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.

Sketching and sailing up the Euphrates river

Kirk with the windfarm in the background

Getting Sahlep in Antakya

Arriving to rain in Antakya

Sunset in Samandagi

Climbing the ridge above St. Peters

Small produce market near Kirk’s house in Istanbul

Steph and the Euphrates river

The Mosque in Kilis

Having tea on the banks of the Euphrates with locals

Inside the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Dried Eggplant shells in Antakya

Kirk negotiation for homegrown tobacco in Sanliurfa

Fruitstand in Istanbul

Medusa Head in the Cistern

Street food in Istanbul

Broken Turkish Pottery

The ruins of St. Simeon

Ruins of a castle in Kozan

Buying clementines in Antakya

Olive vendors on the corner in Gaziantep

Driving at night back to Antakya

Hiking the ridge above St. Peters in Antakya

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

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

The archway and observation tower in Harran

Dilapidated houses in Adana

Riding the dolmush through Belen, Tureky

A chef distributing pestashio on to baklava at Chadas in Gaziantep

Goats in Harran

The cave restaurant in Sanliurfa

Finding our hotel room

Catholic church courtyard in Antakya

Arriving in Sanliurfa

The Hittite rock musieum in Yesemek

The inside of the church in the cave

Beehive houses in Harran

Looking into the cut from the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Candle lanterns at the market in Istanbul

Street feeling in Kilis

Pegasus Airlines

Blizzard conditions landing back in Istanbul

Sunset in Samandagi

Looking out to the horizon from the mountains in Vaikifle

Steph and I riding a motorcycle with a sidecar in Sanliurfa

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

Early morning walk to go to the Istanbul airport.

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

Stephanie and I inside the cave in Antakya

Taxsim Square, Istanbul

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

Ataturk in Adana

Looking out onto the Euphrates.

Local schoolkids clamoring to say hello to us in Kilis

Steph standing on the beach

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

An orange vendor in Harran

Looking off into the mountains from Antakya

Our sketchy hotel in Sanliurfa

Fishermen in Istanbul

Steph in the doorway of the Armenian Church

Grasses at sunset in Samandagi

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.