Balloons over Meskendir Valley

Cappadocia – home to the fairy chimneys and cave houses of Central Anatolia.

I would so go back and do it again, if I could get sponsors for my next ride that is…

A leader’s words

Contemplating Atatürk’s last message to the Turkish army.

Solemnity

When the national anthem plays at the Atatürk mausoleum.

Collapse.

“Let’s go home kiddo.”

“And watch your step!”

 If I could, I would…
…move slightly to the left, and isolate the running boy at the centre of the frame. The mom-and-daughter pair could be placed at the far left.

Valour

Arete – personification of valour, stands at the restored facade of the Celsus library.

“Look at my spinning top!”

“Look at my spinning top” says the street seller boy, cold-shoudered by the tourists at what used to be the Hippodrome of Constantinople.

If I could, I would…
…avoid cropping this photo as much as I did. I should’ve got closer, and lower; moved to the left and got a better view of what the tourists were doing – which was talking among themselves and not paying the boy any attention.