RTF drone photo competition - November 10th to 23rd - Agriculture - Vote for the Winners

RTF. What is it?

A Reason To Fly photo competition

We have a pool of member suggestions for subjects. Three are chosen at random and members vote for their favourite.

Once the subject is picked you have fourteen days to create the best image possible to illustrate it. Members then vote for their favourite pictures and the one with the highest number of votes is the winner.

And the voters’ favourite this time around was

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 Sunday10th November until 23:00 Saturday, November 23rd 2024; the subject is Agriculture

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. Do not fold, spindle or mutilate. If a flight is undertaken in a restricted zone proof of permission having been granted is required.

E&OE

@group-challenges

Don’t farmers take the winter off?

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Find a farmer and tell him that. See what kind of response you get :slight_smile: :tractor: :cow2: :pig2:

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Oi’m nat gerrin moi traactor out in this wearther, nat fer noo fercker :joy::joy::joy::joy::joy::joy:

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Finding them’s the problem. They’re all in Klosters…

Followed by “Git thaaat drone outta moi airspaaaace!!!”

THIS IS MY ENTRY

Autumn Sowing

PEDNOR
11-11-2024 - 10:47hours
MAVIC AIR

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Are you having a laugh they run the country all year round even at Christmas

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I can’t wait to capture some photos of some agricultural themes. So with Agriculture does photos of Farm Animals count or not???

This competition is run by the Challenges Committee who have a reputation of being right double-hard b*stards when judging the annual Birthday Challenge.

This competition is different in that the judges are your fellow GADC members. The subject has been chosen by them from a pool of subjects suggested by them. The rules are in place to ensure a level playing field but that is as far as ChallCom’s involvement goes.

If you think your fellow members will consider husbandry as agriculture then go for it!

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Thank you for the clarification

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THIS IS MY ENTRY
Mapledurham Agriculture Waste Plant Reading, Also Falls Under Oxon Area,
Mavic 3 Classic
14,11,24 @ 13,00 hrs

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That’s sh… very nice.

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Thanks
The jpeg that came out the drone is better ( no joke ) I should’ve used that instead :joy:

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THIS IS MY ENTRY

  • New Alresford
  • 11.37 a.m 20/11/2024
  • DJI Mavic Air
  • New Alresford has a long history with Watercress production and became the centre of the industry in 1865, with the arrival of the railways to transport the watercress to market in London and the Midlands. The Watercress Line that still runs between Arlesford and Alton keeps that heritage alive. The watercress beds seen here arrived with modern cultivation methods in 1925, the beds are fed with water from boreholes at a constant temperature of 10 deg C, preventing the water freezing on cold days. Prior to this the cress was harvested from streams where contamination of the water could not so easily be controlled.

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THIS IS MY ENTRY

Farmers: Crowding out Nature since 10,000BCE

Finchampstead, Berkshire
14:39 on 22/11/2024
DJI Air 3

Polytunnels are the latest agricultural technology to remind us that the countryside and nature are not the same thing. See also commons, hedgerows, levellers, enclosures, hedgerow removal…

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Ah
I was going to do the ones they grow fruit / strawberries etc just past charvil there on the A4,
Not sure if you remember but some years ago now when people from across the water was coming over to work, well one of them fell( or dragged ) inside one of the machines I’m sure you can guess the rest if you don’t know all ready, I think there was a saga investigation was he pushed in or did he fall etc etc, :+1:

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Eeek. No, I don’t remember that. These are flowers, I believe.

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Around 2010 ish

Sounds unpleasant.

This isn’t the shot I wanted, but there’s hardly anywhere to TOAL, the hedges make it almost impossible to fly over the field and maintain VLOS - and I know what farmers are like, so took these flying over the road rather than the farm. Life’s too short.

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