Well, that’s the world’s biggest art festival been and gone for another year, and as usual I snapped a lot of photos around the Fringe, mostly on the Royal Mile where there’s a section put aside especially for performers to gather to promote their shows (with hundreds of events you have to fight to be noticed and get an audience – not unknown for some Fringe shows to end up with just a few people in the audience in some shows, it’s a hard festival on performers and companies). I’ve actually still got a batch more to go up that I’ve not had time to process and upload to my Flickr yet (been busy with the final weekend of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, see my report the other day).

My average views on my Flickr usually go up a lot during the festival season as folks from all over look for pics from this year’s Edinburgh festivals and some of my older ones. Often I get double my normal average views. This year quite a number of times I got triple, taking me to an all time personal best, well over 6000 views in one day. Then the following day that record was smashed again with 7000-plus… Few days later 8000-plus. Topped out at just a smidgen under 10,000 at the high-water mark. Quite why it went so far beyond even the normal higher figures I usually see during the Festival I have no idea, but I’m certainly not arguing and will take ’em! Anyway, here’s a second selection of photos (click for the larger versions on my Flickr)

(the happiest party on Earth!)

(Performer from Fringe production of The Tempest – wonder if he is Caliban?)

(how could you say no to a face like this?! “Dott Cotton, International Idiot”, spotted her several times miming and clowning on the Mile, very good)

(performers from a production of The Canterbury Tales)

(some very energetic and enthusiastic dancers)

(Yes, it is a man dressed as a giant banana, with a mouthful of bananas, lying in a cobbled street in the historic Royal Mile. Must be the Fringe…)

(Performers from A Note of Dischord, a steampunk tale based on Sydney Padua’s 2D Goggles webcomic)

(performers from Music Show Wedding, a Fringe production from Korea)

(actors from a production of Peter Pan)

(Titus Andronicus, always a rather bloody affair…)

(more Steampunk fun from A Note of Dischord, kindly posing with their blunderbuss)

(dancer on the Royal Mile, gazing into her crystal ball)

(actress from a Fringe production of Macbeth)

(these young performers from a school in Oklahoma had a show called Shakespearience)

(young violinist on the Mile, with a practically glowing complexion)

(performers from A Romance)

(‘living statue’ lady in front of Saint Giles)

(rather fit and flexible young ballet dancer performing on one of the small stages on the Mile)

(tell me the kid at the far left of this row doesn’t look like a young Woody Allen in this pic?)

(performers from Hungry Bitches)

(a nearly naked, hairy man in a tutu? Not an unusual sight in Edinburgh during the Festival…)

(lady and her very friendly puppet friend)