Summer weather brings people together outside to enjoy music festivals, county fairs, carnivals and religious observations. I've gathered here some recent images of these celebrations, including a flaming horseman in Kyrgyzstan, Bastille Day in France, a German fun park inside a former nuclear power plant, and much more. [39 photos]
A girl on her father's shoulders looks through a maze of sunflowers growing in a field during a three-day sunflower festival in the town of Nogi, Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo, on July 24, 2011. A total of some 200,000 sunflowers welcomed guests for the summer festival, an annual draw for the small town. (Kazuhuro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images) 
- Ahmedabad
- Albany
- Albany Democrat-Herald
- Amit Dave
- Anthrax
- Anupam Nath
- Architects of Air
- Argus
- Austria
- Balabhadra
- Bastille Day
- Bastille Day in France
- Belgium
- Blankenberge
- Bob Wellinski
- Boryeong
- Boryeong
- Boryeong Mud Festival
- Brad Vest
- Brazil
- Bregenz
- Bulgaria
- Cali
- California
- Chambley
- Cheyenne
- China Daily
- Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company
- Chincoteague, Virginia
- Chungcheongnam-do
- Clay Jackson
- Costa Mesa
- Daecheon beach
- Dominic Ebenbichler
- Dylan Brown
- Eloy Alonso
- Etna
- Etna
- France
- Gabe Burrows
- Gauhati
- Gdynia
- Germany
- Getty Images
- Glinojeck
- Goias
- Gonzalo Fuentes
- Greater London Authority
- Guelaguetza
- Guru Padmasambhava
- Harrodsburg
- Heineken
- Hugoton
- India
- Indiana
- Jagannath
- James Brosher
- Japan
- Jean-Christophe Verhaegan
- Jianhe
- Jo Yong-Hak
- Jon Nazca
- Jorge Luis Plata
- Kalkar
- Kalli Corrick
- Kansas
- Keith Warner
- Kentucky
- Kevin Sullivan
- Kim Kyung-Hoon
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lake Constance
- Lamaism
- Las Vegas
- London
- London
- London Sky Orchestra
- Mark Renders
- Mark Ylen
- metal band
- metal structure
- Mexico
- Michal Cizek
- Music and Culture Festival
- Music Open Air Festival
- Naadam
- Nogi
- Norway
- Nyon
- Oaxaca
- Oregon
- Paleo
- Paris
- Planning
- Poland
- Pony Penning
- Prague
- Pulp
- Renata Dabrowska
- Reuters
- Richard Brian
- Roma Music
- Sao Paulo
- Sofia
- Son-Kul lake
- South Korea
- Spain
- Subhadra
- Susana Vera
- Switzerland
- the 2012 Olympic Games
- the fourth International Folk Festival
- The LaPorte Herald
- the London International Festival
- The Netherlands
- The Virginian-Pilot
- Time
- Tochigi
- Tokyo
- Tonsberg
- Toro
- Umberto Giordano
- United States
- Valentin Flauraud
- Valentina Petrova
- Virginia
- Vladimir Pirogov
- Vyacheslav Oseledko
- Wyoming
- Wyoming Tribune
- Zack Fergason
- Zeev Rozen
