Traveling Through Turkey and Israel – Photos

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.

The cave restaurant in Sanliurfa

Doerta cooking up a delicious German dinner.

Pegasus Airlines

Street food in Adana

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

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

Kirk negotiation for homegrown tobacco in Sanliurfa

Olive vendors on the corner in Gaziantep

Goats in Harran

Steph standing on the beach

Grasses at sunset in Samandagi

Freighter ships on the Bosphorus

Sunday night dinner at Kirk’s House

Turkish Delight

An orange vendor in Harran

Taking the dolmush from Adana to Antakya

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

Juggling oranges on a street side fruit stand.

A backhoe coming down Kirk’s street in Istanbul

An antique Zenith watch for sale at the market in Istanbul

Looking out to the horizon from the mountains in Vaikifle

Steph looking at photos with a local kid in Harran

Blizzard conditions landing back in Istanbul

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

Riding the dolmush through Belen, Tureky

Sundown in Yesemek, Turkey

Stephanie and I inside the cave in Antakya

Finding our hotel room

Arriving in Sanliurfa

Arriving to rain in Antakya

More dolmush rides

Ataturk in Adana

Driving at night back to Antakya

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

Looking into the cut from the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

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

The inside of the church in the cave

Me driving through flood waters in Samandag

Climbing the ridge above St. Peters

Dried Eggplant shells in Antakya

Fishermen in Istanbul

Sketching and sailing up the Euphrates river

Small produce market near Kirk’s house in Istanbul

Driving west, then north out of Antakya

Catholic church courtyard in Antakya

Ruins of a castle in Kozan

Driving through the mountains near the Med

Taxsim Square, Istanbul

Early morning walk to go to the Istanbul airport.

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

Roof of the Aya Sophia

Dilapidated houses in Adana

Me, Steph and Kirk about to split up in Istanbul

Candle lanterns at the market in Istanbul

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

Broken Turkish Pottery

Street feeling in Kilis

Dinner boat on the Bosphorus

The Cisterns in Istanbul

Steph and the Euphrates river

Local kids in Vaikifle

Buying clementines in Antakya

Kirk with the windfarm in the background

Getting Sahlep in Antakya

Street food in Istanbul

Steph in the doorway of the Armenian Church

Beehive houses in Harran

Looking out onto the Euphrates.

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

Hassan, a local resident

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

Local schoolkids clamoring to say hello to us in Kilis

Inside the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Looking off into the mountains from Antakya

Talking to the hotel staff in Adana

A chef distributing pestashio on to baklava at Chadas in Gaziantep

Getting a concensus on directions

The Mosque in Kilis

Evening in Sanliurfa

The archway and observation tower in Harran

Medusa Head in the Cistern

The Hittite rock musieum in Yesemek

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.