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.

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

Kirk negotiation for homegrown tobacco in Sanliurfa

Doerta cooking up a delicious German dinner.

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

Beehive houses in Harran

Me driving through flood waters in Samandag

Arriving to rain in Antakya

Sketching and sailing up the Euphrates river

Local schoolkids clamoring to say hello to us in Kilis

Buying clementines in Antakya

Looking out to the horizon from the mountains in Vaikifle

Fishermen in Istanbul

Dried Eggplant shells in Antakya

An orange vendor in Harran

Steph in the doorway of the Armenian Church

Driving through the mountains near the Med

The Mosque in Kilis

Olive vendors on the corner in Gaziantep

Fruitstand in Istanbul

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

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

The cave restaurant in Sanliurfa

Kirk with the windfarm in the background

Sundown in Yesemek, Turkey

Arriving in Sanliurfa

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

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

Pegasus Airlines

Green spices at the market in Antakya

Sunset in Samandagi

Street food in Adana

Juggling oranges on a street side fruit stand.

Street feeling in Kilis

The ruins of St. Simeon

Turkish Delight

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

Having tea on the banks of the Euphrates with locals

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

Riding the dolmush through Belen, Tureky

Driving west, then north out of Antakya

Climbing the ridge above St. Peters

Hassan, a local resident

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

Steph and I riding a motorcycle with a sidecar in Sanliurfa

Looking out onto the Euphrates.

Kirk and Steph checking the guidebooks in Adana

Looking off into the mountains from Antakya

Hiking the ridge above St. Peters in Antakya

Finding our hotel room

Steph looking at photos with a local kid in Harran

The Cisterns in Istanbul

Evening in Sanliurfa

Dinner boat on the Bosphorus

Freighter ships on the Bosphorus

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.