Out of interest... just noticed while uploading an image:

Wiki Loves Folklore 2024

Perhaps they have been reading this mudcat thread (only joking).

I did check, and while images of "folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, folklore, and tradition, including ballads, folktales, fairy tales, legends, traditional song and dance, folk plays, games, seasonal events, calendar customs, folk arts, folk religion, mythology etc." are all in scope, I think most will be more colourful, and full of action, than mine...

Nevertheless I am still going back through my files and adding the odd one previously overlooked - latest is here (Kathryn Tickell in 1985, a second image). If you click on "more details" it takes you out to Wikimedia Commons where the image actually resides, or use the back arrow at the left hand side to see other images I have uploaded to date. I have finally figured out a way to re-digitise some of my old negatives at home as well, which means that I can improve the quality (overwrite with better copies) of some previous uploads, as time is available...

If this thread reads unduly like self promotion, I apologise! My main interest is in getting a subset of the images I have taken over the years, out into the public domain for others' interest and potential re-use (and to be archived somewhere without myself needing to be in the loop for ever), and pointing out its potential value for other folk to adopt as a mechanism if interested - I see *loads* of pictures around the net in the form of "here is a nice picture I have taken", but not that many (in the present context) uploaded to public repositories such as this one. (rant over...)

Cheers - Tony