 Hunt decided to join him, meeting him in Florence, Italy, in late September 1851.Hunt and Baker spent several weeks in Rome practicing photography, and then sailed from Naples to Malta and eventually up the Nile River into the Sinai Peninsula, to Petra (where they were among the first to photograph the ruins), then on to Jerusalem, to what is today Lebanon, then on to Constantinople and Athens, before returning to Paris in May 1852.Hunt's and Baker's photographs were dazzling, especially for a brand-new medium many had never seen before.