Turkey (part 1)

[mistress_elaine]

I've given the matter some thought, here's what I'll be doing with this journal in the next few weeks. For the next week or so I'll be posting small parts of my Turkey travelogue. I was originally going to post the whole thing in one or two instalments, but on second thoughts, it seems better to divide it into bite-size chunks. I'll try to add a

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[cosmiccircus]

Well it sounds like, 1) you need a vacation from the week at home, and 2) that the trip wasn't too bad, which is nice.

And I love the photos, but I really love the road photo!

[mistress_elaine]

(1) Yep. Quite. Sadly, the break will have to wait one more day, as I just got a phone call from one of my publishers, who wanted to know if I wished to make any changes to a previous translation which is getting reprinted, and if so, whether I could please submit the changes by tomorrow morning. So I guess I'll spend the day re-reading an old translation. And here I was thinking I'd take a break from translating for a while...

(2) Not bad at all. Quite good, really, which is indeed nice.

I'm glad you like the pics. Thanks! :-)

[blackannis238]

I'm SO sorry to hear about your photos. Once was bad enough, but twice? That's just not fair, especially for someone as talented as you. :(

That being said, I'm glad you have something to salvage, and that not all was in vain. I've been really looking forward to you coming back! I'll be tuning in with interest! :D

[mistress_elaine]

Aw, thanks, Sam. What an awfully nice thing to say. Thankfully, I'm beginning to get used to losing part or all of my holiday photos. This wasn't the second time it happened; I think it was the fourth. I hope it will also be the last. I'm getting rather fed up with it. :-)

I think I have some nice pictures coming up for you: ancient cemeteries, both Turkish and German. Yeah, baby!

[papayas]

i'm glad you enjoyed your trip, despite the small obstacles that came up. i can't wait to read more about your trip and see more photos.

[mistress_elaine]

Thanks again, Pei. I hope the stories and pictures will be worth your attention. :-)

[miltonmalone]

Glad to see you again here in LJ-land. :)

[Looking forward to seeing more of your travel photos (and accompanying stories too :-) ).]

[mistress_elaine]

Thank you, Constantine. It's good to be back. I look forward to seeing more Alaska photos, too! (Surely you must have had something resembling a summer by now...?)

[miltonmalone]

We have autumn here already. Everything around is in yellow, green, red, brown and orange... Add some blue sky and you have quite a palette. =) Looks gorgeous.

It's getting colder already too.

I'll develop two rolls of Velvia in a couple weeks, so some pictures are to come. =) Intertwined with more pinhole weirdness every once in a while, of course. :-)

[mistress_elaine]

Everything around is in yellow, green, red, brown and orange...

Sounds rather like Turkey, except that it probably looks completely different. There are autumn colours and then there are autumn colours...

I look forward to seeing the Velvia shots (are they going to cross-processed?). Pinhole weirdness is good, too, so bring it on!

[universalist]

I am growing fond of powerlines. I fundamentally agree with you, just that somehow, I can find some sort of interest in them... since they are already there.

I am not sure that I could tolerate 50º weather. We skipped Palm Springs on a weekend that got to 48, and went on one that got to 42, and that was not tolerable -- even though it is a "dry heat."

[mistress_elaine]

I like powerlines as a subject in themselves. When they form a nice geometrical pattern, for instance, they can be quite photogenic. When they ruin other views, though, I hate them. And in Turkey they did just that. In a really big and annoying way