Photo Album
Panoramic Pictures - Turkey
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| This is the city
of Ankara seen from the walls of the old part looking across in a westerly
direction to the urban sprawl. The thoroughly modern boulevards that
Ataturk had designed and built are off to the left and lead to the
southern edge of the city where TRT has it's huge, bold headquarters. This
picture serves to show the somewhat shambolic and uncontrolled way that
Ankara grew in it's rapid expansion from 30,000 to 3 million in less than
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By way of a change, this was
the view from my room in TRT's magnificent accommodation in Ankara,
Turkey, where I spent quite a lot of time earlier last year. This picture
was taken in April, I was there from late January and saw the many wintry
moods of those hills to the south: you are looking at central Anatolia, a
pretty inhospitable set of mountains between Ankara and the softer, warmer
Mediterranean coast. |
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Same view,
different time. this was taken in January and is clearly a wintry prospect
with snow on the distant hills, and temperatures going down to -10 each
night. Good central heating in my room, though! |
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This is Aya Sofya,
formerly the worlds largest domed Christian Church. One of the unmissable
sights of Istanbul. |
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The waterfront in
Istanbul is a photographers dream, with much to entice profligate use of
film. This is a montage made of 4 digital images. So no profligate film
use there, then.
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| And this is the River
Bosphorous in Istanbul. On the extreme left, and on the extreme right you
can see the two road bridges that link Europe with Asia. If you think they
look a lot like our own Severn bridge linking England and Wales, then
that's because they are! The contractors were the very same ones, so I am
told.
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There are more non panoramic pictures of Turkey if
you click here |
or other panoramics below
            
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