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.

Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Steph and I riding a motorcycle with a sidecar in Sanliurfa

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

Climbing the ridge above St. Peters

Arriving to rain in Antakya

Local kids in Vaikifle

Getting a concensus on directions

Fishermen in Istanbul

Sketching and sailing up the Euphrates river

Doerta cooking up a delicious German dinner.

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

Freighter ships on the Bosphorus

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

Street feeling in Kilis

Talking to the hotel staff in Adana

Olive vendors on the corner in Gaziantep

An orange vendor in Harran

The Mosque in Kilis

Sunset in Samandagi

Roof of the Aya Sophia

Kirk with the windfarm in the background

Candle lanterns at the market in Istanbul

Early morning walk to go to the Istanbul airport.

Green spices at the market in Antakya

Kirk negotiation for homegrown tobacco in Sanliurfa

Riding the dolmush through Belen, Tureky

Us with our Turkish friends in Yesemek

The inside of the church in the cave

Buying clementines in Antakya

Ruins of a castle in Kozan

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

Kirk and Steph checking the guidebooks in Adana

Steph standing on the beach

The cave restaurant in Sanliurfa

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

Looking into the cut from the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

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

Driving at night back to Antakya

A chef distributing pestashio on to baklava at Chadas in Gaziantep

Having tea on the banks of the Euphrates with locals

Hiking the ridge above St. Peters in Antakya

Evening in Sanliurfa

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

Arriving in Sanliurfa

Medusa Head in the Cistern

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.