Turkey travel photos

[bruce g. collier]

Hi All,

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Just finished posting a gallery of travel photos from a recent trip to

Turkey. Destinations included Istanbul, Cappadocia, Ephesus, Termessos,

Dogubayazit, Van, Nemrut, and a host of others.

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Images are primarily medium-format, but there are a number of large-format

(4x5) shots as well. The following link is a sample, but if you are

interested in further exploration, you can use the pull-down on the left

labeled 'Turkey', and navigate from there. The 'all' gallery is subject-

ordered, but extremely large.

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<a

href="http://www.brucegcollier.com/galleries/turkey/level2_sample.htm"><b>Turke

y Images</b></a>

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I welcome your valuable feedback.

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What a fantastic country.

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Regards, Bruce

[stephen_w.]

Nice photos. I cannot give you feedback, as I cannot find fault. I love ruins. Have you been to Angkor Wat? Many of your Thailand ruins shots look Khmer (Hindu) origin.

[bruce g. collier]

Thanks, Stephen. No, have never been to Cambodia but it is high on my list. The ruins you reference are from the Isan province of eastern Thailand which has a number of Great Khmer ruins along the border with Cambodia.

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Regards, Bruce

[alberto_c]

Great Turkey portfolio, Bruce. I like the most the pictures on Nemrut Dagi, but the overall quality is fantastic. Sultan Ahmet Camii (until now known to me as Blue Mosque) looks beautiful, too.

 

I have to plan a trip there, you made grow my envy.

 

BW pictures, though, show heavy posterization, like the sky in

 

Ishak Pasa Palace #5, Dogubayazit, 2006 (http://www.brucegcollier.com/images/images_turkey/061011b6703_02.JPG)

 

I guess that the scanner had colour depth enough for color images but not for BW ones.

[bruce g. collier]

Thanks, Alberto, for checking the site out and especially the comments.

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Regarding the posterization, the scans are actually good - it's the jpeg conversion that causes that. I try to balance the quality vs. the file size (load time), but I don't always strike it.

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Bruce

[bruce g. collier]

Try it now. I re-jpeg'd the most offending images. Larger file sizes, but better quality overall. Thanks for the input.

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[alberto_c]

Now that's much better. It's a shame that you keep your quality standard so high, as the complete galleries take a hard time to load.

 

All of your galleries are a huge pleasure to see.

[patricklove]

Hey Bruce,

You really did cover a lot of ground. I wanted to get out to Dogubeyazit on my last trip, but had to head back west after Van. It was early March and there was a lot of snow. I'm particularly impressed that you hauled medium and large format gear around.