CAVECam #202 "Ushaiger-Courtyard-1"

Revision number: 5
Revision date:   2019-05-07 13:10:08 (UTC-0700)

Captured by:
    Tom DeFanti, Andrew Prudhomme, UCSD

Rendered by:
    Dick Ainsworth using PTGui and Photoshop

Copyright:
    (c) 2013 Tom DeFanti, Andrew Prudhomme, Dick Ainsworth

Date captured:
    2013-04-01

Date rendered:
    2013-04-29

Description:
    This is a shot inside the courtyard of the main mosque of
    Ushaiger. Ushaiger is one of the oldest towns in the Saudi region
    of Najd and it was a major stopping point for pilgrims coming from
    Kuwait, Iraq and Iran to perform Hajj or Umrah. It was mostly
    abandoned 50 years ago, but is now being reconstructed and people
    have started to move back in. Also see
    http://thompsonsinsaudi.blogspot.com/2011/04/ushaiger-village.html
    Quoting this website: coordinates 25°20′33″N 45°11′0″E.
    ... 200 kms each way of easy highway from Riyadh. As part of a
    training exercise for a group of scientists and engineers from
    KACST in Riyadh, Tom DeFanti and Andrew Prudomme went with the
    group to shoot these CAVEcams and also attempt some structure from
    motion (SfM) image capture. Thanks to Saleh Al-Harti, Mohammed
    Alfarhan, Azzam Asuhaibani, and Badr Altasan of KACST who got us
    to this amazing museum, and helped us photograph this
    reconstructed town.

Location:
    Ushaiger, Saudi Arabia

    Latitude: 25.339061458818374
    Longitude: 45.17852783203125
    (Approximate location)

Keywords (to help search):
    Ushaiger, Saudi Arabia, KACST, hajj, umrah, , Najd, Nejd, mosque

Associated image galleries:
    #10 "Ushaiger Additional Images"
    #697 "Ushaiger-Courtyard-1 LEFT"
    #698 "Ushaiger-Courtyard-1 RIGHT"

External links (auto-extracted):
    http://thompsonsinsaudi.blogspot.com/2011/04/ushaiger-village.html