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 and the Euphrates river
Looking off into Syria, on the border between Turkey and Syria
Street food in Adana
Grasses at sunset in Samandagi
Looking into the cut from the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi
Fishermen in Istanbul
Looking out onto the Euphrates.
Us with our Turkish friends in Yesemek
More dolmush rides
Dried Eggplant shells in Antakya
Getting a concensus on directions
Doerta cooking up a delicious German dinner.
Sunset in Samandagi
Dilapidated houses in Adana
The Mosque in Kilis
Steph and I riding a motorcycle with a sidecar in Sanliurfa
Driving at night back to Antakya
A chef distributing pestashio on to baklava at Chadas in Gaziantep
Street food in Istanbul
Buying clementines in Antakya
Looking out to the horizon from the mountains in Vaikifle
Finding our hotel room
Sitting on the ledge watching the sun set on the Euphrates in Kasaba.
Me, Steph and Kirk standing on ruined pilars at St. Simeon
Stephanie and I inside the cave in Antakya
Beehive houses in Harran
Catholic church courtyard in Antakya
The inside of the church in the cave
Evening in Sanliurfa
Kirk looking at the surviving arched cieling of the castle ruins at Kasaba
The Hittite rock musieum in Yesemek
The cave restaurant in Sanliurfa
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.
Faces carved into the rock above St. Peters church in Antakya
Researching for our next day’s adventures in our hotel room in Antakya
Walking at night in Antakya. THe street had a movie set like feeling from the yellow, flat streetlights.
Our dusk tour of the Hittite rock garden in Yesemek
Talking to the hotel staff in Adana
A local shepard and his flock on the side of the road in Yolbasi
Dinner boat on the Bosphorus
Kirk negotiation for homegrown tobacco in Sanliurfa
Me driving through flood waters in Samandag
Hassan, a local resident
An antique Zenith watch for sale at the market in Istanbul
Sunday night dinner at Kirk’s House
Turkish Delight
The ruins of St. Simeon
Driving west, then north out of Antakya
Riding the dolmush through Belen, Tureky
Inside the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi
Looking off into the mountains from Antakya
Ruins of a castle in Kozan
Sundown in Yesemek, Turkey
Medusa Head in the Cistern
Goats in Harran
Sketching and sailing up the Euphrates river
Me, Steph and Kirk about to split up in Istanbul
St. Peters hidden Catholic church in Antakya – built into a natural cave
A backhoe coming down Kirk’s street in Istanbul
Climbing the ridge above St. Peters
Kirk and Steph checking the guidebooks in Adana
Small produce market near Kirk’s house in Istanbul
Arriving to rain in Antakya
The archway and observation tower in Harran
Juggling oranges on a street side fruit stand.
An orange vendor in Harran
Local kids in Vaikifle
Taxsim Square, Istanbul
Freighter ships on the Bosphorus
Steph standing on the beach
Blizzard conditions landing back in Istanbul
Early morning walk to go to the Istanbul airport.
Having tea on the banks of the Euphrates with locals
Hiking the ridge above St. Peters in Antakya
Olive vendors on the corner in Gaziantep
Arriving in Sanliurfa
Roman Tunnels in Samandagi
Steph in the doorway of the Armenian Church
Street feeling in Kilis
Sunset in Samandagi
Broken Turkish Pottery
Candle lanterns at the market in Istanbul
Steph looking at photos with a local kid in Harran
Getting Sahlep in Antakya
Steph and Kirk with our dinner the first night in Istanbul.
Kirk with the windfarm in the background
The Cisterns in Istanbul
Taking the dolmush from Adana to Antakya
Fruitstand in Istanbul
Our sketchy hotel in Sanliurfa
Green spices at the market in Antakya
Pegasus Airlines
Roof of the Aya Sophia
Ataturk in Adana
Surveying the dramatic scenery as we drive to Bierecheck, in the canyons carved by the Euphrates
Small town on the side of the Euphrates. Their mosque was flooded when the damn was build.
Local schoolkids clamoring to say hello to us in Kilis
Driving through the mountains near the Med
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