Effesus
Effesus: professional puzzle solvers.
Relief after a scare. Ask Karin.
Effesus: He didn't attract much of a crowd.
Old church dedicated to the Virgin. She apparently died nearby.
Speaks for itself.
Baptismal font. Dramatization.
Stork. They were everywhere in Selchuk
The Turkish military had a significant presence in every town we visited.
This canyon place near Fethiye
Cold, cold water.
This canyon place near Fethiye.
Vulcan. First mate on the Albatross.
Dozing in very good light.
Me.
Swimming in the Med.
The crew.
The boat.
Karin actually looking kindof tall.
The boat from a tomb carved into this cliff.
Said cliff tomb.
Dramatization.
Cleopatra's Bath.
Moi.
Backgammon. An obsession.
The chimera.
Olympos.
Butterfly.
Konya (I think).
Thought this was neat.
Sarcophagus of the poet-founder of the Dervish order.
I like the ladies in the background.
Capadoccia
Moria.
Capadoccia continued.
Lunch with young and old Australian couples.
Lunch.
Capadoccia.
Capadoccia. Shadow shaped like a scorpion. Sortof.
Awesome contrasts in light. I think this is my favourite self-portrait so far.
Capadoccia. Is it just me or do I look weirdly like Bjork in this picture?
Yonic a bit? I think it's cool though.
Refuge.
Emerging from refuge.
Moody eh?
Moody eh?2
2 seconds befor there was a goat sticking its head out from between the bars. It didn't come back.
Chickens and their shadows.
Motor scooters!
Motor scooters! Dramatization of what it would have been like if Brent had driven.
Protest in Kayseri.
Protest in Kayseri. Political tension was high in May.
Kayseri.
Giraffe.
Hammam. Never been cleaner.
Our Kayserian friend. An hour after he traumatized us with a PETA video.
Nemrut Dagi
Around Nemrut Dagi.
Urfa.
Our Urfan friends. The one on the left was in love with Karin.
Approaching the cave where Abraham was apparently born.
The cave in question was beyond that door.
Holy fish.
Leaving Urfa for a day trip.
Best friends forever.
Karin and the ruins of the oldest mosque in Turkey. I think it as built in the 700s.
It was very hot.
Beehive houses.
IN a complex of beehive houses.
Really crappy hotel room. It smelled like crap and the sheets all had stains on them. The paint was rather festive though.
Melnik.
Best archeological site on the trip (possible exception being the Great Wall). Will be flooded and partially destroyed by a planned dam of the Tigris to open in a couple of years.
Tigris.
Me and the Tigris.
Me with a penis sticking out of my head.
Brent, Karin and the Tigris.
We really got off on the Tigris.
More poses with the Tigris.
Pretty picture.
The Tigris again.
A goose.
Boat to thousand year old Armenian church.
Island with thousand year old Armenian church.
Inside the thousand year old Armenian church.
Outside the thousand year old Armenian church.
Outside the thousand year old Armenian church. Cool old guy with a cigarette
Turtle being pestered by the Kurds. Much like the Turkish government.
View over lake Van.
Bluff overlooking lake Van.
Our adoptive soccer team.
Impromptu dance party on the boat in the rain.
Hippy Kurd guy and his creepy friends.
Cool hippy artist Kurd guy.
Dogubaezit (sp?)
One of my favourite captures. a
One of my favourite captures. b
Approaching Ararat.
Ominous sign.
Little boy in Kurdish village we were stuck in.
Little girl in Kurdish village we were stuck in.
Karin on her way back from peeing.
Stuck: A photoessay
Kurdish family.
Ararat emerges!!!
Ararat!!!!
Another fav.
Stuck: A photo essay.
Free! Small Ararat visible through windshield.
Iranian border.
Leaving Iranian border.
Rainbow.
Camping out in the airport.
St. Pete
Graveyard in St. Pete
Dostoevsky!!!
Engraved Pushkin poem in Hermitage.
1812 room.
Bear cub. Worry about his future.
Blazing cross.
