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.

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

Street food in Adana

Me, Steph and Kirk about to split up in Istanbul

Sunset in Samandagi

The archway and observation tower in Harran

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

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

The Hittite rock musieum in Yesemek

Driving through the mountains near the Med

Hiking the ridge above St. Peters in Antakya

Taking the dolmush from Adana to Antakya

Getting Sahlep in Antakya

Steph standing on the beach

A backhoe coming down Kirk’s street in Istanbul

Finding our hotel room

Roof of the Aya Sophia

Sketching and sailing up the Euphrates river

Taxsim Square, Istanbul

Riding the dolmush through Belen, Tureky

Looking into the cut from the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Street feeling in Kilis

Me driving through flood waters in Samandag

Climbing the ridge above St. Peters

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

Having tea on the banks of the Euphrates with locals

Dilapidated houses in Adana

Fruitstand in Istanbul

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

Ataturk in Adana

Goats in Harran

Arriving to rain in Antakya

Dried Eggplant shells in Antakya

Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Pegasus Airlines

Our sketchy hotel in Sanliurfa

More dolmush rides

Olive vendors on the corner in Gaziantep

Looking off into the mountains from Antakya

Fishermen in Istanbul

Local kids in Vaikifle

Green spices at the market in Antakya

Juggling oranges on a street side fruit stand.

Looking out to the horizon from the mountains in Vaikifle

The Cisterns in Istanbul

Small produce market near Kirk’s house in Istanbul

Local schoolkids clamoring to say hello to us in Kilis

Looking out onto the Euphrates.

Catholic church courtyard in Antakya

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

Us with our Turkish friends in Yesemek

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

Talking to the hotel staff in Adana

Evening in Sanliurfa

Steph and the Euphrates river

Driving west, then north out of Antakya

Freighter ships on the Bosphorus

Candle lanterns at the market in Istanbul

Kirk with the windfarm in the background

The ruins of St. Simeon

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

The Mosque in Kilis

Street food in Istanbul

Steph looking at photos with a local kid in Harran

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

Steph and I riding a motorcycle with a sidecar in Sanliurfa

Sundown in Yesemek, Turkey

Steph in the doorway of the Armenian Church

Dinner boat on the Bosphorus

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

An antique Zenith watch for sale at the market in Istanbul

An orange vendor in Harran

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

Hassan, a local resident

Medusa Head in the Cistern

Inside the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Our dusk tour of the Hittite rock garden in Yesemek

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.