Lately I have been breaking off from my Cappadocia posts to write about other thoughts and my recent Bodrum trip. However last night, I started looking through photos so I can put together my last posts on the amazing region of Cappadocia.
Cappadocia had such an profound impact on me and visiting the area kicked off an interest in photography. I started snapping everything in sight from street cats to mosques to sunsets. Since then I have also been frantically signing up to every Facebook page that will give me further tips on photography.
To anyone that is visiting Cappadocia, I strongly recommend that you take your camera as you will see sights that are not available anywhere else in Turkey. Just think of the area as a photographer’s paradise.
While I still have quite a way to go before I am able to match photos from a lot of other bloggers, I still want to take part in sharing my photos. So below you will find my twenty favorite photos of Cappadocia. I hope you like.
I am also determined to carry on practising and improving my skills. If you can recommend any good resources for taking photos, then I would appreciate if you can list them below. Facebook pages, blogs, websites or books.
My Pictures of Cappadocia
Haci Bektas – Centre of the Alevi People Of Turkey
Taken at Panoramic View Point In Goreme
On the Walk Up To Goreme Open Air Museum
Goreme Open Air Museum
Taken from Panoramic View Point in Goreme
Uchisar – A Neighbouring Village Near Goreme
Cappadocia Hot air balloons
Goreme Open Air Museum
Cave House In Goreme
The Ilhara Walking Valley
A Fantastic Place To Sip A Cold Beer and Watch The Sun Go Down
Rose Valley
Uchisar
A View Of Nevsehir
Nevsehir castle
Pasha mountain
Selime monastry
Pigeon Valley
Goreme
See more photos from around the country of Turkey…
Nice pictures. Thanks for sharing
These are beautiful photos! You’ve got a great eye! I think its always helpful to look through photographers pictures that you love and practice taking pictures with some of the same elements that you enjoyed in their photos.
The pics are lovely Natalie. We are hoping to move back there one day…but it’s just wishful thinking at the moment. It really is my favourite place in Turkey, and 4 years there was the longest we’ve lived anywhere in this country.
Beautiful photos Natalie. It’s been 14 years since I was in the Cappadocia area. It doesn’t look like it has changed much.
@Thankg. Thanks and glad you stopped by to take a look.
@Dania. Totally agree. I am always looking at other peoples photographs and finding out their techniques and methods.
@Ayak. I can totally understand why you want to move back there.
@Audery. I hope it never changes Audery. It is so beautiful as it is.
Great photos Natalie. We’re lucky to have the scenery we have to practise with!
I’ve had my camera for three years now and there are still functions I’ve not experimented with. I think the main thing is to learn exactly how your own camera works.
Flickr’s pretty good for picking people’s brains (although I’ll confess to a lot of it going over my head!!). I’ve also got a book called ‘How To Photograph Absolutely Everything’. I think the author is Tom Ang (I’m guessing!). It was recommended in the Guardian as being great for beginners. I really like it and have picked up some good tips from it.
I also subscribe to Darren Rowse’s blog digital-photography-school.com. Some good tips on there – as well as stuff that, again, goes right over my head.
Julia
The pictures are certainly very very nice…and all so different from one another! Did you stay in the ‘cave house’? Sounds like such an awesome idea!
Oh this is the part of Turkey I want to visit most! I heard so much about it and hopefully I will be able to do it after leaving Egypt (which means in a few months!) – Thanks for sharing these pretty pics
that is some spectacular looking scenery!
@TFL. Will have a look at the book. Also signed up for the newsletter by Darren Rowse. Hope he does not get too technical!
@Sid. I stayed in a cave hotel. That was out of this world.
@Giulia. Been reading your blog. Well done for your reports on Egypt.
@Greg. It is great scenery. A photographers paradise.
Great collections, love the balloon one. I like to check out these two site. http://www.learnfoodphotography.com/ & http://www.photoble.com/ enjoy girl.
ive not logged on for a few days so im catching up , lovely lovely photos Nat cant wait to go and see this for myself
Thanks Phil and Di. Thought you had gone awol for a couple of days. LOL
I have one word to say: amazing. Both the quality of the photos and what’s in them are just beautiful.
Wow, Cappadocia is gorgeous, I’ve only been to Istanbul in Turkey, and I absolutely fell in love with it. I have to go back, and I think next time will be Cappadocia..
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Breathtaking photos! It’s like a whole new world out there! Love the mountains!
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Woow, nice pictures ! Thank you for sharing them with us. These pictures tell me more than 1.000 words. They really give me a good idea what to find when i will visit Cappadocia. Greets…
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I always say pictures tell more than an article Nico
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nice pictures thank’s. I live in cappadocia. We expect you in the shortest possible time Cappadocia.
Thanks Yasin. I won’t be returning to Cappadocia any time soon but definitely one day!
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Wow,look like another planet.I will be in Cappadocia thisi coming June.Can’t wait to take photograph from Hot air balloon.Look like A flinstone city to me,very nice
Beautiful pictures!!! I have just been there and I would love to return…
Thank you. I too hope to return one day, it is just an amazing place
Beautiful photos. Have you ever been to Bryce or Zion National Parks in Utah? The landscapes there seem very similar. We’ll be in Cappadocia in June – can’t wait!
Never been there Sue but would like to visit America one day, not sure where I would go as it is so big. Enjoy Cappadocia
These are lovely pictures. We’ve been considering a trip to Turkey and there is an 11 day option that bypasses Cappadocia and the 15 day one that includes it. Now that I have seen the photos I definitely want to take the longer option. The place seems fantastical and otherworldly, fairytale like.
Thanks!
Robert, definitely take the 15 day option. You will not regret it
Hello Natalie. I’ve learnt about this hotel called Esbelli Evi House from Shelley-Maree Cassidy’s book “A Place to Stay 30 Extraordinary Hotels” (2006 ed.) Do you know of any similar hotels like that?
Not heard about that hotel Rob, this is the hotel that I stayed at when I went to Cappadocia with my husband. http://turkishtravelblog.com/spelunca-hotel-goreme-cappadocia/
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Hi,
I was two times too close to travel to Turkey. After looking at this post I think that I’ll go next holidays
Make sure you do, you won’t regret it
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Really amazing imagery. Cappadocia looks like a great holiday destination. I am very tempted to go there one day.
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Some great pictures from different angles. A few years since we have visited Kapadokya but it really is a magical place. Must return.
I am glad to be back Judy and I don’t normally return to the same place twice
After watching the pictures and reading the post I just went to Google and found that Cappadocia is more beautiful then my imagination.
You have to see it with your very own eyes to really appreciate it Rosa
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