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.
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Vitaly Bachinsky


A morning in Priene, green all over the hills with trees like buildings in a city and ruins looking like people rushing to those buildings. The ruins lie on the grass and squish it with their heavy weight: the weight that was given to them long ago and then being destroyed into smaller and smaller pieces and becoming lighter and lighter to end up being like sand after awhile, to not harm anymore grass.


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This is a picture I did not take in Priene of a person standing on a hill far away from me surrounded by trees and thoughts, having a private moment probably thinking about something important or private that might have happened to him before, so with the decision he came to think it all out and decide what important step in his life he should take next, or maybe he was just enjoying the view.
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