RTF Competition April 9th to 22nd - Lakes - Vote for the Winners

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@group-challenges

Happy Easter!

And to celebrate here is a new subject for your attention for the next two weeks. The people have spoken and they have selected Lakes. So place your best image here for the approbation of and judging by your co-conspirators and peers :slight_smile:

Entries close at 23:00 on Saturday 22nd.

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The rules are below. Nice, fresh and still crisp as they are, apparently, barely read. So go on, indulge yourself, take a look ā€¦

RTF RULES
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The requirement is to submit a still image created using a drone to illustrate the subject of the competition. The subject for the competition running from 00:01 April 9th to 23:00 April 22nd 2023 is Lakes.

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:

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

Voting

Images will be judged by the members of GADC who may vote for any number of images by means of 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 original media may be requested by the judges 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 and counted

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. Landownersā€™ 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
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Iā€™m assuming Lochs are okay for us folk north of the wall? :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hope so or itā€™ll be a waste of time going to most of the Lake District :astonished:

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Are reservoirs also classed as lakes ?

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A lake is a body of water surrounded by land. There are other names for lakes, like mere as in Windermere. A mere is a shallow lake.

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We thought the Scottish education system would have taught you how to spell ā€œlakeā€ :slight_smile: Yes, lochs are acceptable as are the Loughs found in that lovely land across the water.

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We refer the honourable gentleman to the Wikipedia definition of Lake:

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@Challenges_Committee take that as a yes then :man_shrugging:

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Do we think ponds count? Iā€™m not thinking of the ā€˜village pond typeā€™ but around by us there are a few large bodies of water that, as far as I can tell, match the criteria above. The only quirk is that theyā€™re called ponds. e.g Warren pond and Frensham ponds ( of which thereā€™s a little and a large pond - both look large to me ).

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Just to confuse matters - around these parts a lot of the intertidal runoffs into deeper water in the harbour are called lakes ā€¦

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There are no rules per se to these challenges in terms of interpretation of the subject, as far as Iā€™m aware, but reservoirs are man made.

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Thereā€™s also lakes around here which are former quarryā€™s. Which Iā€™d say are man made.

Rather than people trying to decipher what is and isnā€™t a lake, fly and let your peers vote.

The riverā€™s subject practically turned into bridges if I recall recently.

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This is your competition. We try to keep the rules to a minimum (in the certain knowledge they will be bent, broken or ignored :slight_smile: ).

But, if you want a ruling try this suggestion:

The lake must conform to the definition given by Wikipedia as posted here

A lake is a naturally occurring, relatively large body of water localized in a basin completely surrounded by dry land, with much slower-moving flow than any inflow or outflow streams that serve to feed or drain it.

Reservoirs tend not to occur naturally that often; they often have a construction such as an earth or concrete dam at one end ā€¦

If the lake conforms to the Wiki definition then sea lakes or lochs arenā€™t admissable.

The body of water photographed needs to have the name lake associated with it on Google Earth. Except for lakes in the Lake District where they are almost all meres or waters. And the Gaelic-speaking areas with lochs and loughs. And Wales ā€¦

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No ponds it is, as I suspect it would take more than 2 weeks to get their name changed, oh well, not much going for them at 400 ft any way.

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Llyn
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Hear Hear

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No reservoirsā€¦ rules out Thirlmere and Haweswater. Some Tarns are classed as Glacial Lakes just to add to the confusion. :grin:

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But they all featured a river. :rofl: Iā€™m not a betting man but I wager the winner of this comp will feature something other than a large body of water to make it interesting and special. :wink:

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But make sure you call it Lake ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ :rofl:

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Lake definition

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