Tuesday 29 June 2010

Photographs from OBA Cafe At the Bosphorus

http://www.obarestoran.com/
OBA Baltalimanı, Cafe

I was there this Sunday, and I took some photographs from there, in this link (above) you will see it is written "360", first floor(kat 1) and second floor (kat 2) and also night (gece) and gündüz (day) photographs, if you wish you can visit and see much more,

I took the pictures on the second floor (kat 2) and I almost forgot myself while I was watching the ships that were coming from the Black Sea... On the photographs what is seen cross side is in Anatolian side...

From The Bosphorus Bridge

These are all taken from the first Bosphorus Bridge, while I was on the road by car. Actually it is forbidden to stop, so it wasn't easy to take pictures but these are the best one that I selected. All these views are going to the Black Sea and and also you can see both sides of Istanbul, in the left, European side and in the right, Anatolian side. And also the second Bopshorus Bridge is seen...

Friday 25 June 2010

Thursday 24 June 2010

Gloomy Day!



There is a heavy weather today, like a leaden sky. Everything is so touching this morning…. And I don’t like June, but innoncent all these months, even summer!

We collect so many things in our minds with words and imaginaries and most of them how crowded and how painful… Happiness actually, always flies away, like volatile… Every happiness leaves a sorrow behind its while it was being past! Everything flows and runs, and not comes back… What kind of deception this is, we try to solace ourselves. I know, I am too pessimist today. But I told you, it is because of this June! I said good-bye to all my friends, who I believed that they were my friends. I am tired, so tired and so broken too in this language. Between "must" and "should" and also between "to thank" and "silence" there were so clear messages....

The islands under the gloomy clouds
A Navy ship standing at the edge between the dark shadows and the sun
Today is the day to long the blue;
blue is the life; blue is the freedom; blue is the human in us...


*****

Havada kurşun gibi bir ağırlık var. Her şey çok dokunaklı bu sabah... Şu Haziran'ı hiç sevmiyorum,

oysa ne günahı var ayların, hele ki, yazın! Sözcükler ve imgelerle dolu yaşamlarımızda bir çok şey biriktiyoruz zihnimizde, ve ne çok fazlalık ve ne çok acı veren... Mutluluk hep uçucu... ve her mutluluk arkasında bir hüzün bırakıyor uzaklaşırken... hiç bir şey geri dönmemek üzere akıp gidiyor hayatımızdan... nasıl bir aldatmaca içinde kendimizi avutuyoruz. Biliyorum çok karamsarım bugün! Dedim ya herşey bu Haziran yüzünden!

Adalar kasvetli bulutların altında... Donanmanın bir gemisi tam sınır çizgisinde kara gölgelerle güneşin... Bugün maviyi özleme günü; mavi hayat, mavi özgürlük, mavi içimizdeki insan!

Veda ettim bugün bütün dost bildiklerime...

Sunday 20 June 2010

How I wished to know their stories

Should be a story of them... but mostly we don't know. How touching... I thought of this today. We are, human how great creature that we are able to express and to write our stories... and also their stories too. At the beginning of our walking on the street, we noticed this sleepy cat on this bank. And I took her pictures... Then we went on to walk... Probably we walked for more than one hour, and also we had dinner too, so when we came back again where we started (because of our car), ah, I couldn't believe, this cat was still like that, looking down the bank without leaving it... Because there was a young couple and they wanted to touch and to give something to eat for her, but she didn't leave this bank. How I wanted to know her story... Should be something. How touched me. As if she/he was waiting for someone maybe never would come back again... ah, crazy Nia, ah emotional one.... Ah! How I wished to know their stories.... 

It was amazing!

How nice to find them in the city... we were walking down the street and then these cherry and walnut trees hit me. I remembered my childhood days again... I lived and grew up under these trees, sometimes I climbed for pick up some fruits too!

Yesterday In The City

At the Bosphorus Bridge from the car I took this picture. It is Anatolian side and we are crossing the other side.  One of old houses in the Bosphorus. The bus-stop, the girl and this Bosphorus, they all hit me.Ah, these advertisments... They are amazing. This is another bus-stop!

Wednesday 16 June 2010

My Little Garden

From My Kitchen

One of my old tiny things from my childhood days, it was a gift from Germany. Written on there "Heute blau und morgen blau and übermorgen wieder"... It is a funny words, says that "today blue, and tomorrow blue and forever blue..."

It was a boring afternoon and I wanted to do something with my camera at home! Then these photographs appeared in all others that I took in the kitchen.

Tuesday 15 June 2010

Thank You, My Dear Friend!

Thank you my dear friend Trevor for this beautiful poem. By the inspiration of my violets, his beautiful poetical touches dropped... I'm honored by this beautiful gift.

Saturday 12 June 2010

Wednesday 9 June 2010

Photograph(N)ia

It was raining in the city!

The next day, sunday, ah! How badly rained and all programs were cancelled. Especially children were so sad because there was a little concert of them at the foothill of the Galata Tower for the Galata Festival. But they played in the studio just for their parents... :) It was raining in the city this weekend.  The first bridge of the Bosphorus... traffic was not too bad!Ah, is there love in the air :) There are some crazy people like me.... Under the rain they are going with their open car! Ah, my dear love, what can he do with me:) Because, for me he can't see well while he is driving his car, because of my photography! I wanted to take raindrops' pictures...In this dark and cloudy day how beautifully touches this big red ball!!!! I love these kind of things. :)There is another crazy one, under the rain... Ah, these people,...