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.

Street food in Istanbul

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

Catholic church courtyard in Antakya

Steph standing on the beach

Beehive houses in Harran

Pegasus Airlines

Looking out to the horizon from the mountains in Vaikifle

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

Dried Eggplant shells in Antakya

Climbing the ridge above St. Peters

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

Kirk negotiation for homegrown tobacco in Sanliurfa

Dinner boat on the Bosphorus

Stephanie and I inside the cave in Antakya

Street food in Adana

Buying clementines in Antakya

Early morning walk to go to the Istanbul airport.

More dolmush rides

Looking into the cut from the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Doerta cooking up a delicious German dinner.

Sketching and sailing up the Euphrates river

Taking the dolmush from Adana to Antakya

Driving west, then north out of Antakya

Driving through the mountains near the Med

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

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

Sunset in Samandagi

Olive vendors on the corner in Gaziantep

Taxsim Square, Istanbul

The Hittite rock musieum in Yesemek

Goats in Harran

The archway and observation tower in Harran

Fruitstand in Istanbul

Getting a concensus on directions

Steph looking at photos with a local kid in Harran

The inside of the church in the cave

Finding our hotel room

Local schoolkids clamoring to say hello to us in Kilis

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

Looking off into the mountains from Antakya

Blizzard conditions landing back in Istanbul

Driving at night back to Antakya

Sunset in Samandagi

Green spices at the market in Antakya

A backhoe coming down Kirk’s street in Istanbul

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

Steph and the Euphrates river

Broken Turkish Pottery

Hassan, a local resident

Candle lanterns at the market in Istanbul

The Cisterns in Istanbul

Me, Steph and Kirk about to split up in Istanbul

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

Our sketchy hotel in Sanliurfa

Talking to the hotel staff in Adana

Riding the dolmush through Belen, Tureky

Roof of the Aya Sophia

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.