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