Istanbul (July 3-6 '04)

After returning from Germany I made another quick trip to Connecticut to 454 company for a board meeting and then I was off to Istanbul for two days. I found it beautiful and it was a shame I only had two days before having to fly to Banff to give a keynote at another conference. I had one day before the start of the CPM conference where I toured the main sites photographed below with Max Crochmere, his wife Majo and daughter Louis, and our host Cenk Sahinalp and Ugur Dogrusoz.

Conference site (an old palace)	Roof texture	Column Heads (St. Sophia)	Window (St. Sophia)
Dome of St. Sophia	Archway (St. Sophia)	Dome closeup (St. Sophia)	Door & roof texture
Arches (St. Sophia)	The scale of St. Sophia	Mosaic of Christ (St. Sophia)	MaJoe, Max, and Cenk
Busted trying to take candid of Mary Joseph	The Blue Mosque 1	Blue Mosque 2	Cistern lights 1
Cistern lights 2	Kariye Cammi: Mosaic closeup	Dome of Kariye Cammi	View from my room in Istanbul
Mosque at sunset	Alberto Apostilico & Paolo Ferragina	Alberto's wife & Max Crochemore	Louisa & Alberto's daughter
Cenk Sahinalp	Gene & Nihal Dogrusoz