RTF Drone Photo Challenge - February 1st to 28th - Shadows

You have favoured Shadows as your subject for this round which runs until Valentines Night! :heart_eyes: :heart: :heart_eyes:

We admire your confidence that the sun will be strong enough sometime in the next two weeks to be able to actually cast a shadow!

RULES

The usual rules apply, reproduced here as we know you faithfully read, digest and abide by them every round of RTF.

The requirement is to submit a single still image created using a drone to illustrate the subject of the competition. This round will run from 00:01 Sunday 1st Februaryy until 23:00 Saturday February 28th 2026; the subject is Shadows

The image must be captured while the competition is open. It is a Reason To Fly Challenge 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. Stacked images, HDR images and non-spherical panoramas are considered single images for the purposes of this competition.

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.

The Challenge Committee 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 (and second and third-placed competitors if there are sufficient entries) 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. Make your own quip up if you want to. If a flight is undertaken in a restricted zone proof of permission having been granted is required.

E&OE

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Kicking off early, weather hasn’t been good for flying round here for weeks so making the most of a dry, sunny day.

Rylstone, North Yorkshire

1st February 2025 @ 11.42

DJI Mini 5 Pro

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The Prom, Saltcoats

4.2.26, 23:30

DJI Mini 4 Pro

I love the shadow patterns created by the old fashioned streetlights on the prom. You don’t see them at all from ground level.

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  • Pinner Village Gardens, Harrow (again!)
  • 4/2/2026 13:59
  • DJI Mini 3

I was hoping for more sunshine, but have not had any since then when I have been free to fly the drone. I suspect I am not the only frustrated flyer. Anyhow here is the best of a short session with the sun dodging behind the clouds. I particularly like the dog shadow.

Hoping for better weather,

Peter

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The Tank Farm
Haverton Hill, Billingham
Fri 13th Feb 8:12pm
DJI Mini 4 Pro

After seemingly weeks of none stop rain, I managed to dodge the snow showers to get out this evening

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Due to weather not being conducive to creating shadows and the main RTFjudge being banged up in the chokey haematology ward of the local hospital it has been to extend the completion until February 28th.

The subject selected on February 14th will be held over

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Hope you get well soon Rob :+1:

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Get well soon Rob :+1:

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I concur, get better soon

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Hoping the RTF judge gets released from his incarceration soon :mending_heart:

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Finally got a break in the weather :smiley:

Fleetwood Lower ( Beach ) Lighthouse

14/02/26 11:33 DJI Mini 2

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  • The “Shot at Dawn” Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas
  • 1.30pm 14th Feb
  • Mavic 4 Pro

Being accessible only by boat today, this Memorial commemorates 309 British and Commonwealth soldiers who were shot for desertion, cowardice, striking a senior officer, disobeying a lawful order, casting away arms, mutiny and sleeping at post during the First World War, some of whom were underage when they volunteered.

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  • North of Cottesbrook,Northamptonshire
  • 14/2/2026 09:05
  • DJI Air 2s

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THIS IS MY ENTRY
Location: Beacon Hill Fort, Hampshire
Date: 14.02.26
Taken: 08.24am
DJI Air 3s
It was bitterly cold with a northerly breeze blowing which rendered my fingers virtually unusable!

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Just a reminder that the challenge is open until 28th in the vain hope that the sun might shine strongly enough to cast some shadows.

I’m just back from my unexpected holiday in QA hospital. And my keyboard has gone haywire, think a switch may be misbehaving so still doing everything on phone.

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Good to hear you managed to escape !

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Cue some inventive indoor drone flying and strategic lighting. Shadow puppet drone shots anyone? :wink:

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I was actually thinking something along those lines myself until I got a brief window from the rain

Nice to hear you’re up and about Rob :+1: :+1: :+1:

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