The summer always sees an influx of festivals around the world -- whether they be filled with art, music, plants, or bulls -- and the photographs that emerge are colorful, strange and intriguing. Now that we're comfortably in mid-summer territory, we're marking the occasion with a slideshow of some of the most beautiful photographs from global summer festivals. From the 15th Annual Mud Festival in South Korea to the Underwater Music Festival in Florida, we've got it all right here.

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  • A passing storm brought a halt to rides Friday, June 29, 2012 at the 26th annual Italian-American Festival being held this weekend at the Stark County Fairgrounds in Canton, Ohio. A wave of violent storms sweeping through the mid-Atlantic following a day of record-setting heat in Washington, D.C., has knocked out power to nearly 2 million people. The storms converged Friday night on Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin declared a state of emergency after more than 500,000 customers in 27 counties were left without electricity. (AP Photo/The Repository, Bob Rossiter)

  • Indian artists wait to perform during a procession of "Bonalu" festival in Hyderabad, India, Monday, July 16, 2012. Bonalu is a Hindu folk festival of the Telangana region in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A)

  • Tourists play with the mud during the 15th annual mud festival on Daecheon Beach in Boryeong, South Korea, Sunrday, July 15, 2012. The festival features mud wrestling, mud sliding and mud king contest. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

  • In this picture taken Saturday, July 14, 2012, Albrechtsberg palace near Dresden is illuminated by laser lights during the Night of Dresden Palaces Festival. Banner reads in German, 'Night of Dresden Palaces'. (AP Photo/dapd/Matthias Rietschel)

  • An inflatable giraffe stands among concert goers at the Optimus Alive music festival in Lisbon, Portugal, Saturday, July 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

  • In this photo taken with a slow shutter speed people gather to sing the 'Pobre de Mi', or Poor of me, a song that marks the end of the San Fermin festival, at the Pamplona's town hall square, Spain, Sunday, July 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

  • In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, divers strum on artist's marine-themed musical instruments Saturday, July 14, 2012, at the Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary off Big Pine Key, Fla. About 300 divers and snorkelers listened to a local radio station's four-hour broadcast piped beneath the sea via underwater speakers suspended from boats. (AP Photo/Florida Keys News Bureau, Bill Keogh)

  • Justin Gordon, of Groveland, Mass., works on his sand sculpture during the Revere Beach Sand Sculpting Festival in Revere, Mass., Friday, July 13, 2012. The festival runs through Sunday. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

  • Hard Rock Calling 2012 - London

    Iggy Pop of Iggy and the Stooges performs at the Hard Rock Calling music festival in Hyde Park, London, Friday, July 13, 2012. The weekend music event was planned to be held on the grass of Hyde Park, but after heavy rain the land turned into a muddy quagmire and had to be covered with wood chips to enable the festival to go ahead, as part of the build-up to the upcoming 2012 London Olympic Games. (AP Photo / Lewis Whyld, PA)

  • A man perfforming as a 'kiliki' or big head looks on during the giants and big heads parade of the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, Spain, Thursday, July 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

  • A Balinese boy wears a mask as he holds the rope of a giant traditional kite during a kite festival on Padang Galak island of Bali, Indonesia, Friday, July 13, 2012. The three-day national kite festival was organized to promote tourism on the resort island. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

  • Mongolian child jockeys compete in a horse racing competition during the second day of the Naadam Festival held in Khui Doloon Khudag, on the outskirts of Ulan Bator, Mongolia, Thursday, July 12, 2012. Mongolians celebrate the anniversary of Genghis Khan's march to the world conquest with the annual sporting festival featuring traditional Mongolian events such as wrestling, archery, and horse racing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

  • Actors play during a rehearsal of Giuseppe Verdi' opera in four acts " I Lombardi alla prima crociata " (Die Lombarden) at the DomStufen open air festival (Domstufen-Festspiele) in front of the Mariendom (Cathedral of Mary) in Erfurt, central Germany, Tuesday, July 10, 2012. The 70 cathedral steps which run between the magnificent architectural ensemble of the Cathedral of St. Mary and the Church of St. Severus are transformed in one of the world's most beautiful festival stages. The premiere of the opera is held on Thursday. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

  • A lady uses her smartphone to photograph a Water Lily at the Singapore Garden Festival on Thursday July 12, 2012 in Singapore. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

  • Backdropped by Tower Bridge, dancers perform hanging from outside the City Hall in London as part of London 2012 Olympic Festival, Sunday, July 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

  • An Indian worker prepares idols of elephant headed Hindu god Ganesh at a workshop in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, July 17, 2012. The idols will be immersed in the Arabian Sea at the end of a festival. (AP Photo/ Rajanish Kakade)

  • A replica of the historic ship HMS Bounty, right, sails past a lighthouse, center, as it departs Narragansett Bay and heads out to sea off the coast of Newport, R.I., Monday, July 9, 2012. The Ocean State Tall Ships Festival came to a close in Newport with a "Parade of Sail" along the east passage of Narragansett Bay as the majestic ships sailed out to sea. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

  • Aretha Franklin performs at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans on Sunday, July 8, 2012. (Photo by Cheryl Gerber/Invision/AP)

  • A bull jumps into the sea during the 'Bous a la mar' or "Bulls to the sea" festival in the port of the eastern town of Denia, Spain, Sunday, July 8, 2012. (AP Photo/ Fernando Hernandez)

  • Sufi Dancers from the Egyptian Sufism Folk dancing group al Tannoura, perform at the 27th Jerash Festival 2012, culture and arts event, in Jerash city, north of Amman, Jordan Saturday, July 7, 2012. (AP photo/Mohammad Hannon)

  • An Indian girl points to mangoes displayed in baskets at the annual mango festival in New Delhi, India, Saturday, July 7, 2012. India recognizes mango as its national fruit and is the world's largest mango producer with about 13 million tons each year, far exceeding all other countries. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)

  • People visit the AIDS Memorial Quilt on display as part of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, Thursday, July 5, 2012. An AIDS-free generation: It seems an audacious goal, considering how the HIV epidemic still is raging around the world. Yet more than 20,000 international HIV researchers and activists will gather in the nation's capital later this month with a sense of optimism not seen in many years _ hope that it finally may be possible to stem the spread of the AIDS virus. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

  • Shiite pilgrims gather in front of Imam Abbas shrine for a major religious festival in Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 5, 2012. The Shabaniyah festival marks the birth of Mohammed al-Mahdi, the 12th Shiite imam who disappeared in the 9th century. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

  • A Kashmiri Shiite Muslim woman holds her child as she stops to offer prayers near the candlelit graves of her relatives during Shab-e- Barat, on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Thursday, July 5, 2012. Muslims visit ancestral graveyards for the salvation of the souls of the departed and also believe that all sins will be forgiven by praying to Allah throughout the Shab-e-Barat night. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

  • A cosplayer walks among the crowd during a Japanese culture festival in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, July 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

  • Nepalese farmers dance as they celebrate "Asar Pandhra", or the festival of planting rice, in Pokhara, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) west of Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, June 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

  • Filipino Catholic devotees, who soaked themselves in mud and donned banana leaves as costumes, walk around the village to beg for candles prior to attending a mass to celebrate the Feast of Saint John The Baptist at Bibiclat village, in northern Philippines on Sunday June 24, 2012. Traditionally the Feast of St. John The Baptist is celebrated in this predominantly Roman Catholic nation in Asia by dousing unwary people with water but in this sleepy village of Bibiclat, the residents has chosen to soak themselves in muddy rice fields and don Banana leaves instead. The unique celebration has now become a tourist attraction. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

  • Chinese row a dragon boat past a dragon statue on a bridge while celebrating the Duanwu Festival at Longtan park in Beijing, China Saturday, June 23, 2012. The Duanwu festival, also known as the Dragon Boat festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar, commemorate the death of Qu Yuan, a famous Chinese poet from the kingdom of Chu who lived during the Warring States period. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

  • A Chinese child, center, adjusts his rice dumpling shaped hat while performing on a stage during the opening of the Duanwu Festival held at Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing, China Friday, June 22, 2012. Rice dumplings are traditionally eaten during the Duanwu festival, also known as the Dragon Boat festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar, commemorating the death of Qu Yuan, a famous Chinese poet from the kingdom of Chu who lived during the Warring States period. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

  • People participate in the sixth annual tomato fight festival called "tomatina" in Sutamarchan, some 71 miles northeast of Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, June 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

  • A woman's face is seen on a giant screen during a rehearsal of the play 'The Four Seasons Restaurant', directed by italian Romeo Castellucci on July 16, 2012 in Avignon, southeastern France, as part of the 66th Avignon Theater Festival. (ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP/GettyImages)

  • A man dressed in blue is carried as part of a crowd surfing during the Francofolies music festival, on July 14, 2012 in La Rochelle, western France. (XAVIER LEOTY/AFP/GettyImages)

  • A rider is framed by a tree as they ride the Whistler bike park in Whistler, B.C. Canada on Wednesday, July, 18, 2012. Whistler will host one of the world's largest mountain bike festivals, Crankworx, from August 10-19, showcasing the best riders in the business. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)

  • Participants splash colored water each other during a water festival in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, July 17, 2012. The event promotes tourism of local county offices ahead of summer vacation season. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)