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.

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

Finding our hotel room

Broken Turkish Pottery

Having tea on the banks of the Euphrates with locals

Getting a concensus on directions

Steph and the Euphrates river

Driving through the mountains near the Med

Olive vendors on the corner in Gaziantep

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

More dolmush rides

An antique Zenith watch for sale at the market in Istanbul

Candle lanterns at the market in Istanbul

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

Local schoolkids clamoring to say hello to us in Kilis

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

Us with our Turkish friends in Yesemek

Small produce market near Kirk’s house in Istanbul

Arriving to rain in Antakya

Me, Steph and Kirk about to split up in Istanbul

Looking into the cut from the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Kirk negotiation for homegrown tobacco in Sanliurfa

Steph standing on the beach

Taxsim Square, Istanbul

Doerta cooking up a delicious German dinner.

Stephanie and I inside the cave in Antakya

Sundown in Yesemek, Turkey

Blizzard conditions landing back in Istanbul

Medusa Head in the Cistern

Sunday night dinner at Kirk’s House

Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Fishermen in Istanbul

Taking the dolmush from Adana to Antakya

An orange vendor in Harran

Sketching and sailing up the Euphrates river

Evening in Sanliurfa

Street food in Istanbul

Street feeling in Kilis

Early morning walk to go to the Istanbul airport.

Riding the dolmush through Belen, Tureky

Climbing the ridge above St. Peters

Green spices at the market in Antakya

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

Getting Sahlep in Antakya

The archway and observation tower 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.

Local kids in Vaikifle

Me driving through flood waters in Samandag

Looking out onto the Euphrates.

Steph in the doorway of the Armenian Church

Catholic church courtyard in Antakya

The ruins of St. Simeon

Beehive houses in Harran

Inside the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

The cave restaurant in Sanliurfa

Looking off into the mountains from Antakya

Turkish Delight

Dilapidated houses in Adana

The Mosque in Kilis

Ruins of a castle in Kozan

The Cisterns in Istanbul

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

Fruitstand in Istanbul

Sunset in Samandagi

Freighter ships on the Bosphorus

Roof of the Aya Sophia

Looking out to the horizon from the mountains in Vaikifle

Our sketchy hotel in Sanliurfa

Driving at night back to Antakya

The Hittite rock musieum in Yesemek

Juggling oranges on a street side fruit stand.

A local shepard and his flock on the side of the road in Yolbasi

Sunset in Samandagi

Steph looking at photos with a local kid in Harran

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

A backhoe coming down Kirk’s street in Istanbul

Buying clementines in Antakya

Hiking the ridge above St. Peters in Antakya

Talking to the hotel staff in Adana

Arriving in Sanliurfa

Dried Eggplant shells in Antakya

Goats in Harran

Kirk with the windfarm in the background

Kirk and Steph checking the guidebooks in Adana

Hassan, a local resident

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

Ataturk in Adana

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

Our dusk tour of the Hittite rock garden in Yesemek

Dinner boat on the Bosphorus

Grasses at sunset in Samandagi

Street food in Adana

Pegasus Airlines

Driving west, then north out of Antakya

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

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

The inside of the church in the cave

A chef distributing pestashio on to baklava at Chadas in Gaziantep

Steph and I riding a motorcycle with a sidecar in Sanliurfa

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Israel Photos Slide Show on Flickr