Welcome to our visual blog for the BUPS/BIS 2009 8th grade Ephesus trip. These photographs, captions and "unphotographs" represent a joint venture in English and art class capturing the experience of the students' final middle school trip at BUPS/BIS. Many still remember and speak fondly of the games at Patalya in 6th grade and the adventures in Cappadocia last year in 7th. This year's experience held the same kind of wonder and memories, all the more poignant since in just a little time they will graduate from the 8th grade. The students have chosen their best landscape, portrait and detail photograph, writing a concise and descriptive caption for one. Using Michael David Murphy's "Unphotographable" as an inspiration, the students also wrought an image in words when its meaning went beyond the pixel.

Even though they will be in the same building next year and have many of the same teachers, high school is a different world. Every assignment and class trip of middle school has been constructed to help the students succeed in this new realm. But, as you will see from the photos of Ephesus and its surrounding areas and as the students realized, the past is never far away, and it's always the foundation for the future.

Friday

Irmak Ertaş


In Ephesus, trying to catch up with my study group on my hurried feet, heat was tiring and my hair was on my forehead, driving me crazy. Then I saw these two ravishing, lovely daisies. The colors were so impressive that I stopped while I was already left behind, and took this photo. I had goosebumps, but I don’t know why. Two daisies stuck in the road, struggling. People just pass them by or step on them. It feels they are close but in the same time, separate and far away.


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