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.

Steph in the doorway of the Armenian Church

Looking out to the horizon from the mountains in Vaikifle

An orange vendor in Harran

The archway and observation tower in Harran

Catholic church courtyard in Antakya

Getting Sahlep in Antakya

Fishermen in Istanbul

Sundown in Yesemek, Turkey

Driving west, then north out of Antakya

Inside the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

A backhoe coming down Kirk’s street in Istanbul

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

Kirk with the windfarm in the background

Goats in Harran

Buying clementines in Antakya

Riding the dolmush through Belen, Tureky

Steph standing on the beach

Ruins of a castle in Kozan

Driving through the mountains near the Med

Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Having tea on the banks of the Euphrates with locals

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

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

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

Medusa Head in the Cistern

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

Taking the dolmush from Adana to Antakya

Olive vendors on the corner in Gaziantep

Roof of the Aya Sophia

Street food in Istanbul

Getting a concensus on directions

More dolmush rides

Our dusk tour of the Hittite rock garden in Yesemek

Sketching and sailing up the Euphrates river

Beehive houses in Harran

Grasses at sunset in Samandagi

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

Kirk negotiation for homegrown tobacco in Sanliurfa

Looking into the cut from the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

The Hittite rock musieum in Yesemek

The inside of the church in the cave

Broken Turkish Pottery

Us with our Turkish friends in Yesemek

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

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

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

Steph and I riding a motorcycle with a sidecar in Sanliurfa

Dinner boat on the Bosphorus

The Cisterns in Istanbul

Early morning walk to go to the Istanbul airport.

Sunday night dinner at Kirk’s House

Street feeling in Kilis

Looking out onto the Euphrates.

The Mosque in Kilis

Finding our hotel room

The cave restaurant in Sanliurfa

Pegasus Airlines

Stephanie and I inside the cave in Antakya

Green spices at the market in Antakya

Turkish Delight

Dilapidated houses in Adana

Candle lanterns at the market in Istanbul

Local kids in Vaikifle

Taxsim Square, Istanbul

Local schoolkids clamoring to say hello to us in Kilis

Our sketchy hotel in Sanliurfa

A chef distributing pestashio on to baklava at Chadas in Gaziantep

Blizzard conditions landing back in Istanbul

Driving at night back to Antakya

The ruins of St. Simeon

Kirk and Steph checking the guidebooks in Adana

Me, Steph and Kirk about to split up in Istanbul

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.