Traveling through Turkey and Israel in December 2008, I managed to take roughly 1500 photos with my brand new Canon G10. The new camera was great, and the wide angle 28mm lens, ND filter, and full manual control were great to have in the field. I started the trip with 8gb and 2gb memory cards, and, shooting on JPEG fine, managed to start filling up the 8gb card way too early in the trip. Although I hate to do it, I actually did edit photos while I was traveling. In the end, I ended up with about 1200 photos. Out of those, I’ve edited them down to the top 100 or so. These photos I feel best represent the trip, and should give a good feel of the varying environments and sites of both Turkey and Israel.

I also took about 45 minutes of video, which I’m in the process of editing down to a presentable reel.

Local schoolkids clamoring to say hello to us in Kilis

Medusa Head in the Cistern

An antique Zenith watch for sale at the market in Istanbul

More dolmush rides

Sketching and sailing up the Euphrates river

Turkish Delight

Taxsim Square, Istanbul

Looking off into Syria, on the border between Turkey and Syria

An orange vendor in Harran

Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Me driving through flood waters in Samandag

Pegasus Airlines

Driving at night back to Antakya

Steph looking at photos with a local kid in Harran

Getting Sahlep in Antakya

Sitting on the ledge watching the sun set on the Euphrates in Kasaba.

A backhoe coming down Kirk’s street in Istanbul

Early morning walk to go to the Istanbul airport.

Green spices at the market in Antakya

Inside the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Dinner boat on the Bosphorus

The ruins of St. Simeon

Our dusk tour of the Hittite rock garden in Yesemek

A chef distributing pestashio on to baklava at Chadas in Gaziantep

Local kid holding a lamb in Antakya. On this mountainside we met a shepard tending to hish flock. This kid hiked with us for a bit up onto the side of the mountain.

Doerta cooking up a delicious German dinner.

Blizzard conditions landing back in Istanbul

Finding our hotel room

Kirk looking at the surviving arched cieling of the castle ruins at Kasaba

Broken Turkish Pottery

Kirk negotiation for homegrown tobacco in Sanliurfa

Our sketchy hotel in Sanliurfa

Buying clementines in Antakya

Small produce market near Kirk’s house in Istanbul

The archway and observation tower in Harran

Me, Steph and Kirk about to split up in Istanbul

Beehive houses in Harran

Steph and Kirk with our dinner the first night in Istanbul.

Freighter ships on the Bosphorus

Steph and the Euphrates river

The Mosque in Kilis

Driving through the mountains near the Med

Dried Eggplant shells in Antakya

Sundown in Yesemek, Turkey

Olive vendors on the corner in Gaziantep

The cave restaurant in Sanliurfa

Stephanie and I inside the cave in Antakya

The Cisterns in Istanbul

Steph in the doorway of the Armenian Church

Faces carved into the rock above St. Peters church in Antakya

Me, Steph and Kirk standing on ruined pilars at St. Simeon

Kirk and Steph checking the guidebooks in Adana

Walking at night in Antakya. THe street had a movie set like feeling from the yellow, flat streetlights.

Ataturk in Adana

A local shepard and his flock on the side of the road in Yolbasi

Roof of the Aya Sophia

Dilapidated houses in Adana

Having tea on the banks of the Euphrates with locals

Sunset in Samandagi

Sunday night dinner at Kirk’s House

Driving west, then north out of Antakya

Taking the dolmush from Adana to Antakya

Hiking the ridge above St. Peters in Antakya

Surveying the dramatic scenery as we drive to Bierecheck, in the canyons carved by the Euphrates

Talking to the hotel staff in Adana

Looking out onto the Euphrates.

Candle lanterns at the market in Istanbul

Steph standing on the beach

Fruitstand in Istanbul

Street food in Istanbul

Looking off into the mountains from Antakya

Arriving to rain in Antakya

Us with our Turkish friends in Yesemek

Arriving in Sanliurfa

Looking into the cut from the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Sunset in Samandagi

Goats in Harran

Street feeling in Kilis

Local kids in Vaikifle

Grasses at sunset in Samandagi

Catholic church courtyard in Antakya

Researching for our next day’s adventures in our hotel room in Antakya

Street food in Adana

Kirk with the windfarm in the background

Climbing the ridge above St. Peters

Fishermen in Istanbul

Getting a concensus on directions

Steph and I riding a motorcycle with a sidecar in Sanliurfa

The Hittite rock musieum in Yesemek

Juggling oranges on a street side fruit stand.

The inside of the church in the cave

Ruins of a castle in Kozan

Hassan, a local resident

Evening in Sanliurfa

Riding the dolmush through Belen, Tureky

Small town on the side of the Euphrates. Their mosque was flooded when the damn was build.

Looking out to the horizon from the mountains in Vaikifle

St. Peters hidden Catholic church in Antakya – built into a natural cave

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