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.

Talking to the hotel staff in Adana

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

Blizzard conditions landing back in Istanbul

Driving west, then north out of Antakya

Sunday night dinner at Kirk’s House

Our sketchy hotel in Sanliurfa

Early morning walk to go to the Istanbul airport.

Taking the dolmush from Adana to Antakya

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

Doerta cooking up a delicious German dinner.

Ruins of a castle in Kozan

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

An antique Zenith watch for sale at the market in Istanbul

Steph and the Euphrates river

Stephanie and I inside the cave in Antakya

Street food in Adana

Looking off into the mountains from Antakya

Sundown in Yesemek, Turkey

Street feeling in Kilis

The archway and observation tower in Harran

Driving at night back to Antakya

Green spices at the market in Antakya

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.

An orange vendor in Harran

The Hittite rock musieum in Yesemek

Climbing the ridge above St. Peters

Getting Sahlep in Antakya

Hiking the ridge above St. Peters in Antakya

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

A backhoe coming down Kirk’s street in Istanbul

Riding the dolmush through Belen, Tureky

Street food in Istanbul

Goats in Harran

Small produce market near Kirk’s house in Istanbul

Arriving in Sanliurfa

Me, Steph and Kirk about to split up in Istanbul

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

Local kids in Vaikifle

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

Getting a concensus on directions

Evening in Sanliurfa

The Mosque in Kilis

Steph standing on the beach

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

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

Ataturk in Adana

Grasses at sunset in Samandagi

Arriving to rain in Antakya

Hassan, a local resident

Beehive houses in Harran

Dinner boat on the Bosphorus

More dolmush rides

Dilapidated houses in Adana

Olive vendors on the corner in Gaziantep

Sunset in Samandagi

Kirk negotiation for homegrown tobacco in Sanliurfa

The Cisterns in Istanbul

Kirk and Steph checking the guidebooks in Adana

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

Me driving through flood waters in Samandag

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

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

Driving through the mountains near the Med

Roof of the Aya Sophia

Sunset in Samandagi

Finding our hotel room

Freighter ships on the Bosphorus

Juggling oranges on a street side fruit stand.

A chef distributing pestashio on to baklava at Chadas in Gaziantep

Medusa Head in the Cistern

Buying clementines in Antakya

Catholic church courtyard in Antakya

The ruins of St. Simeon

Dried Eggplant shells in Antakya

Looking out to the horizon from the mountains in Vaikifle

Taxsim Square, Istanbul

Steph in the doorway of the Armenian Church

Steph and I riding a motorcycle with a sidecar in Sanliurfa

Fishermen in Istanbul

Local schoolkids clamoring to say hello to us in Kilis

Sketching and sailing up the Euphrates river

The cave restaurant in Sanliurfa

Candle lanterns at the market in Istanbul

Inside the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Steph looking at photos with a local kid in Harran

Kirk with the windfarm in the background

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

Having tea on the banks of the Euphrates with locals

Looking into the cut from the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Pegasus Airlines

Fruitstand in Istanbul

The inside of the church in the cave

Our dusk tour of the Hittite rock garden in Yesemek

Us with our Turkish friends in Yesemek

Turkish Delight

Broken Turkish Pottery

Looking out onto the Euphrates.

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Israel Photos Slide Show on Flickr