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Night photograph at an outdoor shrine beside stone statues of deities, one with a garland of white and orange flowers draped over it. A bare-chested young man with his back to the camera, wearing a white dhoti-style cloth stained with pink and yellow powder, gestures toward the statues. To the right, another young man in a white cloth with a gold border holds a brass oil lamp with a lit flame and a small metal vessel. Both have pink and yellow powder on their skin, and the background is dark foliage.

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Night-time photograph of an outdoor shrine beside dark foliage. Two grey stone deity murtis stand on a stone plinth, one garlanded with white and orange flowers. In the foreground a devotee in white dhoti kneels with his back to the camera, his bare shoulders and upper back smeared with pink and yellow powder. To the right a second man in white dhoti and white cloth over his shoulder, his face and skin also marked with coloured powder, holds a silver lamp with a lit flame in one hand and a small bell in the other. Red brick walls and scattered stones surround the shrine. The scene suggests an aarti or puja performed with the lamp. No central seated figure is visible.2013-01-01January 1st 2013Night-time outdoor ritual photograph in a garden. A shaven-headed priest in white dhoti with a bare chest and gold waistband holds a lit oil lamp aloft in one hand while ringing a handbell in the other. Beside him, a devotee in saffron-orange cloth with a wrap over the shoulder stands with palms pressed together in namaskar. Behind them, three grey stone deity murtis stand on a plinth, and a low pile of rough red-brown stones is scattered with white flower petals and offerings. Dark foliage and a red wall form the background. Two physical people are visible, and the scene reads as aarti at a murti.2014-10-03Night photograph of a temple scene outdoors. In the foreground, two figures seen from behind: the right one, a man with a shaved head in a pink and gold draped cloth and a beaded necklace, raises a flaming torch high in his right hand; the left one, shaved-headed and wearing a white and gold cloth with a beaded necklace, faces the statues, with pinkish lighting on his skin and cloth. Beyond them stand grey stone deity murtis on a raised base in front of an orange-red temple wall with a barred window, framed by tree foliage. The lamp flame is the only bright light, consistent with an aarti.2011-12-15December 15 20112011-12-15Night ritual outdoors beside a white-wrapped pillar, with a dark stone deity murti visible at the left edge. A priest in orange robes with a gold border and rudraksha malas holds a lit oil lamp, its flame bright against the dark background. Beside him, a younger man in orange with a gold-bordered cloth and beaded necklaces holds a brass tray of flowers and offerings. A third man in white dhoti with a red border and gold chain stands with palms joined in prayer, and more orange-robed devotees stand at the right. Smoke rises from the lamp, and small flames burn at the lower left.2010-11-21Night-time outdoor scene at a temple-like compound. Several men in white ritual clothes, some with shaved heads and one wearing red-orange cloth, stand in a line near a gate. At right, three grey stone deity statues stand on pedestals beside a dark stone wall with a small lit shrine doorway behind. A tall illuminated lamp or shrine glows through the gate at left. A standing priest in white dhoti and shawl with gold border appears to hold a ritual item. Dark ground, bamboo and red brick walls surround the scene.2013-01-09October 03 20142014-10-03November 21 20102010-11-21January 09 20132013-01-09Night-time outdoor ritual scene lit mainly by flames. A person in the foreground wears a rust-orange turban, a dark red-and-white flower garland and a bare upper body, holding a lit torch or lamp taper toward a clay bowl. Beside them a second person in a dark embellished cap and saffron-gold wrap tends a shallow basin of burning oil lamps on the ground. Behind them stand carved stone deity murti decorated with red, white and yellow flower garlands, with a stone pedestal and dark foliage around.2014-12-05Night outdoor ritual photograph. A shaved-headed man in an orange saffron robe and a gold-toned necklace raises a lit oil lamp (aarti) toward a large carved grey stone relief of a deity beside a stone base with flowers and a brass plate. Behind him, white-clad men and women stand in a procession, a drummer in white beats a barrel drum at right, and a lit canopy or ratha-like structure with orange and gold decorations glows in the background. Smoke rises from the flame against the dark sky.2010-11-20