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.

Juggling oranges on a street side fruit stand.

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

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

Me driving through flood waters in Samandag

Local kids in Vaikifle

Me, Steph and Kirk about to split up in Istanbul

Broken Turkish Pottery

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

A chef distributing pestashio on to baklava at Chadas in Gaziantep

Finding our hotel room

Doerta cooking up a delicious German dinner.

Green spices at the market in Antakya

Sunset in Samandagi

An antique Zenith watch for sale at the market in Istanbul

Grasses at sunset in Samandagi

Riding the dolmush through Belen, Tureky

The Cisterns in Istanbul

Looking out to the horizon from the mountains in Vaikifle

Arriving in Sanliurfa

Dried Eggplant shells in Antakya

Talking to the hotel staff in Adana

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

Looking into the cut from the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Blizzard conditions landing back in Istanbul

Kirk negotiation for homegrown tobacco in Sanliurfa

An orange vendor in Harran

Taxsim Square, Istanbul

Steph looking at photos with a local kid in Harran

Our sketchy hotel in Sanliurfa

Fruitstand in Istanbul

Driving at night back to Antakya

Buying clementines in Antakya

Steph and I riding a motorcycle with a sidecar in Sanliurfa

Our dusk tour of the Hittite rock garden in Yesemek

Hassan, a local resident

Roof of the Aya Sophia

The cave restaurant in Sanliurfa

Driving through the mountains near the Med

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.

Arriving to rain in Antakya

Sundown in Yesemek, Turkey

Freighter ships on the Bosphorus

Climbing the ridge above St. Peters

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

The inside of the church in the cave

Goats in Harran

More dolmush rides

Steph in the doorway of the Armenian Church

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

Olive vendors on the corner in Gaziantep

Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

A backhoe coming down Kirk’s street in Istanbul

Inside the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Sunset in Samandagi

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

Stephanie and I inside the cave in Antakya

Getting a concensus on directions

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

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

Us with our Turkish friends in Yesemek

Sunday night dinner at Kirk’s House

Pegasus Airlines

Steph and the Euphrates river

Small produce market near Kirk’s house in Istanbul

Kirk and Steph checking the guidebooks in Adana

Ruins of a castle in Kozan

Getting Sahlep in Antakya

Turkish Delight

Medusa Head in the Cistern

Fishermen in Istanbul

Catholic church courtyard in Antakya

Early morning walk to go to the Istanbul airport.

Evening in Sanliurfa

Looking off into the mountains from Antakya

The archway and observation tower in Harran

Beehive houses in Harran

The Mosque in Kilis

Taking the dolmush from Adana to Antakya

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

Steph standing on the beach

Ataturk in Adana

Hiking the ridge above St. Peters in Antakya

Sketching and sailing up the Euphrates river

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

Driving west, then north out of Antakya

Street food in Istanbul

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

Having tea on the banks of the Euphrates with locals

Local schoolkids clamoring to say hello to us in Kilis

Street food in Adana

Street feeling in Kilis

Candle lanterns at the market in Istanbul

The ruins of St. Simeon

Dinner boat on the Bosphorus

The Hittite rock musieum in Yesemek

Looking out onto the Euphrates.

Dilapidated houses in Adana

Kirk with the windfarm in the background

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Israel Photos Slide Show on Flickr