And!
BY DENIZ, 30 July 2010

What sweet flowers adorn your path?  I hope - more than whatever they are - that they do.

istanbul
Ligor!
Jolt
Do Re Mi
Puffy
Dynamic
Knots
Rain
Brace
Kitties
squares
Individuality
Apparently…
Dizzying
Patchwork
A Grid
Newness
Milk Toast?
flowers
Flexibility
Hydrangea
Bright
Recycled
Roses
Stunner
BY DENIZ, 29 July 2010

One day a couple of weeks ago I went looking for the grave of Donizetti's brother Guiseppe.  Apparently he lived an incredibly prosperous life as a court composer in Istanbul.  As I neared my elusive destination - all I got to see were the tops of a very lush garden protected by Vatican walls - I came across a building with the most spectacular window!  When I saw it I gasped.  Because here was a truly great example of - well, decomposition.
istanbul
Vegetables
Minarets
Dolmuş
Decrepit
Sensational
Armenian Church
Rakı
Crowds
Weird
crumbling
Derelict
Curiosity
Decrepit
Graveyard
Drab
Familiar
Crusty
Walls
Swerve
music
Reminiscing
Recording
Musical
Finder’s, keepers
Golden
Zooming
Elvis
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Graveyard
BY DENIZ, 28 July 2010

This cemetery does not look it, but it is located in one of the most exclusive areas in Istanbul, in Maçka (pronounced Match-ka).  Only a few hundred yards from Armani and Hermes, this place quietly holds its Ottoman secrets, not to mention a whole bunch of straggly cats, hiding in the dense green.
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crumbling
Swerve
Derelict
Familiar
Crusty
Decrepit
Stunner
Walls
Drab
Curiosity
ottoman
Stripes
Mysterious
Palace
Fringe
Minarets
Üsküdar
Decrepit
Lace
Spooked
cat
Overloaded
Do Re Mi
Ligor!
Spooked
Toothless
The Ubiquitous
Kitties
Shuteye
Lazily
Weird
BY DENIZ, 27 July 2010

Okay, so there are these trees in Maçka that look like they are made of camouflage combat gear.  It's the peeling bark that creates the pattern, but I don't know much else about it.
istanbul
Kitties
Bright
Drab
Rights
Choices
Alaaddin’s
Familiar
Snapshot
Spooked
trees
Gnarly
Soaring
Palace
Go West
Ablaze
Roots
Serendipitous
BY DENIZ, 26 July 2010

I absolutely love this.  Here's a billboard for a brand of headscarves in Taksim Square that boasts a woman who appears to be gazing lovingly at - a bunch of banners that belong to a leftist party, of all things.  Ah, Istanbul!
istanbul
Spooked
Equation
Overloaded
Minarets
Primary
Patchwork
Ligor!
Adventure
The Ubiquitous
politics
Sensational
Rain
BY DENIZ, 25 July 2010

When it's pouring outside, I love getting the chance to snap random pictures from the back of a cab.  Here is Sourp Krikor Lousavoritch [St. Gregory the Enlightener] Armenian Orthodox Church - on the main drag in Karaköy.  With all of its classical architectural splendor, it's still too huge to be forgotten.  And the smudging from the window enhances its mystique I think.

(You can click on the photo to see more detail)
istanbul
Market
Tea
Massive
Crossing
Üsküdar
Shuteye
Armenian Church
Ubiquitous
Afterlife
cabrides
More
Snapshot
Zooming
Minarets
churches
Window
Possibilities
Angel
Armenian Church
A blurrr
Aha!
BY DENIZ, 24 July 2010

Well, I'm not sure what ancient monument this is, but it's positively drowning in what is going on all around it - that's the old Divan Hotel being rebuilt in the background.   And the sounds that accompanied this scene - jack hammers, honking horns - not tranquil, to say the least!
istanbul
Seaside
Sensational
Rakı
Rights
Tea
Market
Üsküdar
Luminescence
Drab
byzantine
Encounter
Jam
Perching
Context
Market
Massive
contrast
Confucius
Jumble
Reflections
Familiar
Market
Cultures
Context
Window
COMMENTS (1)
by Elizabeth , July 24, 2010
looks pretty damn noisy to me! Love your son below. Very American ambience!
Ubiquitous
BY DENIZ, 20 July 2010

It's truly weird to see what is familiar in places that are nowhere near home.  So when my foster son came for a visit from Southeastern Turkey a few days ago, we headed straight for the malls so he could get a full blast of the West.  And even though he wasn't so thrilled with Starbucks' raspberry tea/slush something-or-other, it was wonderful to be able to show him that the environment and the experience was exactly the same as back in the States. 

istanbul
Spooked
Afterlife
Kitties
Layers
Equation
Study in Red
Metro
Domes
Seaside
ahmet
Love!
drink
Tea
Iced!
Choices
Rakı
Jolt
Study in Red
BY DENIZ, 19 July 2010

There's a gorgeous old door at the center of this shot, flanked by a real estate agency on the left and a fast food place on the right.  Apparently called Pasha, the menu boasts an offering of roasted intestines on bread, or fried mussels if you prefer seafood.  For perhaps unconsciously patriotic reasons most everything is color coordinated here, including the door number.  Oh, and that's a lotto ticket seller walking by.


istanbul
Sensational
Fringe
Primary
Bright
Minarets
Seaside
Ubiquitous
Rights
Domes
Walls
BY DENIZ, 18 July 2010

There are so many of them here in Istanbul - and almost every one of them interesting -

istanbul
Armenian Church
Frenzy
Hydrangea
Decrepit
Luminescence
Study in Red
Domes
Opera Anyone?
Sensational
crumbling
Familiar
Curiosity
Decrepit
Drab
Stunner
Derelict
Swerve
Graveyard
Crusty
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