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.

Ataturk in Adana

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.

Dilapidated houses in Adana

Sunset in Samandagi

Getting Sahlep in Antakya

Our sketchy hotel in Sanliurfa

Grasses at sunset in Samandagi

Roof of the Aya Sophia

Sunday night dinner at Kirk’s House

Getting a concensus on directions

Blizzard conditions landing back in Istanbul

Ruins of a castle in Kozan

Looking out onto the Euphrates.

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

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

Steph and the Euphrates river

A chef distributing pestashio on to baklava at Chadas in Gaziantep

Looking into the cut from the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Sketching and sailing up the Euphrates river

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

Me, Steph and Kirk about to split up in Istanbul

Doerta cooking up a delicious German dinner.

Kirk with the windfarm in the background

Riding the dolmush through Belen, Tureky

Hassan, a local resident

Steph in the doorway of the Armenian Church

Juggling oranges on a street side fruit stand.

Driving at night back to Antakya

Sunset in Samandagi

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

Pegasus Airlines

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

Finding our hotel room

Catholic church courtyard in Antakya

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

Hiking the ridge above St. Peters in Antakya

Fruitstand in Istanbul

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

Medusa Head in the Cistern

Us with our Turkish friends in Yesemek

Dinner boat on the Bosphorus

Candle lanterns at the market in Istanbul

Me driving through flood waters in Samandag

Our dusk tour of the Hittite rock garden in Yesemek

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

Olive vendors on the corner in Gaziantep

An antique Zenith watch for sale at the market in Istanbul

Local kids in Vaikifle

Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Freighter ships on the Bosphorus

Kirk and Steph checking the guidebooks in Adana

Goats in Harran

The inside of the church in the cave

The Hittite rock musieum in Yesemek

The Cisterns in Istanbul

Beehive houses in Harran

Climbing the ridge above St. Peters

Arriving to rain in Antakya

Small produce market near Kirk’s house in Istanbul

Street food in Istanbul

Dried Eggplant shells in Antakya

Taking the dolmush from Adana to Antakya

Street feeling in Kilis

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

Buying clementines in Antakya

Broken Turkish Pottery

Turkish Delight

A backhoe coming down Kirk’s street in Istanbul

Stephanie and I inside the cave in Antakya

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

Driving through the mountains near the Med

Steph looking at photos with a local kid in Harran

Inside the Roman Tunnels in Samandagi

Steph and I riding a motorcycle with a sidecar in Sanliurfa

Having tea on the banks of the Euphrates with locals

Arriving in Sanliurfa

The Mosque in Kilis

Looking out to the horizon from the mountains in Vaikifle

Fishermen in Istanbul

Driving west, then north out of Antakya

More dolmush rides

Early morning walk to go to the Istanbul airport.

Looking off into the mountains from Antakya

Street food in Adana

Local schoolkids clamoring to say hello to us in Kilis

Talking to the hotel staff in Adana

Green spices at the market in Antakya

The cave restaurant in Sanliurfa

The archway and observation tower in Harran

Kirk negotiation for homegrown tobacco in Sanliurfa

The ruins of St. Simeon

Evening in Sanliurfa

Sundown in Yesemek, Turkey

Taxsim Square, Istanbul

An orange vendor in Harran

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

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

Steph standing on the beach

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Israel Photos Slide Show on Flickr