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.

Green spices at the market in Antakya

Kirk negotiation for homegrown tobacco in Sanliurfa

Driving west, then north out of Antakya

Local kids in Vaikifle

Dried Eggplant shells in Antakya

Kirk and Steph checking the guidebooks in Adana

An antique Zenith watch for sale at the market in Istanbul

Street food in Istanbul

Fishermen in Istanbul

Looking out to the horizon from the mountains in Vaikifle

Riding the dolmush through Belen, Tureky

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

Our dusk tour of the Hittite rock garden in Yesemek

Pegasus Airlines

The Mosque in Kilis

Ataturk in Adana

Getting Sahlep in Antakya

Freighter ships on the Bosphorus

Roof of the Aya Sophia

Ruins of a castle in Kozan

Juggling oranges on a street side fruit stand.

Steph and the Euphrates river

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

Blizzard conditions landing back in Istanbul

Medusa Head in the Cistern

The inside of the church in the cave

Street feeling in Kilis

Sketching and sailing up the Euphrates river

Sundown in Yesemek, Turkey

Early morning walk to go to the Istanbul airport.

Catholic church courtyard in Antakya

Looking into the cut from the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

An orange vendor in Harran

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

Doerta cooking up a delicious German dinner.

Broken Turkish Pottery

Fruitstand in Istanbul

Sunset in Samandagi

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

Looking off into the mountains from Antakya

Stephanie and I inside the cave in Antakya

Driving at night back to Antakya

A backhoe coming down Kirk’s street in Istanbul

Taking the dolmush from Adana to Antakya

Arriving in Sanliurfa

Kirk with the windfarm in the background

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

Small produce market near Kirk’s house in Istanbul

Goats in Harran

Having tea on the banks of the Euphrates with locals

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

More dolmush rides

Taxsim Square, Istanbul

Hiking the ridge above St. Peters in Antakya

Dinner boat on the Bosphorus

Steph looking at photos with a local kid in Harran

Buying clementines in Antakya

Driving through the mountains near the Med

The Cisterns in Istanbul

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

Dilapidated houses in Adana

Hassan, a local resident

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

The ruins of St. Simeon

Inside the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Steph and I riding a motorcycle with a sidecar in Sanliurfa

Local schoolkids clamoring to say hello to us in Kilis

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

Getting a concensus on directions

Finding our hotel room

Olive vendors on the corner in Gaziantep

Candle lanterns at the market in Istanbul

Steph standing on the beach

Me driving through flood waters in Samandag

Us with our Turkish friends in Yesemek

Evening in Sanliurfa

The Hittite rock musieum in Yesemek

Grasses at sunset in Samandagi

Arriving to rain in Antakya

Street food in Adana

Talking to the hotel staff in Adana

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.