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.

Sunset in Samandagi

Driving west, then north out of Antakya

Steph standing on the beach

Climbing the ridge above St. Peters

Kirk negotiation for homegrown tobacco in Sanliurfa

Evening in Sanliurfa

Ataturk in Adana

Local kids in Vaikifle

Local schoolkids clamoring to say hello to us in Kilis

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

Having tea on the banks of the Euphrates with locals

Juggling oranges on a street side fruit stand.

Kirk with the windfarm in the background

Steph and I riding a motorcycle with a sidecar in Sanliurfa

Hassan, a local resident

Street food in Adana

Me, Steph and Kirk about to split up in Istanbul

Steph looking at photos with a local kid in Harran

Sundown in Yesemek, Turkey

Talking to the hotel staff in Adana

Buying clementines in Antakya

Riding the dolmush through Belen, Tureky

The ruins of St. Simeon

Roof of the Aya Sophia

Looking into the cut from the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Looking out to the horizon from the mountains in Vaikifle

Beehive houses in Harran

Arriving in Sanliurfa

Catholic church courtyard in Antakya

Inside the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Dilapidated houses in Adana

Broken Turkish Pottery

Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Taking the dolmush from Adana to Antakya

Turkish Delight

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

Sketching and sailing up the Euphrates river

Small produce market near Kirk’s house in Istanbul

Blizzard conditions landing back in Istanbul

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

Our sketchy hotel in Sanliurfa

Street feeling in Kilis

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

Candle lanterns at the market in Istanbul

Kirk and Steph checking the guidebooks in Adana

Freighter ships on the Bosphorus

Dried Eggplant shells in Antakya

The Hittite rock musieum in Yesemek

Medusa Head in the Cistern

Looking out onto the Euphrates.

An orange vendor in Harran

Taxsim Square, Istanbul

Dinner boat on the Bosphorus

Looking off into the mountains from Antakya

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

Sunset in Samandagi

Ruins of a castle in Kozan

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

Olive vendors on the corner in Gaziantep

Stephanie and I inside the cave in Antakya

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.