Although the level of difficulty may prove excessive for some subjects.
Blue light vehicles on the way to an incident could be fair game of course. What better way to entice them than to phone in a report of a peeping tom flying a drone around an area looking into peoples bedroom windows? So that is an easy one
The retreat example you show. What height is the map showing for the camera? Seems rather more than 400 feet. We still feel that respect needs to be shown to people who have actively sought out peace and quiet, not just for their sake but also as to not attract bad press for our hobby. But then the process of having three options to be voted on may mean that the majority behave with consideration and the subject of Religious Retreats fails to become the competition selection.
Looking out from a bridge is a possibility, our immediate reaction is that under the arch of a large bridge can be a good place to lose a radio signal. RTH activating under bridges can prove problematical depending on the RTH height set, But again, the cautious majority may prevail when voting.
We will throw all your suggestions into the mix, it’s up to those who are competing (or malcontents who want to make things difficult ) to vote for them!
Here is the current list of potential competition subjects:with the latest suggestions added:
1960’s architecture
360 pano
400 feet directly below
A lone tree
A Small Village with a church
Abandoned building
Abstract
Action
After Rain
Agriculture
Arid
Art for Art’s Sake
As seen on TV
Autumn Colours
Autumn*
Battle re-enactment
Black and White
Blue
Boat wreck
Boats with engines
Breweries
Bridges
British Heritage
Canals
Castles
Chimneys
Churches
Cinematic landscape
Circle
City Skylines
Cityscape
Cliff edge
Cliff Face
Clock Tower
Colours
Construction
Contrasts in nature
Council house
Cranes
Crops
Curves
Demolition
Different/Unusual perspectives
Emergency vehicle with blue lights lit.
Fairs & Fetes
Farm machinery in motion
Ferris wheel
Folly’s
From underneath
Fun Fairs
Golden hour
Golf course
Gothic
Graffiti
Harbours
Harvest*
Heavy Haulage
Heavy metal
Here’s looking at you (Drone from drone)
Heritage railway
History
Holes#
ICM (intentional camera movement)
Indoors
Industry
Iron Age/Roman Forts
Jet Skis
Lakes
Landscapes
Landscapes without Buildings
Lavender fields*
Life boat / craft
Light
Light Trails
Lighthouse
Lights
Long exposure (night)
Marinas
Mazes#
Military Sites WW1
Military Sites WW2
Monochrome landscape
Monument
Motorway services
Movie Titles
Moving vehicles
Moving Water
Murals
National Trust properties
Nature
Nightshots
Non League football ground
One colour only
Outdoor swimming pool
Oval
Patterns
Patterns in the Landscape
Picnic
Piers
Places of worship
Portraits
Ports
Prehistoric
Public Transport
Red
Religious retreat
Repurposed
Rescue
Reservoir
Rivers
Roads
Rocks
Rooftops
Roundabout at dusk
Seascapes
Shadows
Shiny#
Song Titles
Sports Grounds
Spring*
Square
Stadia
Still Water
Straight Down
Straight Lines
Summer*
Sunflowers*
Sunrise/Sunset
Symmetry
Tall chimney
Tallest
Tilt Shift
traffic
Trains/Trams
Trees
Trig Point
Ugly buildings
Victorian engineering
Was a cinema.
Water Tower
Water#
Waterfalls
Weight
Weird and wonderful traffic islands!
White Lines#
Windmill
Winter*
Xmas lights*
Those with asterisks are seasonal so the randomiser will ignore those when it is not possible to find the subjects
We have decided that we can keep previously selected subjects in the list as no one seems to mind. Ay least, that is, that we have had no complaints that the current competition - Moving Water - was run in November 2020!
Can we add fireworks. As it seems these days if you fart someone will celebrate with fireworks. So no longer a need to wait for November.
Morecambe have some tonight.
We have spent the last few days tidying and re0rking the card indices and transferring the data to Hollerith punch cards. Fireworks will be added in the next round of updates. Meanwhile you will have to wait for Nightshots or similar to come round again if you wish to submit pictures of pet scarers and PTSD awakeners.
I would perhaps suggest if something ends up in the options but gets not a single vote, it gets removed from the randomiser so they don’t come up again if they are unpopular.
The Autumn 2022 RTF season starts on September 11th. These are the subjects that got fed into the Randomizer™:
1960’s architecture
360 pano
400 feet directly below
A lone tree
A Small Village with a church
Abandoned building
Abstract
Action
After Rain
Agriculture
Arid
Art for Art’s Sake
As seen on TV
Autumn Colours
Autumn*
Battle re-enactment
Black and White
Blue
Boat wreck
Boats with engines
Breweries
Bridges
British Heritage
Canals
Castles
Chimneys
Churches
Cinematic landscape
Circle
City Skylines
Cityscape
Cliff edge
Cliff Face
Clock Tower
Colours
Construction
Contrasts in nature
Council house
Cranes
Crops
Crowded (but not people!)
Curves
Demolition
Derelict
Different/Unusual perspectives
Emergency vehicle with blue lights lit.
Estates
Fairs & Fetes
Farm machinery in motion
Ferris wheel
Fireworks
Folly’s
From underneath
Fun Fairs
Golden hour
Golf course
Gothic
Graffiti
Harbours
Harvest*
Heavy Haulage
Heavy metal
Here’s looking at you (Drone from drone)
Heritage railway
History
Holes
ICM (intentional camera movement)
Indoors
Industry
Iron Age/Roman Forts
Isolation
Jet Skis
Lakes
Landscapes
Landscapes without Buildings
Lavender fields*
Life boat / craft
Light
Light Trails
Lighthouse
Lights
Long exposure (night)
Marinas
Mazes
Military Sites WW1
Military Sites WW2
Monochrome landscape
Monument
Motorway services
Motor Sport
Movie Titles
Moving vehicles
Moving Water
Murals
National Trust properties
Nature
Nightshots
Non League football ground
One colour only
Outdoor swimming pool
Oval
Patterns
Patterns in the Landscape
Picnic
Piers
Places of worship
Portraits
Ports
Prehistoric
Public Transport
Railway Architecture
Red
Religious retreat
Repurposed
Rescue
Reservoir
Rivers
Roads
Rocks
Rooftops
Roundabout at dusk
Seascapes
Shadows
Shiny
Song Titles
Sports Grounds
Spring*
Square
Stadia
Still Water
Straight Down
Straight Lines
Summer*
Sunflowers*
Sunrise/Sunset
Symmetry
Tall chimney
Tallest
Tilt Shift
traffic
Trains/Trams
Trees
Trig Point
Tunnels
Ugly buildings
Victorian engineering
Vessels
Was a cinema.
Water Tower
Water
Waterfalls
Weight
Weird and wonderful traffic islands!
White Lines
Windmill
Winter*
Xmas lights*
(Subjects with asterisks are seasonal)
And, once the Randomizer™ had processed the punch cards these appeared on the teletype:
Be it high or be it low Be it far or be it so ( near )
Idea is, to take your drone where “ you “ physically can’t get too, obviously, VLOS & height will always apply, to capture subject or subjects.
As the tittle says, so that maybe, below ground level, above ground level, far out or close by, too capture basically what is not possible on foot, or for better words only possible with a drone.
Just a thought,