Digital Apoptosis is functional again, thanks to SherWeb and your patience.

Expect a major upgrade in a few weeks. This experience has convinced me to ditch Movable Type and switch to Wordpress.

Roman ruins in a forested environment. We almost expected to see Lara Croft bursting out of the canopy.

It did include some dangerous wildlife, Christiane was warned off by a rattlesnake.

Sitting in the lotus position by the trail, a young Japanese traveller appeared to be in a deep meditative trance.

Unless it was jet-lag.

During the 2nd century AD, an earthquake resulted in a downward shift of land and submerged the residential part of the Lycian city of Simena. Foundations of buildings and the ancient harbor can be seen below the sea.

Built sometimes after the 60 AD earthquake and significantly renovated 300 years later, the Roman theatre of Hierapolis had a seating capacity of 15,000 and was adapted for water show.

This was by far my favourite place in Istanbul, not only for its grandiose and breathtaking architecture, but also because it simply exhumes history.

It is ridiculously difficult to photograph properly, especially without a tripod.

We finally back home from our amazing trip in Turkey. Because of the jetlag, I've been up since 3:30 am but it nevertheless took me several hours to download and rate the more than 1600 pictures taken with my Canon XTi.

Of all the areas we visited, Cappadocia was definitely the most awesome.

Istanbul Grand Bazard.

By the time you read this, we should be on our way home. I don't want to overpromise things but next week's images should be spectacular.

Taken straight out of my iPhone with no post-processing.