MyPictureSunday #11 - G20 Summit (no comment) Part 2

in #photography7 years ago (edited)

Dear Steemians, welcome to a special episode of MyPictureSunday

As some of you already know I was in Hamburg to capture the G20. This post is the second part and shows the day after the first riots. Riots happened again at the second day and I had to leave the area since I was in the middle of the clashes and it was too precarious. The photographs are uncommented. Make your own conclusions.

All photographs taken with a Nikon D750 and AF-S NIKKOR 24–85 mm 1:3,5–4,5G ED VR
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Awesome shots, who do you work for ? Or are you an independent photographer ?
However those people destroying shops and atms .. what a buncha muppets.
What are you proving by destroying someone else's good?
Why didn't they study to become a politician and make a change rather than throwing rocks and writing "fuck the system" on walls !? Hippies .....

I shot these photographs for Steemit

Good stuff @timsaid !!

A little sad to be honest, but good report. I can feel the revolution in the air.
Not a fan of non pacific manifestations but oh well... those G20 fuckers are far from pacific so... fair enough.

Great commitment going there to shoot pictures for us all!

Bless!

Now this is what I would call a true STEEMER. Respect !

And you do extremely well at it. Keep up the great work.

freaking scary
how could you dare and still shoot these?
I wouldn't dare go near the place
you still alive?
be safe :D

It seems that in recent history, most politicians who attempted to make change were murdered. One prominent that comes to mind was JFK, who was shot 7 days after announcing there was a secret shadow government controlling everything, if I have my facts right.

Nowadays successful politicians are not the ones who study harder but the ones who shout louder and make the better show

yeah...@kingmotan i agree with you. There has to be a better way.

Incredible Tim, I had to wait until I got home to respond to this on my computer, I'm not that good at cell phone texting.

These images as seriously raw! You can feel the grit and emotional scars left behind in that city. I was over at my father-in-laws house today, they have a Russian background and have satellite feeds from Russian and other international news. The difference in coverage from that to American news is striking to say the least. This kind of event is glossed over, rose scented, and dismissed for other trivial crap that has no importance in the larger scheme of things.

As I watched on their tv I showed him your pictures from your first post. It was the same "real" content as the international reporting, but much more personal. Then your second post came across later in the day, the whole family stopped to look through your post in shock. Everyone said almost the same things. First, they were alarmed for your safety and asked how I "knew" you and if you were safe. Secondly, they felt a sense of sadness from the obvious distress of the world, and pity for the innocent casualties of the rioting - the local shop owners, etc. who clearly do not deserve to be the focal point of aggression. After they would just walk away in silence.

I am glad you are safe, grateful for your courage, and thankful for what you have shared with everyone.

I really don't know what else to say. It's clear the world needs reorganization, respect for humanity as a whole, and a time of healing.

The result of too much tolerance for left-wing extremist terrorists. The authorities should have reacted much more forcefully and with overwhelming force.

Hey @sauve, it's a slippery slope with some of that. I see both sides. If people as a whole, any country, are not given a chance for peaceful protest so their voices can be heard and popular dissent known, then governments rule with unchecked power. The world did that already, and we lost a thousand of years of advancement because of it.

The key is "peaceful" protest. So the police forces have to show some restraint to give the benefit of the doubt in the begging. The problem lies with those who only see violence and anarchy as a way to still things up. Uncivilized behavior in these situations will not solve anything, it simply drowns out the voices needing to be heard.

The only solution for the police is to hammer down once protest turn into riots. If you behave and just protest no touch but if you even so much as begin to damage property receive the full force of the law. Its the only way people are going to learn if they have consequences for misbehaving and if that means going back to middle ages tactics, so be it.

I agree , they should prepare for the worst in people, but hope for the best - and only start crack'g skulls if they get out of line. But people everywhere do deserve the ability/chance to protest peacefully.

agree. this is totally unreal to be happening in Germany 🇩🇪 ⚡️👮🏻👮🏻🚓🚔🚓👮🏻👮🏻
🌈🙈🙉🙊❤️

@timsaid Tim, you were there in person. You got to experience this first-hand. We are discussing this based on what we see from our living rooms. What are your thoughts on what you saw? Were there peaceful protests in this, or mostly anarchy for the sake of anarchy?

These "protestors" are millennials who get money from mommy and daddy and don't work and want socialism. They are lazy and wan't other peoples money that they don't deserve

What do you base that on, @cryptotraderx?These protesters are informed,intelligent people, I know, since im familiar with activist circles. I do agree that some people go there to catch a fight, or break stuff. There are always rotten apples. These people are protesting a parasitical, dysfunctional capitalist system however, and they won't stop until they are heard. I won't either.

It's getting weird though when there are thousands of "rotten apples".

The German media and school system is brainwashing everybody that left violence doesn't exist and the right wing is the real problem. Wake up! When was the last time there was right violence on that scale? And what fear mongering by the media would have followed?

Do you really believe that "informed, intelligent people" behave like that? Everyone with just half a brain knew beforehand that the situation would escalate and therefore would not attend. Just watch all those videos with people booing the police because they are defending themselves. Being masked at a demonstration is illegal and the police had all the right to separate them. Those are not actions of informed, intelligent people.

What crypto told me is that when you want to see change you have to build an alternative yourself. Whining about the status quo is unproductive, and so are most extreme left wingers. If you have good arguments you will be able to convince people without resorting to violence.

That shop owner with a broken window sure will hear you and change the system for you. And these "rotten apples" are not individuals, but what mainly the group consists of. If the capitalism goes down in favor of anarchy - this is what the world will look like - exactly like on pictures. Maybe some people find it pretty... I find it pretty too - for a computer game.

I have been to a number of demonstrations, and the black bloc is always a minority, the real violent people an even smaller minority. If you have no personal experience, I don't take your claims seriously, I'm sorry. I'm a pacifist myself, and an anarchist. Most of my anarchist friends are pacifists.

Nice work and it's a great example at how fast things can go for what most of us know as 'normal' to where there are no services, access to banking, food b/c it's all been looted/ransacked overnight. One of these times, the windows won't be repaired, atm's not replaced, trucks will not be let through and then what?

The dual usage of the stones casts a bit of optimism... cobblestone almost a projectile and transformed by another into a message.

Also it is quite possible that paid mercs are sent in to do damage..the agenda being to discredit anyone who works toward change. Basically a classic frame job. So when services are down, the media puts the blame on people who tried to make things better and the govs who are actually causing the economic and social problems "rescue" the masses from those evil people who tried to change things, if that makes sense.

p.p.s. @timsaid getting stabbed or shot hurts too.

Did you actually get pepper-sprayed?

You are putting up some amazing photos man ! Stay safe :)

Tried to get as close as possible but at one point I returned. Thanks for the support

Seems like you're really commit to taking your photos :) the important thing is, you didn't get too close to danger.

Damn! The situation looks bad.

Hope all is well on your side.

I'm Tim the Steemian bro! Steemians are clever and know how to stay safe :P

Was just waiting for this post before i slept off @timsaid
what a shock about the damages on G20 Summit !

Krass beeindruckende fotos! Die Gewalt die dort immer wieder zu sehen ist... unglaublich.. kann das immer nur bis zu einem Gewissen Punkt begreifen... und Gewalt ist für mich irgendwie unverständlich...

Es gibt Dinge die kann man nicht verstehen

Upvoted as usual :)
I do a series called becoming one with nature and just released the 4th one. It is going okay at the moment but if anyone could Resteem and Upvote that would mean the world as i think the pictures are pretty good :p

Thanks
Otto