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.

Sunday night dinner at Kirk’s House

Having tea on the banks of the Euphrates with locals

Pegasus Airlines

Looking out onto the Euphrates.

Arriving to rain in Antakya

The archway and observation tower in Harran

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

Sketching and sailing up the Euphrates river

Hiking the ridge above St. Peters in Antakya

The ruins of St. Simeon

Beehive houses in Harran

The inside of the church in the cave

The cave restaurant in Sanliurfa

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

Freighter ships on the Bosphorus

Taking the dolmush from Adana to Antakya

Olive vendors on the corner in Gaziantep

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

Steph looking at photos with a local kid 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.

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

A backhoe coming down Kirk’s street in Istanbul

A chef distributing pestashio on to baklava at Chadas in Gaziantep

Street feeling in Kilis

Our dusk tour of the Hittite rock garden in Yesemek

More dolmush rides

Evening in Sanliurfa

Buying clementines in Antakya

Me driving through flood waters in Samandag

Me, Steph and Kirk about to split up in Istanbul

Inside the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Blizzard conditions landing back in Istanbul

Getting Sahlep in Antakya

Medusa Head in the Cistern

Driving at night back to Antakya

Street food in Adana

Looking out to the horizon from the mountains in Vaikifle

The Mosque in Kilis

Grasses at sunset in Samandagi

Roof of the Aya Sophia

Sunset in Samandagi

Green spices at the market in Antakya

Us with our Turkish friends in Yesemek

The Hittite rock musieum in Yesemek

Fruitstand in Istanbul

Our sketchy hotel in Sanliurfa

Looking off into the mountains from Antakya

Getting a concensus on directions

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

Riding the dolmush through Belen, Tureky

The Cisterns in Istanbul

Catholic church courtyard in Antakya

Looking into the cut from the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Stephanie and I inside the cave in Antakya

Local schoolkids clamoring to say hello to us in Kilis

Kirk with the windfarm in the background

Steph standing on the beach

Dried Eggplant shells in Antakya

Driving through the mountains near the Med

Dinner boat on the Bosphorus

Street food in Istanbul

An orange vendor in Harran

Dilapidated houses in Adana

Talking to the hotel staff in Adana

Steph and I riding a motorcycle with a sidecar in Sanliurfa

Ruins of a castle in Kozan

Driving west, then north out of Antakya

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

Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

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

Kirk and Steph checking the guidebooks in Adana

Broken Turkish Pottery

Doerta cooking up a delicious German dinner.

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

Arriving in Sanliurfa

Fishermen in Istanbul

Sunset in Samandagi

Early morning walk to go to the Istanbul airport.

Finding our hotel room

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

Steph in the doorway of the Armenian Church

Local kids in Vaikifle

An antique Zenith watch for sale at the market in Istanbul

Steph and the Euphrates river

Kirk negotiation for homegrown tobacco in Sanliurfa

Juggling oranges on a street side fruit stand.

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

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

Candle lanterns at the market in Istanbul

Turkish Delight

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

Sundown in Yesemek, Turkey

Goats in Harran

Climbing the ridge above St. Peters

Small produce market near Kirk’s house in Istanbul

Taxsim Square, Istanbul

Hassan, a local resident

Ataturk in Adana

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Israel Photos Slide Show on Flickr