The problem may be that there aren’t so many cooling towers left. It may be a fair distance to travel for some people to find a surviving one or two.
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You beat me to it 
Only mentioned cooling towers as Willington is about 5 mins drive from my house 
( whereas the seaside is at least 92 miles away)
If cooling towers appear in the birthday competition, we will know where to come 
I think the 'Dolly Zoom looks great and cant wait to go out and try it Im an old man of 69 and Ive also have a pocket 2 with the wifi handle which I have never used so my hopes is to do a video of me doing an FPV video as Ive seen many times and hopefully the Cap Cut will show me how to bind them together 
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Subject list at 13/07/2025
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
Angular
Arid
Art Deco
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
Brutalist Architecture
Canals
Castles
Chimneys
Churches
Cinematic landscape
Circle
City Skylines
Cityscape
Civic Buildings
Cliff edge
Cliff Face
Clock Tower
Clocks
Colours
Construction
Contrasts in nature
Cooling Towers
Council house
Cranes
Crops
Crowded (but not people!)
Curves
Demolition
Derelict
Different/Unusual perspectives
Doubles - Two of the same
Dronie (selfie) in an interesting place
Emergency vehicle with blue lights lit.
Estates
Fairs & Fetes
Farm machinery in motion
Ferris wheel
Fireworks
Five or more equal sides
Folly’s
From underneath
Fun Fairs
Gardens
Gates
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
Interesting brickwork
Iron Age/Roman Forts
Isolation
Jet Skis
Lakes
Landscapes
Landscapes without Buildings
Lavender fields*
Letters
Life boat / craft
Light
Light Trails
Lighthouse
Lights
Long exposure (night)
Marinas
Marshland
Mazes
Meandering Rivers and streams
Military Sites WW1
Military Sites WW2
Mills
Monochrome landscape
Monument
Motor Sport
Motorway services
Movie Titles
Moving vehicles
Moving Water
Murals
National Trust properties
Nature
Nightshots
Non League football ground
One colour only
Only by drone
Outdoor swimming pool
Oval
Patterns
Patterns in the Landscape
Picnic
Piers
Places of worship
Ponds
Portraits
Ports
Prehistoric
Public Transport
Rails
Railway Architecture
Red
Religious retreat
Repurposed
Rescue
Reservoir
Rivers
Roads
Rocks
Rooftops
Roundabout at dusk
Seascapes
Scrap
Shadows
Shiny
Song Titles
Sports Grounds
Spring*
Square
Stadia
Stations
Statues
Steps & stairs
Still Water
Straight Down
Straight Lines
Summer*
Sunflowers*
Sunrise/Sunset
Superstitions
Symmetry
Tall chimney
Tallest
Tilt Shift
traffic
Trains/Trams
Trees
Triangular
Trig Point
Tunnels
Ugly buildings
Unusual Homes
Vessels
Victorian engineering
Was a cinema.
Wabi-sabi
Water
Water Tower
Waterfalls
Weight
Weird and wonderful traffic islands!
White Lines
Windmill
Winter*
Wreckage
Xmas lights*
Zigzags
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Can I suggest “Brutalist Architecture,” “Scrap,” or “Wabi-Sabi,” as possible inclusions next time the list is produced?
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Thanks for the suggestions!
We have ugly buildings which, depending on your point of view might be thought of as brutalist architecture but yes, we will put it in as a separate topic.
Scrap - as in discarded material rather than two blokes having a pagga?
Wabi-sabi, That’s a new one on us. Mr Google says
Wabi-sabi is
a Japanese aesthetic and philosophical worldview that finds beauty in imperfection, impermanence, and simplicity. Rooted in Zen Buddhism and the tea ceremony, it teaches acceptance of the natural cycle of growth and decay, encouraging appreciation for rustic, weathered, or flawed objects and moments.
We’ll give it a go …
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Yes scrap as in scrapyards, shipwrecks (oooh, there’s another suggestion) etc, rather than any pictures of fights 
Whats wrong with this one, at least I’d have shed loads of opportunity being in the middle between Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Stoke! 
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Ditto Blackpool.
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Updated RTF Drone Photo Challenge Subject list at 18/04/2026
Further suggestions welcome!
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
Angular
Arid
Art Deco
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
Brutalist Architecture
Canals
Castles
Chimneys
Churches
Cinematic landscape
Circle
City Skylines
Cityscape
Civic Buildings
Cliff edge
Cliff Face
Clock Tower
Clocks
Colours
Construction
Contrasts in nature
Cooling Towers
Council house
Cranes
Crops
Crowded (but not people!)
Curves
Demolition
Derelict
Different/Unusual perspectives
Doubles - Two of the same
Dronie (selfie) in an interesting place
Emergency vehicle with blue lights lit.
Estates
Fairs & Fetes
Farm machinery in motion
Ferris wheel
Fireworks
Five or more equal sides
Folly’s
From underneath
Fun Fairs
Gardens
Gates
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
Interesting brickwork
Iron Age/Roman Forts
Isolation
Jet Skis
Lakes
Landscapes
Landscapes without Buildings
Lavender fields*
Letters
Life boat / craft
Light
Light Trails
Lighthouse
Lights
Long exposure (night)
Marinas
Marshland
Mazes
Meandering Rivers and streams
Military Sites WW1
Military Sites WW2
Mills
Monochrome landscape
Monument
Motor Sport
Motorway services
Movie Titles
Moving vehicles
Moving Water
Murals
National Trust properties
Nature
Nightshots
Non League football ground
One colour only
Only by drone
Outdoor swimming pool
Oval
Patterns
Patterns in the Landscape
Picnic
Piers
Places of worship
Ponds
Portraits
Ports
Prehistoric
Public Transport
Rails
Railway Architecture
Red
Religious retreat
Repurposed
Rescue
Reservoir
Rivers
Roads
Rocks
Rooftops
Roundabout at dusk
Seascapes
Scrap
Shadows
Shiny
Song Titles
Sports Grounds
Spring*
Square
Stadia
Stations
Statues
Steps & stairs
Still Water
Straight Down
Straight Lines
Summer*
Sunflowers*
Sunrise/Sunset
Superstitions
Symmetry
Tall chimney
Tallest
Tilt Shift
traffic
Trains/Trams
Trees
Triangular
Trig Point
Tunnels
Ugly buildings
Unusual Homes
Vessels
Victorian engineering
Was a cinema.
Wabi-sabi
Water
Water Tower
Waterfalls
Weight
Weird and wonderful traffic islands!
White Lines
Windmill
Winter*
Wreckage
Xmas lights*
Zigzags
E&OE
Building sites, Lanes, Locks, Clouds, Fence/Hedge, Silhouettes
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Broadway.
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Next time you drive where they’ve laid the new high power cable, there’s more examples
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Coastlines
Dams
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How about education?
(probably without kids 
)
Could be problematic depending on the images created.
Pictures of Oxbridge colleges or their red-brick equivalents would be ok. Images of primary schools could cause hassle at the time of taking for the photographer …
This one will go on the back burner
Where I went in my early twenties has now become Lunn University