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.

Local schoolkids clamoring to say hello to us in Kilis

Steph looking at photos with a local kid in Harran

Evening in Sanliurfa

Riding the dolmush through Belen, Tureky

Sunday night dinner at Kirk’s House

Sundown in Yesemek, Turkey

Steph and I riding a motorcycle with a sidecar in Sanliurfa

Blizzard conditions landing back in Istanbul

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

Our dusk tour of the Hittite rock garden in Yesemek

Looking into the cut from the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Looking out onto the Euphrates.

Steph standing on the beach

Dinner boat on the Bosphorus

Local kids in Vaikifle

A backhoe coming down Kirk’s street in Istanbul

Dried Eggplant shells in Antakya

Arriving in Sanliurfa

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

Getting a concensus on directions

Looking out to the horizon from the mountains in Vaikifle

Hassan, a local resident

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

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

Dilapidated houses in Adana

Arriving to rain in Antakya

Buying clementines in Antakya

Steph in the doorway of the Armenian Church

Medusa Head in the Cistern

Hiking the ridge above St. Peters in Antakya

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

Turkish Delight

Steph and the Euphrates river

Taking the dolmush from Adana to Antakya

Juggling oranges on a street side fruit stand.

A chef distributing pestashio on to baklava at Chadas in Gaziantep

Street feeling in Kilis

Having tea on the banks of the Euphrates with locals

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

Olive vendors on the corner in Gaziantep

Street food in Adana

An antique Zenith watch for sale at the market in Istanbul

Taxsim Square, Istanbul

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

Climbing the ridge above St. Peters

Inside the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Ataturk in Adana

Looking off into the mountains from Antakya

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

Catholic church courtyard in Antakya

The inside of the church in the cave

Early morning walk to go to the Istanbul airport.

An orange vendor 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.