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| They acquired some Egyptian stuff as well, and it's in the main square next to the blue mosque. |
| The Marco Polo, taking on new passengers |
| The men are all standing up after having done the prayer towards Mecca. This is in the Bazaar. I saw the line too late, a few seconds before they had been kneeling on the ground praying. Frankly, this was a rare sight. Istanbul is pretty secular. |
| The row of Islamic tombstones |
| A shot from the ferry of part of the Bosphorus |
| Chefs in a small Turkish diner tend to a grease fire cooking our meal. I just liked the look of this scene. |
| In the cistern, some of the pillars had been recycled from other buildings by the Romans. |
| Everybody takes ferries in Istanbul. Here two ferries dock at the same dock by having one ferry dock against the other. They synchronize them well. You get to the outer one by walking through the first. |
| A shot of the minarets of the blue mosque |
| The entrance to the gaudiest palace in history. The builder wanted to spend more than any other European royal. He spent it all on tacky gilt. Cameras were not allowed inside. |
| It was a cloudy day at the Mosque, so what else to shoot but the graveyard, with a solitaire rose. |
| Another interesting shot of the blue mosque at sunset] |
| A great shot (taken with my point and shoot!) of the giant Roman cistern under Istanbul. They only discovered it recently when they had some people report they could fish from the basements. Now tourists can go inside it. |
| The day we arrived there was a strike going on. We drove through a labour protest. Turkey is pretty mixed up, politically. 2 days after we left they had the first earthquake. It did not surprise me to see how badly it hurt the country. |
| Inside the Blue Mosque. It used to be more blue, we are told. |
| Another shot inside the Blue Mosque. The lights were down so low so they could be maintained when they were fire instead of electricity. |
| A rotunda outside Topkapi palace |
| A nice shot of a mosque with flowers outside the University |
| More inside the Hagia St. Sophia |
| More mosaics, with the plaster removed. |
| Another lovely shot of the cistern. The lights are dim, these are all time exposures. |
| More of the Bazaar. |
| Part of my Istanbul at night panorama. The old city. |
| An early Christian mosaic. Painting was forbidden so they made incredibly complex works using mosaics. |
| K, poses by the Hagia St. Sophia, a 4th century church that became a mosque and is now a museum. |
| Inside the Hagia St. Sophia. Some of the Christian paintings have been restored. The Muslims had plastered over them, which thrills the historians because they preserved them. The name of Allah is written. Pictures are forbidden but writing is not. |
| The Bazaar has 2000 shops but really only 5. It's the original shopping mall, I guess. Rugs, Jewels, Clothes, Turkish Delight and Pottery/Gourds. Oh yes, and an Internet Cafe |
