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Cloudy Day on the Al Shafa Rd

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Cloudy Day on the Al Shafa Rd

Post by WorldInFocus » Sun Jan 05, 2020 4:29 pm

Hi All,

Had a drive out to Al Shafa yesterday 4/01/2020. The weather around Al Shafa was decidely poor with a cloud base at around 7000' which was a problem as the road is at 7200'. Photographs at the summit were not worth the effort but as we came below the clouds the vista opened up and it was much better for photographs. Managed to test run my new 8mm Samyang lens and got some reasonable results. This area of Saudi Arabia is very green and lately with the rain we have had it looks quite picturesque even with the angry looking clouds. There is more to KSA than deserts. The road is extremely winding and steep and can be seen on Google Maps at 21.090847, 40.307952. Found an interesting sign showing the end of the road was 25m from the sign straight into a huge rock....... :D

Image20200104_539 by Ian Cramman, on Flickr

Image20200104_546 by Ian Cramman, on Flickr

Image20200104_549 by Ian Cramman, on Flickr

Image20200104_550 by Ian Cramman, on Flickr

Image20200104_564 by Ian Cramman, on Flickr

Image20200104_569 by Ian Cramman, on Flickr

Image20200104_585 by Ian Cramman, on Flickr

Image20200104_597 by Ian Cramman, on Flickr

Image20200104_609 by Ian Cramman, on Flickr

Image20200104_618 by Ian Cramman, on Flickr

Hope you like the pictures,

Ian C

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Re: Cloudy Day on the Al Shafa Rd

Post by KJ994 » Mon Jan 06, 2020 1:11 am

Stunning scenery. Some impressive highway engineering there too - until the forward planning ran out!

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Re: Cloudy Day on the Al Shafa Rd

Post by iainpeden » Fri Jan 10, 2020 9:19 am

Your pictures change my whole perception of Saudi Arabia.

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