Pictures from Athens today

mdebets

Here I have a few pictures from the big demonstration in Athens today and the start of the riots luckily (or unluckily, depends on how you see it) my camera broke (see my other thread) before the real riots started, so I got out save.
The pictures are JPEGs straight out of the camera, as I don't have Photoshop with me, so I can't process them before I'm back home.

The remaining pictures can be seen on my Flickr.

It started like a fun day out
Have something to eat


Drink a coffee


A day for the whole family


Make some music


Many people were there


Shout some slogans


and some more slogans


The demonstration finally reaches Syntagma square, the main square in front of the parliament


The police was alread there


as was RTE


The croud gets angrier


and angrier


The military honour guard (for the Tomb of the unknown soldier) leaves


The crowd tries to storm the Parliament


The police retaliates with teargas and the crowd retreats, but some go on and the first things are thrown


After this, my camera broke temporarily and I had too leave the scene.

greeneyedspirit

Very interesting, it's good to see the shots in sequence like that, and have the story developing... I'd say it got scary when the riots started, though! And I hope your cam is fixable, too!

Borderfox

I seen the stuff on the stairs live this morning, well done. Good timeline too

AnimalRights

Nice, would prefer if the pics were bigger.

mdebets

AnimalRights wrote: »

Nice, would prefer if the pics were bigger.

I choose the small size deliberately, as to not make the post too big (hate this if you have to wade throug a post that is too long).

mdebets

greeneyedspirit wrote: »

I'd say it got scary when the riots started, though! And I hope your cam is fixable, too!

I got swept with the crowed and couldn't turn back, when they started moving towards the parliament. The lucky part was that I didn't made it too far, before the polie started firing teargas, so I didn't got too much of it.

Got my first scare last Saturday, when I made it to the end oft Mayday demonstration (saw only the clean-up) and saw for the first time photographers with helmets and gasmasks.

AnimalRights

mdebets wrote: »

I choose the small size deliberately, as to not make the post too big (hate this if you have to wade throug a post that is too long).

It's a photography forum, people here can handle scrolling.

mdebets

AnimalRights wrote: »

It's a photography forum, people here can handle scrolling.

After some complaining I had a look at a normal screen and not on my netbook and I must say they were really small, so I changed same to the larger size

AnimalRights

Now, the pictures at this size are really bringing across the feeling of what is happening over there, I mean if it was a licckle flower picture then size doesn't really matter but this type of news picture does...


TY.

Freddie59

Brilliant shots. Brings home how the cradle of civilisation has been brought to its knees (like Ireland) by pure and utter greed. How sad.:mad: