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.

A backhoe coming down Kirk’s street in Istanbul

Steph in the doorway of the Armenian Church

The cave restaurant in Sanliurfa

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

Doerta cooking up a delicious German dinner.

The ruins of St. Simeon

Riding the dolmush through Belen, Tureky

Stephanie and I inside the cave in Antakya

Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Broken Turkish Pottery

Driving west, then north out of Antakya

Dinner boat on the Bosphorus

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

Street feeling in Kilis

Beehive houses in Harran

Steph and I riding a motorcycle with a sidecar in Sanliurfa

A chef distributing pestashio on to baklava at Chadas in Gaziantep

Kirk with the windfarm in the background

Us with our Turkish friends in Yesemek

Getting a concensus on directions

Turkish Delight

Sketching and sailing up the Euphrates river

Driving at night back to Antakya

Arriving to rain in Antakya

An orange vendor in Harran

Roof of the Aya Sophia

An antique Zenith watch for sale at the market in Istanbul

Dried Eggplant shells in Antakya

Our sketchy hotel in Sanliurfa

Freighter ships on the Bosphorus

Arriving in Sanliurfa

Looking off into the mountains from Antakya

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

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

Pegasus Airlines

Local schoolkids clamoring to say hello to us in Kilis

Hiking the ridge above St. Peters in Antakya

Evening in Sanliurfa

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

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

Looking into the cut from the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Small produce market near Kirk’s house in Istanbul

Steph standing on the beach

Driving through the mountains near the Med

The archway and observation tower in Harran

Finding our hotel room

Green spices at the market in Antakya

Juggling oranges on a street side fruit stand.

Buying clementines in Antakya

Taking the dolmush from Adana to Antakya

The Hittite rock musieum in Yesemek

Hassan, a local resident

Fishermen in Istanbul

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

Ataturk in Adana

Street food in Istanbul

Early morning walk to go to the Istanbul airport.

Me, Steph and Kirk about to split up in Istanbul

Local kids in Vaikifle

Talking to the hotel staff in Adana

Kirk and Steph checking the guidebooks in Adana

Climbing the ridge above St. Peters

Ruins of a castle in Kozan

The inside of the church in the cave

Getting Sahlep in Antakya

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

The Mosque in Kilis

Sunset in Samandagi

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.