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.

Steph looking at photos with a local kid in Harran

Us with our Turkish friends in Yesemek

Doerta cooking up a delicious German dinner.

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.

Sketching and sailing up the Euphrates river

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

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

The Cisterns in Istanbul

The inside of the church in the cave

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

Pegasus Airlines

Steph standing on the beach

Our sketchy hotel in Sanliurfa

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

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

Broken Turkish Pottery

Buying clementines in Antakya

Driving west, then north out of Antakya

Steph and I riding a motorcycle with a sidecar in Sanliurfa

Evening in Sanliurfa

Arriving in Sanliurfa

Juggling oranges on a street side fruit stand.

Kirk with the windfarm in the background

The Mosque in Kilis

Sunset in Samandagi

Freighter ships on the Bosphorus

Our dusk tour of the Hittite rock garden in Yesemek

Climbing the ridge above St. Peters

Getting Sahlep in Antakya

Kirk and Steph checking the guidebooks in Adana

Steph and the Euphrates river

Looking into the cut from the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Sunday night dinner at Kirk’s House

Street food in Istanbul

Street feeling in Kilis

Looking out to the horizon from the mountains in Vaikifle

A backhoe coming down Kirk’s street in Istanbul

The Hittite rock musieum in Yesemek

Talking to the hotel staff in Adana

Riding the dolmush through Belen, Tureky

Blizzard conditions landing back in Istanbul

Taking the dolmush from Adana to Antakya

Steph in the doorway of the Armenian Church

The archway and observation tower in Harran

Small produce market near Kirk’s house in Istanbul

Green spices at the market in Antakya

An antique Zenith watch for sale at the market in Istanbul

Local schoolkids clamoring to say hello to us in Kilis

Hiking the ridge above St. Peters in Antakya

Looking off into the mountains from Antakya

Fruitstand in Istanbul

Dilapidated houses in Adana

Goats in Harran

Driving through the mountains near the Med

Fishermen in Istanbul

Hassan, a local resident

Turkish Delight

Finding our hotel room

Driving at night back to Antakya

Having tea on the banks of the Euphrates with locals

A chef distributing pestashio on to baklava at Chadas in Gaziantep

Candle lanterns at the market in Istanbul

Taxsim Square, Istanbul

Catholic church courtyard in Antakya

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

Arriving to rain in Antakya

More dolmush rides

Sundown in Yesemek, Turkey

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

Me driving through flood waters in Samandag

An orange vendor in Harran

The ruins of St. Simeon

Medusa Head in the Cistern

Dried Eggplant shells in Antakya

Kirk negotiation for homegrown tobacco in Sanliurfa

Stephanie and I inside the cave in Antakya

Inside the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

The cave restaurant in Sanliurfa

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

Looking out onto the Euphrates.

Getting a concensus on directions

Sunset in Samandagi

Early morning walk to go to the Istanbul airport.

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

Street food in Adana

Local kids in Vaikifle

Me, Steph and Kirk about to split up in Istanbul

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

Beehive houses in Harran

Roof of the Aya Sophia

Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Ataturk in Adana

Grasses at sunset in Samandagi

Ruins of a castle in Kozan

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

Dinner boat on the Bosphorus

Olive vendors on the corner in Gaziantep

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

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Israel Photos Slide Show on Flickr