Hello everyone (including any neighbours I met on the campsite), welcome to this week’s edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge, once again brightening your Monday with eclectic images from around the world.

I set the theme on Friday with full knowledge of the fact I was attending Leopallooza festival over the weekend, thereby giving myself a slight advantage when I set you a theme of; Festivals.

So to make it fair I gave you a wild card Freestyle option to post whatever you like, in case you didn’t have any appropriately festive material to hand.

Friday dawned bright and sunny, boding well for pitching the tent, so I made an early start and after arriving at the site before the gates opened, was actually the very first person on the campsite.

I made a beeline for the high ground and got the tent up on my prime piece of real estate before anyone else could stake their claim, nicely sheltered by a tall hedge with a view across the whole site. It wasn’t long before some fellow campers arrived to complete a very convivial little neighborhood and after a coffee and a chat I went exploring.

On Saturday the rains came. And they kept coming. And they brought the mud.

It cheered up again on Sunday, but the mud remained and it was only the weather which needed cheering up anyway, I didn’t see an unhappy face all weekend, the atmosphere was great.

And they have the best festival bar I’ve ever seen. It has sofas! It has armchairs! It has a view of the arena!

I didn’t spend the whole weekend in there, honest.

Here are some of my highlights from what was sadly the very last Leopallooza festival, although there are rumours that it may return in some form soon.

{There’s an expanded version of this post on my other blog and you can see it HERE}

Festive or freestyling, which did you choose this week? Drop your links in the comments and show us what you have to offer…

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with  #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.