Last shots from Turkey

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Last shots from Turkey

Postby Ordek Avci » Thu May 29, 2008 4:03 pm

Hey guys, I fly out of here Saturday morning after almost 2 full years. I have to admit that I'm really pumped about being back in the States, but even as I type this I have tears in my eyes over leaving. After this long, it's hard to know whether I'm coming home or leaving home. Anyhow, enjoy a sampling from the last three rolls I took here.

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A guy we call Junior (because of how short he is) in my barber shop.

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Street scene from here in town.

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The kid with the flag is heading off to do his mandatory military service. Everybody gets a big farewell party when they're called up.

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Either drunk, homeless, or both, early one morning outside of the train station.

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This area is for the washings the devout do before they go to pray. This particular mosque was once a church built by the Crusaders. This washing station is actually in part of a tunnel that was once used as an escape route from the church.

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Prayer beads on the floor of a mosque.

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Outside of Tarsus- a section of the old Roman road still remains. This is the road that you would've walked if you came from Rome or Constantinople to Tarsus, meaning that St. Paul, Barnabas, Luke, Mark, Marc Anthony, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, and countless others walked this path.

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The national past time, backgammon.

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The side of an ancient Roman sarcophagus in the Antioch museum.

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Bust of someone goofy looking, also in Antioch.

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One of these things is not like the others, one of these things doesn't belong...

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This throne looking thing was dated pre-Christ, yet you can still just walk up and get your picture sitting on it.

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One of the many mosaics held in the Antioch museum.

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The door of the Orthodox church in Antioch.

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Me, overlooking the city of Antioch. Would've been better if I had been silhouetted against the sky I think, but I wasn't the one in control of that, obviously.

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Mardin- southeast Turkey, near the Syrian border.

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This mosque had prayer beads hanging in waiting. It also had a cast of Mohammed's footprint, for what that's worth.

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Inside the visitor center of an ancient monastery outside of Mardin.

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Re: Last shots from Turkey

Postby hotty toddy » Thu May 29, 2008 4:52 pm

Excellent, it is nice to get a view of another world and how the people there live.

Great pictures
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Re: Last shots from Turkey

Postby olemissduckhunter » Thu May 29, 2008 5:09 pm

awesome photos
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Re: Last shots from Turkey

Postby Blackduck » Thu May 29, 2008 7:06 pm

really talented pics.
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Re: Last shots from Turkey

Postby mudsucker » Thu May 29, 2008 7:32 pm

Nice shots!
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Re: Last shots from Turkey

Postby Tedl10 » Thu May 29, 2008 7:42 pm

Great stuff. :wink:
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Re: Last shots from Turkey

Postby cajun squealer » Thu May 29, 2008 10:21 pm

Those are great, Chris. The sheer simplicity of black and white lend to an inexplicable complexity in capturing moments such as those. Very nice work! :D
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Re: Last shots from Turkey

Postby lipsplitter39654 » Fri May 30, 2008 5:40 am

very nice powerful
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Re: Last shots from Turkey

Postby pitboss » Fri May 30, 2008 6:07 am

very nice... i enjoy the black and whites!

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Re: Last shots from Turkey

Postby tombstone » Fri May 30, 2008 7:40 am

Thank you for posting those. It is a part of the world I will never see. They were very enlightning. I liked the black and white also!
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Postby rustypjr » Fri May 30, 2008 7:45 am

nice. Love the Roman road one. Such great men have walked on those very stones. I would love to go over and see all of that one day.
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Postby BAY KINGFISHER » Fri May 30, 2008 8:09 am

great picts, funny thing is down here since the storm an old gutted out building from the 40's( that wasnt even being used prior to Katrina) will be considered historical so they wont tear it down, well I wish our historical society would take note of these picts. cause this is real history!!!!
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Postby cwink » Fri May 30, 2008 8:32 am

Man those are great..
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Re: Last shots from Turkey

Postby XDSSCOUTSWIFE » Fri May 30, 2008 8:47 am

Awesome pics...thanks for sharing...it is obvious through your pictures you have captured your feelings for the culture and city. Congrats on coming home though.... :D
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Re: Last shots from Turkey

Postby JaMak84 » Fri May 30, 2008 9:42 am

The background of the picture of Mardin looks like ag fields, is that what they are?
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