Last Sunday my Turkish digital photography companion and I went to watch one of the largest camel wrestling festivals in the area, at Yahsi-Ortakent. The New Year heralds the start of the camel-wrestling season in south west Turkey and this was the first festival of the season. Proud owners truck their charges around the country [...]
We have been having an extremely wet winter here with the result that it looks more like Spring at the moment as there is so much new growth and so much green everywhere. Earlier this week I took these photos of a ruined building, a very green field, some tiny little arum lilies (about 6 [...]
Our most recent trip was round the fishing village of Yalikavak on a lovely warm autumn day. Interesting pattterns and textures: I like the way the restaurant umbrellas echo the shape of the mountains behind reflections Hibiscus flowers and my favourite – hibiscus mutabilis. So called because its flowers start off white when in bud [...]
Our next excursion, two weeks consecutively in fact because we were so taken with the place, took us to the abandoned Greek village of Sandima. Only two houses are occupied now. One by Osman, in his eighties and in search of someone to be wife number 3 (not all at once!) and Nuris who owns [...]
I recently joined a digital photography club. We started with 3 of us but now we are down to 2 as the other member has left for another job. So now the 2 of us go out regularly to photograph our surroundings and to encourage each other to get the best out of our digital [...]
