Updated list:
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1960’s architecture
360 pano
400 feet directly below
A Small Village with a church
Abandoned building
Action
After Rain
Agriculture
Arid
Art for Art’s Sake#
Autumn*
Battle re-enactment
Boat wreck
Boats with engines
Bridges
British Heritage#
Cinematic landscape
City Skylines
Cityscape#
Cliff edge
Cliff Face
Clock Tower
Colours
Contrasts in nature
Cranes
Curves
Different/Unusual perspectives
Farm machinery in motion
Ferris wheel
Fun Fairs
Harbours
Harvest*
Heavy metal
Heritage railway
History
Holes#
ICM (intentional camera movement)
Indoors
Industry
Iron Age/Roman Forts
Jet Skis
Landscapes
Lavender fields*
Light
Light Trails
Lighthouse
Lights#
Long exposure (night)
Marinas
Mazes#
Military Sites WW1
Military Sites WW2
Monochrome landscape
Moving vehicles#
Moving Water
Murals
National Trust properties
Non League football ground
Patterns
Picnic
Places of worship
Portraits
Ports
Prehistoric
Repurposed
Rescue
Rocks
Rooftops
Roundabout at dusk
Seascapes
Shadows
Shiny#
Sports Grounds
Spring*
Stadia
Straight Lines#
Summer*
Sunflowers*
Sunrise/Sunset
Symmetry
Tallest
Tilt Shift
traffic
Trees
Trig Point
Victorian engineering
Water#
Waterfalls
Weight
Weird and wonderful traffic islands!
White Lines#
Windmill
Winter*
Xmas lights*
That is a lot of choices!
Sure is! This comp could run for years 
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If we can keep the Challenges Committee off the sauce for that length of time! 
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Just a few suggestions
Emergency vehicle with blue lights lit.
Life boat / craft
Motorway services
Religious retreat
Outdoor swimming pool
Tall chimney
From underneath
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How about colour themes?
Red
Blue
Green
orange etc.
or monochrome in colour (A shot that is in colour but almost monchromatic)
Shapes
Square
Circle
Oval etc.
Abstract
Patterns in the Landscape
Heavy Haulage
Breweries
Ugly buildings
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Think after the birthday challenge there was a case of overthinking RTFs. No doubt some of the below have been done before but it’s stuff that’s generally easy to find and enjoyable and generally makes a good photo.
As seen on TV
Was a cinema.
Golf course
Council house
Golden hour
Graffiti
Gothic
Castles
Folly’s
Chimneys
Monument
Reservoir
Piers
Roads
Rivers
Lakes
Canals
Trains/Trams
Public Transport
Fairs & Fetes
Water Tower
Demolition
There are a couple of your otherwise suggestions that we think we ought to disregard, Steve,
Emergency service vehicle with blue lights - there is a lot of adverse publicity when people fly drones near the sort of situations that involve emergency vehicles with blues working.
Religious retreat - we can foresee objections from those on the retreat that their sought after peace and quiet is somewhat disturbed.
From underneath. Intriguing. Presumably with ther aircraft upside down, flying on its back. Or maybe a camera looking straight up. It may not be easy for the majority of flyers!
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Or looking out from under a bridge which would not be accessible without a drone?
Blue light vehicle could be one on route?
Religeous retreat for example
These were my thinking behind my suggestions
Also is it meant to be easy? Wio Doesn’t like to challenge themselves?
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Agreed.
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!
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I’ll randomly throw in Song Titles & Movie Titles.
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yes i did call them, no i didn’t start the fire. but this shows it can happen at any time or place. 6am Morecambe.
blue lights lit on an emergency vehicle.
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“Here’s looking at you”
Screenshot of a public webcam with the drone looking into the webcam.
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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!
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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.
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That’s a possibility although it hasn’t come up yet. We may have to judge individual cases. Watch this space …
The newly amended list has been processed for the April 3rd to 16th RTF Competition!
Check the result and vote for the subject of your choice here!
