peaceful selimiye

i love it when green meets blue.. and marmaris is just like that.. and selimiye brings the peacefulness that you seek through out the year. i was in marmaris at the beginning of this month to shoot a beloved wedding and just before that i had the chance to enjoy every bit of this small village.. little hotels, great restaurants with delicious food and amazing sea that you cannot get enough off! luckily my friend ozan and his lovely family are running this beautiful small, cozy hydas pension with great hospitality and amazing breakfast in the mornings, under the olive tree! so if you are looking for some quality time to relax, enjoy a book or two, stay within the nature; i highly suggest you to visit wonderful selimiye!   oh and the best time to visit is definitely september and early october! sun warms you up more than enough and the water is not cold at all =) i took these photos at a very early right after sunrise walk.. it was just great to see how nature was waking up to a new day!  i hope you all enjoy the photos like i enjoyed taking them! 

beautiful autumn..

i have always loved autumn.. how nature brings out it's bright colors out, how it is somehow peaceful. even the rain has it's way of calm you down. it is somehow melancholic and tranquil at the same time. wind blows, rain falls, sun shines, leaves falls.. you just want to be still. enjoy the silence of the nature, you will empty your head and just be still.. at least just for a moment.. because you will feel the fall in you..

photos were taken at casa lavanda hotel, istanbul - stalu hotel, yesilyurt - and urza, istanbul during my maternity and wedding sessions in this september.. 

that's me!

so finally i was in front of the camera! beside my lovely photographer friend carina in belgium (yea how often can i go there to have photos taken?), i made my darling talented friend yasemin to take my photos! i was finally dressed in color put some make up (a pro one  please!!) on and posed for a good cause! hopefully i will soon relive the reason here too. fingers crossed! well let me tell you something, posing under hot hot sunny weather is tough! and i am so aware of it and i do feel the pain all my summer brides are going through! but the end result is always great despite all the sweat! so these are also some head shots for my future couples to get to know me while going through my portfolio! oh yea this is basically me with make up! ^_^ 

paris, my love in march..

i love paris. we do have some sort of great love story going on between us. no matter what time of year it is.. well funny thing, i have always been to paris in march and for now it has been very well! i cannot get enough of this beautiful city. esthetics is the word and concept that defines this city. my dream one day is to be able to wake up to a parisian morning carelessly and enjoy the city at its bests! well hoping to fill this blog with more paris photos in different seasons through out the years. these are from very beautiful march weekend in which the whole public transportation system was also free due to over dose particles in the air causes pollution. from the cities i am living in turkey, this weather is nothing close to pollution ofcourse. so i enjoyed it very much with one wedding, one engagement and one anniversary shoot of beautiful people! which will be on the blog soon too! from the jardins du luxembourg to louvre, from monmarte to pantheon here is beautiful paris.. 

thank you mom. with love, your daughter.. | her sey için tesekkürler annem. sevgiyle, kızın..

i'm not a mother.  yet. but i do know how hard it is to be. and as i age, i do understand my mom more and more each day. and i know that i am turning like her in so many ways.. i can share her concerns, fears, proud moments, excitements, happiness more deeply. i now can clearly see reasons why she has always been apprehensive through out my childhood. those sleepless nights, those waits by the window, one ear always listening our breath.. to raise a child in this world might be the most difficult thing ever. at least for me it is. but she did it. along with many others. who are all proud of their beautiful daughters. daughters that are turned into friends. mothers who are now best friend to many daughters that they can trust no matter what. because we all know that it is always our mothers who will be there for us no matter what. and i do feel that more each day. that bond grows more than instinctively. as daughters, we do want our moms to be with us at our best, at our lows.. it is their shoulder that gives us the comfort, and it is their hand that gives us the strength to keep moving..it is their pain when we are in one. it is their joy when we have it all.. where no other can.. 

thank you mom, for raising me into strong, confident woman like yourself.. and i am so proud to be your daughter. i love you so much. 

with love to all mothers..

yeliz..

♥

ben anne degilim. ya da henüz olmadım diyelim. ama anne olmanın ne kadar zor oldugunu biliyorum. yasım büyükdükçe, tecrübelerim arttıkça annemi her geçen gün daha da iyi anlıyorum ve biliyorum ki gün geçtikçe ona daha da çok benziyorum. endiselerini, hüzünlerini, mutluluklarını, heyecanlarını, korkularını, hayallerini simdi daha da net görüyor ve paylasıyorum. tüm o uykusuz gecelerini, pencere önünde merakla bekleyislerini, hastalandıgımda nefeslerimi dinleyislerini, ayrı kaldıgımızdaki özlemlerini..bu hayata bir çocuk getirmek ve büyütmek dünyanın en zor seylerinden biri. en azindan benim için öyle. ama sen bunu basardın annem. diger bütün kızlarıyla gurur duyan annelerle beraber.  kız çocuktan öte arkadas olanlar; anneden öte her konuda güvenebilecek dost olanlar.. çünkü hepimiz biliyoruz her seye ragmen en sonunda yanımızda olanlar annelerimizden baskası degil. bunu her geçen gün daha da net hisediyorum. ve bu his içgüdüsellikten de öte bir sekilde büyüyor..biz kız çocuklar iyisiyle kötüsüyle, her anımızda annemiz yanımızda olsun istiyoruz. omuzlarında huzuru buluyor, ellerinden güç alıyor ve ilerlemeye devam ediyoruz. kimseler hisetmezken bizim acımız onların acısı, bizim sevinçlerimiz onların sevinçleri oluyor.. 

tesekkürler annem beni de kendin gibi güçlü ve kendine güveni tam bir kadın olarak yetistirdigin için. senin kızın olmaktan gurur duyuyorum ve seni çok seviyorum.

tüm annelere sevgilerle..

yeliz.

photo credit goes to my brother ^_^

and most emotional and proud moments of my weddings..

antwerp with my photoglove <3

it was my first time in belgium.  and guess what; i did enjoy it very much! despite the fact that it is a very small country compare to turkey but it has it's own way of attracting people. antwerp especially drawn me into it! i did enjoy every bit of it! of course discovering it with locals helped me a lot to love this city! but i can assure you that there are so many beautiful things to be discovered. small coffee shops with great coffee, designer stores, which i still have some left to visit, peaceful streets and amazing street art that adds color to dark northern europe weather.. antwerp should be in the list of must see europe if there is a such list ^_^ i hope you enjoy the photos and feel like visiting antwerp soon!  | belçika için avrupa'nın minik bürokratik ülkesi diyebiliriz ama antwerp için daha fazlası gerekiyor sanırım. sehrin kendine has bir enerjisi ve dokusu beni içine çekmeyi basardı. sokakları, restorantları, kahve dükkanları, özellikle sokak waffleları, tabiki bisikletleri (benim için bir sehrin guzelligi bisikletle ulasım saglayabilmekle neredeyse dogru orantılı) ve en önemlisi sehri birlikte gezdigim ve gezerkende tanistigim güzel insanları antwerp'i benim için özel yapmaya yetti.. umarım fotograflarımdan sehri siz de gezme istegine kapılırsınız!

this lovely woman is like my sister now! our story has started in a strange way but turned out great for both of us (i do hope that she feels the same way too tho ^_^ ) i spent 16 great days with her and lovely family and i am hoping that they have enjoyed it as much as did! - i know she did but i am not sure about the kids (!) =D carina thank you for sending me that very first message! i am so glad that i had the privilege to wonder around the streets of antwerp, brussels, paris and drink good coffee, talk over wine with great chocolates with you! you made these 16 days amazing for me!
 

and david, thank you for putting up with this two crazy lady! you are one amazing patient man! =)

pigeon photobomb!

photo by beyond lovely carina gyselinck  

my love for spring

my love for flowers and gorgeous colors of nature is on its top at this time of year and that puts me in a place where i feel like i am in heaven! i was at a private estate in istanbul and enjoyed this amazing garden! a bit of a fairy tale like; a bit of a movie like setting.. my creativity and imagination reaches its maximum i guess ^_^