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Looking up at the top of Taksim Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. Taken with a Canon 5D4 and a 50mm lens. The focus being on the tri-coloured flags with the Mosque behind.
It can take several days to put all of the elements together... finding the right shooting location, getting the timing right, and having the right weather.
June 2014: I replaced the field edit I produced using Lightroom 2 on a tiny laptop screen with one done on a desktop using Lightroom 5... world of difference!
There are dozens of tombs cut into the rock here at Lake Bafa in Western Turkey. You can see two more in this photo down by the water to the right, and there were more on the rock island. The ones which still have heavy rock lids have the lids askew, to show that any contents were removed long ago by treasure hunters.
Update June 2014: I've replaced the image with a larger and more recent edit.
Tuz Golu. Lake Salt. Second largest lake in Turkey. Incredible reflections on the hyper-saline lake. Panorama created from 21 separate images.
The ancient theatre atop the mountains near Ağlasun. Area has been settled since Hittite times and was once known as the first city of Psidia. This area is famous for the battle that was fought on top of the hill in the centre of the image, against the army of Alexander.
The area was devastated by an earthquake in 518AD.
Pano is created from 12 images stitched together in PS. Black and white effect created with Nik Software.
Under the ancient city of Smyrna. With the modern city of Izmir now growing above the remains of this city.
How many people have walked across these stones??
Walkway inside the Hagia Sophia. A former Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal cathedral, later an Ottoman imperial mosque and now a museum. Built in 537AD and the largest building of its time. Still an amazing piece of architecture.
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The heads of Heracles and an Eagle are just part of the ruins on Mount Nemrut. Mt Nemrut is a 7000 foot high mountain with a first century tomb constructed at its peak. In 62 BCE, King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene, built on the mountain top a tomb-sanctuary flanked by huge statues 8–9-metre high of himself, two lions, two eagles and various Greek, Armenian, and Persian gods. The statues are in various stages of decay and dis-repair.
Ruins of the ancient city of Arykanda. A Lycian city founded in the 5th century BC. Perched high on a mountaintop. Located near the small village of Aykiriçay. Survived until Byzantine times when the city moved south to a new location.
Lycian tombs carved from the rocks in the ancient city of Tlos. The city had been occupied from the time of the Hittites. Various ruins from Lycian, Hellenistic, Roman and Ottoman periods litter the hillside location.