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.

Turkish Delight

Looking into the cut from the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

The inside of the church in the cave

Sunset in Samandagi

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

Hiking the ridge above St. Peters in Antakya

Looking out onto the Euphrates.

Buying clementines in Antakya

Fishermen in Istanbul

Us with our Turkish friends in Yesemek

A chef distributing pestashio on to baklava at Chadas in Gaziantep

Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Candle lanterns at the market in Istanbul

Street food in Adana

Steph standing on the beach

Green spices at the market in Antakya

The cave restaurant in Sanliurfa

The Mosque in Kilis

Our sketchy hotel in Sanliurfa

Dried Eggplant shells in Antakya

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

Sundown in Yesemek, Turkey

Fruitstand in Istanbul

The Cisterns in Istanbul

Roof of the Aya Sophia

The Hittite rock musieum in Yesemek

Finding our hotel room

Talking to the hotel staff in Adana

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

Driving through the mountains near the Med

Looking off into the mountains from Antakya

Beehive houses in Harran

Arriving in Sanliurfa

Climbing the ridge above St. Peters

Steph and I riding a motorcycle with a sidecar in Sanliurfa

Taxsim Square, Istanbul

Dilapidated houses in Adana

Blizzard conditions landing back in Istanbul

Taking the dolmush from Adana to Antakya

An orange vendor in Harran

Local kids in Vaikifle

Looking out to the horizon from the mountains in Vaikifle

Medusa Head in the Cistern

Small produce market near Kirk’s house in Istanbul

Driving west, then north out of Antakya

Kirk with the windfarm in the background

Doerta cooking up a delicious German dinner.

Arriving to rain in Antakya

Evening in Sanliurfa

Riding the dolmush through Belen, Tureky

Olive vendors on the corner in Gaziantep

Sunday night dinner at Kirk’s House

Ataturk in Adana

An antique Zenith watch for sale at the market in Istanbul

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.

Goats in Harran

Getting Sahlep in Antakya

Driving at night back to Antakya

Sketching and sailing up the Euphrates river

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

Grasses at sunset in Samandagi

Kirk and Steph checking the guidebooks in Adana

Pegasus Airlines

Steph in the doorway of the Armenian Church

Early morning walk to go to the Istanbul airport.

Me, Steph and Kirk about to split up in Istanbul

Local schoolkids clamoring to say hello to us in Kilis

Steph and the Euphrates river

Kirk negotiation for homegrown tobacco in Sanliurfa

Street food in Istanbul

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

Our dusk tour of the Hittite rock garden in Yesemek

Me driving through flood waters in Samandag

Stephanie and I inside the cave in Antakya

Freighter ships on the Bosphorus

Having tea on the banks of the Euphrates with locals

More dolmush rides

Getting a concensus on directions

Juggling oranges on a street side fruit stand.

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

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

A backhoe coming down Kirk’s street in Istanbul

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

Street feeling in Kilis

Steph looking at photos with a local kid in Harran

Inside the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

The archway and observation tower in Harran

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

Hassan, a local resident

The ruins of St. Simeon

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

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

Broken Turkish Pottery

Ruins of a castle in Kozan

Catholic church courtyard in Antakya

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

Dinner boat on the Bosphorus

Sunset in Samandagi

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Israel Photos Slide Show on Flickr