RTF Competition March 3rd to 16th 2024 - Landscapes without Buildings - Winners Announced

Presented with the choice of subject as Heavy Haulage, Landscapes without Buildings or Moving Vehicles the majority chose Landscapes without Buildingss. No doubt we will see the subjects that were rejected this time around appearing sometime in the future - if RTF remains a popular challenge!

Not just added to fill up space:

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 3rd to 23:00 Saturday, March 16th 2024 and the subject is Landscapes without Buildings.

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 absolutely 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

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

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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Lets open the bidding from the forest of Bowland.

Taken today from the Trough of Bowland at 13:31

https://maps.app.goo.gl/acA4d3cVxAQerspeA

mini 3 pro

PS I hate Sunday drivers. i was following a XC90, stopped as he was crawling. took some footage, and caught him up, without speeding.

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Great minds think alike :wink:

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Forest of Bowland at 16:02, 3/3/24, DJI Mini2 - TOAL from Jubilee Tower carpark. Hill to the left is Grit Fell

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Tuther side o hill. :grin::grin::grin:

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Genuinely beginning to wonder if this is actually possible East of Exeter and South of Buxton! Going to have to get creative!

It’s surprising how many buildings there are in the middle of nowhere. 99% of my photo’s had a building in them from my flights on Sunday, most of which i only spotted on a large screen as i was looking for one to post. :grin:

Absolutely. And the higher your vantage point - the more ‘droney’ the shot - the higher the chances of including one. I’ve been scouring Google Maps for suitable places and any vista I would normally consider a landscape will have several.

I’ll find something, I’m sure - but it’s likely to be a close crop of the side of a hill or valley, or a low angle over a forest!

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Agreed - there’s actually a barn just out of shot in my pic

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Review of Alfa Giulia and Stelvio Quadrifoglio to finish… or… go out and fly. Sunny day… I set the editorial deadlines… Off to look for ‘not buildings’.

Taken from the top of Glastonbury Tor after sunrise with the rolling fog across the plains.

Wednesday 6th at 7am

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THIS IS MY ENTRY.

Ilkley Moor
Overlooking Coldstone Beck
11/03/2024 - 11:27.
DJI Mini 3 Pro.
ISO 100.
Shutter 1/80s, 0ev.

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THIS IS MY ENTRY

Looking North of Cottesbrooke, Northamptonshire.

Taken Tuesday, 5 March 2024, 17:12
With DJI Air 2s

I haven’t seen any sun since taking this so I post now. I love how the sun setting shows up the Ridge and furrow archaeological pattern. I will be going back when we have more sunny days.

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Loch Tarff
Taken Thursday 14th March 2024 @ 11.01
DJI Mini 4 Pro

First entry for a while, weather and work has been against me, a short break up in Scotland gave me the opportunity to get some flight time in.
Stopped on the way to the Falls of Foyers as the water surface was as still as a mill pond, glad I didn’t stop on the way back as was the intention as the wind had picked up a little and the stillness had gone.

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THIS IS MY ENTRY

Glenshee
Taken Friday 15th March at 15:45
Mavic Air 2

Looking back in the opposite direction was blue skies, but unfortunately I had to land as the wind speed was blowing my Air 2 backwards!!! I managed 5 photaes in total, the rest are more pants than this one :rofl:

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Was out early door’s this morn trying out some stuff and thought what the 'eck, throw the drone up and see what ya get…

DJI AIR2S
160324
05:50 am
Parbold hill,nr Wigan, Lancashire.

The views on a nice day span from Liverpool to Blackpool to Manchester. Great spot to chill :smiley:

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Langdale End, North York Moors, 7.30am Sat 16th March. DJI mini SE, 100m elevation. I wanted mist but it had gone!

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THIS IS MY ENTRY

Filey Brigg North Yorkshire taken 1149 3rd March 2024 DJI Mini4 pro

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Ten pictures, not a building in sight - now it is time to pick the best of them. You can vote by selecting one, some, all or none of them - but do so by 22:00 on Monday 18th.

Voting is open to all GADC members!

@group-challenges

We hope you have enjoyed the pictures as pictures and not spent time pixel peeping to see if that different coloured spot wa-a-a-a-y in the background is a building or not. Save that sort of thing for the poor judges in the Birthday Challenge and treasure hunt who often get presented with just that situation - are those few pixels really the bonus item the competitor is claiming … ?

Back to the plot - we have a somewhat distorted winners’ circle this time as the top photos were only separated by a few percentage points. So we are declaring the third-place winner to be Jason @Acedrone who has shown us how the low sun brings out the archaeological details in the landscape north of Cottesbrooke, Northamptonshire.

We have two second-place winners, a colourful shot of the sunrise at Parbold Hill near Wigan by an early-rising Ady - @Leylo1971

and another sunrise after a steep climb, this time a shot over the ground fog from Glastonbury Tor, taken by John @StunningDrone

Our winner, just beating the previous three into first place is Mark - @markas who decided to forego the early morning alarm cal and take his shot of Loch Tarff at the (more sensible?) time of 11 o’clock to take advantage of a temporary lull in the wind to capture a perfect reflection

Well done everyone, thank you to all who voted, to all who went out to find isolated places with no buildings to be seen and congratulations to our four finalists! See you for the next one, open now

@group-challenges

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Well done guys, not only for finding a gap in the chronic weather of late but producing fabulous evidence that there are great photo opportunities to be had ! :clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:

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