About Festival Photos

First of all, thanks for visiting Festival Photos.

I've been going to various festivals since my first Reading Festival in 1994, and have always delighted in showing my friends the photos, depicting the wierd and wonderful things you see, from 5 foot Y-fronts on a stick, to a man beating a pan being followed through a campsite like some eerie pied pipper, and my favorite picture, of my friend posing with two lads we must have met on our drunken wanderings, who neither of us recall ever seeing before in our lives.

With the advent of digital cameras, I've been able to share my photos electronically with my friends and been able to add their photos to my own library, seeing things from another perspective or seeing things I missed entirely (pretty easy with so much going on).

As a festival fan it only seemed natural to reach out to other festival fans via the internet and get a feeling for the type of festival experience they were having. Because of this I've come across personal webshrines to the big festivals, each including a small selection of photos, limited I guess, buy the expense of webserver space.

What we hope to achieve at festival photos, is a library of photos, catagorised by festival and year, for anyone to browse through.

I'm hoping you'll spot yourself in someone elses picture. I'm hoping you'll be able to find a picture of something you were not quick enough to snap yourself, or were even looking the wrong way for. I'm hoping that by putting all the photos in the order they were taken, we will have a visual festival timeline giving you the opportunity to see what was going on in the campsite whilst you were watching the Foo Fighters (or vice versa).

In addition to that, I want you to have somewhere to put your private festival photo collection that you can link to from your own website, leaving your precious webspace free to rant about which is the best band in the universe or the best way to start a fire with a £10 bag of wet firewood.

I hope you enjoy the site and upload your photos, as without you, it will be truly, truly pants.

Signed: The Webmaster.