The reason for this website
On this site I show a few pictures taken on my many trips to Turkey, Syria and Italy. But I mainly answer questions that cropped up with viewers of my pictures on the site (see top left).
The reason for my sites
I started the Turkey site (on May 9th 2004) because I always would take pictures when abroad and from some trips would return with 800 or even 1000 slides. Those slides were just sitting in my home. Some friends and my parents would see them, and then the pictures would wait for years, for what? I wanted to go digital, and for starters scanned some slides of Istanbul. When I put them on the web I learned that people liked them, so I added some, and then some more. By now I work with professional digital Nikon equipment and know a bit about Photoshop and all that.
What happened since I started the site
- I find people really like my site, so I try to add some elements that are not always my first interest, but give some extra flavour. Though people complain I only take pictures of old buildings, my series about modern buildings is growing. And though the high street in Mush is not a photographers dream, for the locals, or the people who were born there, it’s nice, and it doesn’t cost me more than a few cents to publish it.
- Over the years I have “published” a great many pictures, and increasingly got involved in other peoples' publications. See "Me in print".
- In 2009 I started another, Syria related, site. A country I have so far visited thrice, as a result the site has a decent size.
- And beginning May 2010 I started publishing from my massive archive of slides about Italy. I have not taken fresh pictures there for almost twenty years, but I "have" most of the major sights of much of that country. Of course I start in Rome, but we'll get to the Mezzogiorno eventually, and Sicily.