street cafe at Beyoğlu

Beyoğlu-İstanbul, pentax k5, photos by ozgur ozkok

Night walks

Beyoğlu-İstanbul, pentax k10d, photos by ozgur ozkok

Ciragan Palace

Çırağan Sarayı, Ciragan Palace, Ortaköy-Istanbul, pentax k10d , by ozgur ozkok

The palace, built by Sultan Abdülâziz, was designed by the famous palace architect Nigoğayos Balyan and constructed by his sons Sarkis and Hagop Balyan between 1863 and 1867. This was a period in which all Ottoman sultans used to build their own palaces rather than using those of their ancestors. Çırağan Palace is the last example of this period. The inner walls and the roof were made of wood, the outer walls of colorful marble. The palace is connected with a beautiful marble bridge to the Yıldız Palace on the hill behind. A very high garden wall protects the palace from the outer world.

Do not wait, surrender For the sake of Love.

Istanbul Haydarpasa, by ozgur ozkok , pentax k10d + tamron 28-75/2.8

Looking at my life
I see that only Love
Has been my soul’s companion
From deep inside

Galata Koprusu, Yeni Camii

Istanbul, New Mosque and Galata Bridge, Yeni Camii ve Galata Köprüsü, Pentax k10d, by ozgur ozkok

colorful nights of Assos

Assos-Behramkale, Canakkale, Turkey-Turkiye , pentax kx, by ozgur ozkok

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Assos-Behramkale, Canakkale, Turkey-Turkiye , pentax kx, by ozgur ozkok

Üsküdar, Şemşipaşa region

Pentax K10D, at Istanbul

city lights and fisher family

Moda shores, fisher family in sunset

 

Soldier of fortune

I have often told you stories
About the way
I lived the life of a drifter
Waiting for the day
When Id take your hand
And sing you songs
Then maybe you would say
Come lay with me love me
And I would surely stay

But I feel Im growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill goin round
I guess Ill always be
A soldier of fortune

Many times Ive been a traveller
I looked for something new
In days of old
When nights were cold
I wandered without you
But those days I thougt my eyes
Had seen you standing near
Though blindness is confusing
It shows that youre not here

Now I feel Im growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill goin round
I guess Ill always be
A soldier of fortune
Yes, I can hear the sound
Of a windmill goin round
I guess Ill always be
A soldier of fortune
Deep Purple, long live …

Üsküdar shores

 

 

Üsküdar and bosphorus

mosque on Bosphorus

Şemsi Ahmet Paşa Camii, Üsküdar, İstanbul, Pentax K10d