RTF Competition 23rd June to July 6th 2024; - Canals - Vote for the Winners

There were three to choose from, all promising different things.

Public Transport - rail, bus, ferry, aircraft, and exciting world of possibilities. Canals - slow, steady, scenic, graceful. And Patterns in the Landscape - trees in plantations, natural rock formations, agricultural activity, planned towns and settlements.

Different means to the same end - take the subject and apply imagination and creativity. Throw in planning and research for the location, a little bit of luck with the weather and you have the potential for a prize winning photograph. And which subject won the seat for the RTF constituency?

Canals

(Fancy flying through the tunnel …?)

RTF RULES
Scope

The requirement is to submit a still image created using a drone to illustrate the subject of the competition. This round will run from 00:01 Sunday 23rd June until 23:00 Saturday, July 6th 2024; the subject is Canals

The image must be captured during the time that the competition is open. It is a Reason To Fly competition so please show that the image is created by a flying camera!

Editing is confined to colour and exposure adjustments and crop only. There must be no removal or pasting of an object.

Please post only one image, the image you wish to be judged, in this thread.

Images must be posted with the following information as a minimum:

In Capitals as the first line of your post:

THIS IS MY ENTRY

If this is not done at the time of posting the picture will be ignored. Should it be necessary to change your picture then delete the previous picture and add “This is my entry” - as above - as the first line of your new post. If in any doubt contact the Challenges Committee
(@Challenges_Committee)

Further Information is required

  • Location
  • Time and date
  • Aircraft/camera used
  • Feel free to add any further information that you think will be of interest

Voting

The members of GADC will judge images. They may vote for any number of pictures through an anonymous poll open for two days after the closing date for competition entries.

Voting in the poll is open to all GADC members, whether they have entered the competition or not.

You may vote for one, all, some or none of the entries.

The judges may request the original media in case of a dispute.

Schedule

The competition subject will be announced every second Saturday around 22:30. The subject will be chosen by a poll of GADC members selecting from three that have been picked at random from the subject list. You may make additions to the list at any time.

The competition will run from Sunday 00.01 to Saturday 23.00 fourteen days later. Voting by poll will be open for a further two days until Monday 22:00

The winner, second and third-placed competitors will be announced shortly after the vote is closed

Have Fun! Be Safe!

All flights are the sole responsibility of the individual conducting them. Each competitor must abide by the drone code and adhere to the limitations and restrictions imposed upon them by aviation law, the aircraft being used and the qualifications they hold. First to notice this inserted sentence and notify us by DM will receive a special congratulation at the end of the competition Landowners’ wishes and permissions must be respected. If a flight is undertaken in a restricted zone proof of permission having been granted is required.

E&OE

@group-challenges

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THIS IS MY ENTRY

Lune Aqueduct
24th June 2024 @ 13.54
DJi Mini 4 Pro

6 Likes

This is my entry (it supersedes my previous one!)

Five Rise Locks at Bingley on the Leeds Liverpool Canal
23/6/24 Just after 7am
DJI Mini 4 Pro

The staircase of locks opened 250 years ago and is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Waterways by the Canal & Rivers Trust! It is accompanied by Bingley Three Rise Locks just a few hundred yards along the towpath, which opened at the same time.

6 Likes

NOT my entry!!
This is the Three Rise Locks, just down the towpath from the 5 Rise shown above.
It was recently shifted several yards to the right so the relief road could be built between it and the railway lines. Well, I say recently, it was about 30 years ago! God I’m getting old!! This contributed to the £50m cost, which for just over 2.5 miles made it one of the most expensive roads in the country! In fairness though, it did win the Best Public Building award

4 Likes

That was my thought too - I’ll have to think of somewhere else now :slight_smile:

2 Likes

Nothing in the rules against the same location as another competitor.Different time, different weather - that will change a picture even before considering change of viewpoint. :slight_smile:

3 Likes

THIS IS MY ENTRY
Foxton Locks in Leicestershire
Taken today around 1pm with my DJI Mini 3 Pro
An absolute gem of a place to fly. A credit to our ancestors who built this in the 19th century.

11 Likes

THIS IS MY ENTRY.

Feeder canal central Bristol, takes the Kennet and Avon into the floating harbour.
Wanted the Balloon in a better position but the wind had other ideas.

Feeder Canal Bristol
Drone - Mini 4 PRO
Date - 26/06/24 approx. 19:00

6 Likes

THIS IS MY ENTRY

DJI Mini 3
27th July 2024
Tame Valley Canal
Around 2 pm

Visited with @Foley

4 Likes

THIS IS MY ENTRY
This was just off the Walsall Road Perry Barr/Great Barr (Birmingham)
27th July about 2pm
Using my mini 3 Pro

Both myself and @foleymrs popped into Perry Barr top lock and keepers cottage No 86 and asked if we could have a quick fly around and grab some pictures.

At the top of the picture you can see where the Commonwealth Games were held in 2022

Tame Valley Canal

4 Likes

Both myself and @FoleyMrs go flying together. So most of ours will be from same location, different drone. May even consuder getting the other ones drone in shot lol

4 Likes

@Challenges_Committee Sorry… please can you add the following info to my entry above.

Feeder Canal Bristol
Drone - Mini 4 PRO
Date - 26/06/24 approx. 19:00

Edit time has expired and I forgot!

2 Likes

Done.

3 Likes

THIS IS MY ENRTY
River kennet Canal at marsh Benham Village west Berkshire,
29,06,2024 @ 15,30 ish
Mavic 3 classic,

6 Likes

THIS IS MY ENTRY

Bingley Five Rise Locks West Yorkshire taken 1317 29th June 2024 DJI Mini4 pro

9 Likes

THIS IS MY ENTRY

  • Llangollen Canal
  • 25/6/2024 10:55
  • DJI Mini3 Pro*

The pump house and weir on the river Dee, start of the Llangollen canal. It’s all down hill from here.

3 Likes

Where do you want me to throw my towel. Beautiful picture.

2 Likes

:white_flag:

The competition is now closed. Because of a software update rolled out by our provider the poll facility is temporarily unavailable so voting for the winners will have to wait until the problem is resolved. We will let you know via @group-challenges once that has been done.

Meanwhile why not enter the next round - Clocks or try the non-drone photo competition. IWitCH, the subject for this round being Speed

3 Likes

The problem with the polling software has now been fixed!

We will just take a moment to offer our thanks to the brilliant team of GADC Tefal-heads who worked ceaselessly to provide us with the solution :clap: :clap: :clap:

Now back to business:

You are invited to vote for one, some, all or none of the images below as your favourites, best illustrating the subject of Canals. Because of the delay in publishing this poll voting will close on Wednesday 10th July at 22:00

@group-challenges

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