in an orange robe leans over a white plinth, pulling on a rope that raises a long orange and white flag with a sheaf of grass at its top. Beside him, a bare-chested attendant in an orange cloth and a white flower garland raises his arm, and other orange-clad helpers stand nearby. Behind them a dense crowd of devotees watches, and a colourful umbrella and a yellow and green canopy shade the scene. Painted panels of a deity appear in the background.2009-01-02