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.
Finding our hotel room
Hassan, a local resident
Dinner boat on the Bosphorus
Sketching and sailing up the Euphrates river
Steph and Kirk with our dinner the first night in Istanbul.
Looking off into the mountains from Antakya
Taxsim Square, Istanbul
Early morning walk to go to the Istanbul airport.
Having tea on the banks of the Euphrates with locals
Pegasus Airlines
Inside the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi
Roof of the Aya Sophia
Kirk negotiation for homegrown tobacco in Sanliurfa
Dilapidated houses in Adana
The archway and observation tower in Harran
Stephanie and I inside the cave in Antakya
Green spices at the market in Antakya
The inside of the church in the cave
An orange vendor in Harran
Researching for our next day’s adventures in our hotel room in Antakya
Kirk looking at the surviving arched cieling of the castle ruins at Kasaba
Sundown in Yesemek, Turkey
Climbing the ridge above St. Peters
Sunday night dinner at Kirk’s House
Doerta cooking up a delicious German dinner.
A backhoe coming down Kirk’s street in Istanbul
Steph and the Euphrates river
The cave restaurant in Sanliurfa
Blizzard conditions landing back in Istanbul
Hiking the ridge above St. Peters in Antakya
Surveying the dramatic scenery as we drive to Bierecheck, in the canyons carved by the Euphrates
Arriving in Sanliurfa
Olive vendors on the corner in Gaziantep
Sunset in Samandagi
More dolmush rides
Looking into the cut from the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi
The Mosque in Kilis
Beehive houses in Harran
A local shepard and his flock on the side of the road in Yolbasi
The ruins of St. Simeon
Getting a concensus on directions
Riding the dolmush through Belen, Tureky
Ataturk in Adana
Roman Tunnels in Samandagi
Driving through the mountains near the Med
Ruins of a castle in Kozan
Catholic church courtyard in Antakya
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.
Looking out onto the Euphrates.
Our sketchy hotel in Sanliurfa
Street food in Adana
Small town on the side of the Euphrates. Their mosque was flooded when the damn was build.
Grasses at sunset in Samandagi
Me, Steph and Kirk standing on ruined pilars at St. Simeon
Small produce market near Kirk’s house in Istanbul
Arriving to rain in Antakya
Looking out to the horizon from the mountains in Vaikifle
Steph standing on the beach
Looking off into Syria, on the border between Turkey and Syria
Evening in Sanliurfa
Candle lanterns at the market in Istanbul
An antique Zenith watch for sale at the market in Istanbul
Steph looking at photos with a local kid in Harran
Dried Eggplant shells in Antakya
Broken Turkish Pottery
St. Peters hidden Catholic church in Antakya – built into a natural cave
Taking the dolmush from Adana to Antakya
Street food in Istanbul
Buying clementines in Antakya
Getting Sahlep in Antakya
Fruitstand in Istanbul
Driving at night back to Antakya
Walking at night in Antakya. THe street had a movie set like feeling from the yellow, flat streetlights.
Faces carved into the rock above St. Peters church in Antakya
Talking to the hotel staff in Adana
Goats in Harran
Sunset in Samandagi
Street feeling in Kilis
The Cisterns in Istanbul
The Hittite rock musieum in Yesemek
Steph in the doorway of the Armenian Church
Medusa Head in the Cistern
Me, Steph and Kirk about to split up in Istanbul
Us with our Turkish friends in Yesemek
Kirk with the windfarm in the background
A chef distributing pestashio on to baklava at Chadas in Gaziantep
Kirk and Steph checking the guidebooks in Adana
Driving west, then north out of Antakya
Fishermen in Istanbul
Freighter ships on the Bosphorus
Sitting on the ledge watching the sun set on the Euphrates in Kasaba.
Local schoolkids clamoring to say hello to us in Kilis
Local kids in Vaikifle
Our dusk tour of the Hittite rock garden in Yesemek
Steph and I riding a motorcycle with a sidecar in Sanliurfa
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