Very nice day today. Jacket, T-Shirt, Jeans kind of day. Keston and I walked from Uchisar through Goreme Valley to Goreme town, had tea at a merchant in the middle of no where inside the valley, got to Goreme and had some lunch, smoked some Nargile, and caught the bus back up to Uchisar. I mostly shot the Hasselblad + 50/f4 Distagon but snapped a few with the Leica M8 + 35/f2 Summicron for the blog.

Winding down the night with some french press coffee, forgot the type of coffee, and mapping out a project me and Keston are working on. Can't say though, for now, it's a secret! And it's not a photography project.

Leica M8 + 35/f2 Summicron

Keston and I took a hike around the mountains here in Uchisar, Cappadocia. We were accompanied by some random dogs who seemed to make sure we were okay and wanted to keep the wild wolves away from us.

Leica M8 + 35/f2 Summicron

Took a stroll around Uchisar today on the way to the our cave friend, Hasan. His shop is in a cave, and he sells many fine turkish items. Snow is still here, but it’s getting a little warmer. My feet get cold very fast.

Leica M8 + 35/f2 Summicron.

They say March is very unpredictable here. Three days ago it was sunny, now it’s snowing!

Today we went south to Nevsehir(in Cappadocia) and visited Derinkuyu to explore the underground christian city.

Amazing amazing experience. It was very cold and very dark, with lights on the basic path or pitch black if you wanted to head through other tunnels.

I’ll have more up later, but for now..

Taken with a Leica M8 + 35/f2 Summicron

Just arrived in Cappadocia this morning and it’s absolutely beautiful. I’ll be here for the next week so look for updates.

For now, feast on these photos:

Taken with a Leica M8 and Elmarit-Asph.

the view(click to see bigger)

the place we’re staying at

keston

lunch

the upper part of where we are staying.

entrance to our room

Not much time right now to write a detailed post, so I’ll throw in a few photos and make this quick.

This was the last 4 days in as little photos as possible until I have time to sort them out.

note: these are all shot with my blackberry or taken by zach, my film wont be up until i get back.

these next photos were taken by Zach.

Ran around Istanbul today, got most of the tourist stuff out of the way.  Had lots of tea.  Walked several miles around the city.  Cold and rainy, felt good. Efes(turkish beer), and Hookah during the night.

Cell phone photos will have to do since I’m only shooting film on this trip.

Just some film I’m bringing on the trip to Turkey.

ETA < 24h

Catching up on a lot of old negatives and rolls from years ago.

Two of my friends got married in 2006 and I snapped some photos with my hassy. Not much of my style, but weddings do look amazing on real bw film. Click them to see bigger size.