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