The Great Big GADC 6th Birthday and Treasure Hunt Challenge!

The competition runs until mid September

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5. Public Art - be it a large sculpture, or street painting, it must be a work of art that can be seen by the casual passerby i.e. not in a gallery. Witty or Banksy-style graffiti is acceptable, plain old tags are not

  • Bonus point for a Wikipedia link.
  • Bonus point if six or more people are looking at it (not just passing).

Taken 13/8/23 in Bristol - Mini 3 Pro

Butterfly Concerto by Cheba is part of the Unicornfest to celebrate the 650th anniversary of Bristol

I claim 3 points

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And another 3 points in the bag @DroneGeek

21. Intermodal Containers - six or more (shipping containers)

  • Bonus point for more than 15.
  • Bonus point for all one colour and logo.
  • Bonus point for all being 40-foot dry freight (general purpose) ISO containers.

More than 15 Tesco branded blue 40 foot containers.

I claim 4 points

Taken 17/8/23 in Wentloog freightliner depot in Wales with Mini 3 Pro

No sooner has the train stopped, the containers are whisked off by telehandlers (sadly yellow!) - so whilst there are more than 15 severeral are stacked so that the logos are not visible.

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4 points awarded Ian

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Long day - had to hang around for a few hours as whilst an earlier shot would have shown more than 15 blue containers you couldn’t see the logo on them all.

@Challenges_Committee

Been asked by someone who is happy to take part, about this.

Being all-inclusive as we should be these days - would sitting on a chair be acceptable?

Not all people can easily get down or more importantly get back up!

Would hate to exclude people to due to disabilities etc.

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If a physical condition prevents someone from lying on the ground without effort or discomfort then please invite them to join in tthe “Six” in any sensible manner possible.

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Picture Taken 8th Aug (was hoping to get better) at 21:17 for the picture and same date but at 22:16 the Timelapse using a dji mini3 pro, location was Brownsover roundabout in Rugby

Would like to claim 4 points for

  1. Vehicle light trails :heavy_check_mark:
  • Bonus point for [timelapse 6] :heavy_check_mark:(Time-lapse photography - Wikipedia)
  • Bonus point if light trails are on a roundabout.:heavy_check_mark:
  • Bonus point if there are light trails on each of the roads serving the roundabout - minimum 4 roads.:heavy_check_mark:

Never loaded a video from YouTube so hope it works

Claim 4 points please

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Four points added!

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Challenges Committee, just a thought ( idea from someone else ) If a member is holding a meet up for the birthday challenge, say at 12pm somewhere, would it be within the rules to organise a meet up at the same place at 12:30pm ? Or would this be considered bending the rules ?

We think your fellow competitors would consider it unsportsmanlike.

As this competition progresses it does become a touch fraught with competitors understandably getting agitated when they see a juicy cash prize potentially slipping from their fingers because of someone else’s sharp practice.

We cannot stop you from doing as you suggest but we would not award points if the venue remained the same, the cards were the same and the cake was the same.

So hold your second meet a couple of miles away, make a second set of cards and a second cake. And, ideally if Ahosted the first meet with B as a GADC guest, then B, hosting the second meet would be advised to invite C instead of A. And some new non-GADC attendees.

So second entry and a second new experience for me
attempting to upload from kuula here it goes.

Taken today 18/08/23 @ 12:10ish using a dji mini3 pro location was The Charterhouse a grade 1 listed building it sits in Coventry airports frz

I’m going for a full house 5 points.

  1. A Listed Building - within an FRZ and photographed from within that FRZ - permission must be obtained prior to flight 2 and proof of permission posted along with your image.
    A successful submission will be awarded 3 points.
  • Bonus point for Wikipedia entry.
  • Bonus point for 360x180 (spherical) panorama (host on Kuula).

Listed building and Wikipedia entry

Proof of permission is via a email (have challenge committee approval) as the Cov ATC drone page wasn’t working

(Ignore the time I got it extended due to rain)

Picture of listed building:

Now the kuula 360 post :crossed_fingers:t2:

Would like to claim 5 point’s please (fingers crossed it works)

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It all looks good, Greg. 5 points.

So second entry and a second new experience for me
attempting to upload from kuula

Daunting at first try, it gets easier the more you try. Part of the idea behind this Challenge is to get people to try new things outwith their comfort zone :slight_smile:

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Definitely is doing that for me (and the girlfriend as try and drag her along as much as possible lol)

  1. A Graveyard

Bonus point if there is someone famous (which most people would have heard of, not just a local celebrity) buried in the graveyard (wikilink or photo of the gravestone or similar for proof).

Claiming 2 points, bonus being the grave of Anne Bronte
 to be found at St Marys Church Graveyard in Scarborough. Anne’s grave is across the small road from the main church hence it looks like an allotment.

Taken 16th Aug 23 with a DJI Mini SE.

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2 points awarded.

Thats it, thank you! Dont think the sea air did her any good.

Not the first time this one has been used, but you can’t have too much of the thought-provoking subject.

5. Public Art - be it a large sculpture, or street painting, it must be a work of art that can be seen by the casual passerby i.e. not in a gallery. Witty or Banksy-style graffiti is acceptable, plain old tags are not

  • Bonus point for a Wikipedia link.
  • Bonus point if six or more people are looking at it (not just passing).

Scarborough, DJI Mini 3 Pro 17/8/23

The Wikipedia entry is Freddie Gilroy and the Belsen Stragglers - Wikipedia

There are 6 people looking at the art (including a couple reading the information board and a couple climbing on it).

3 points claimed, please

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3 points awarded. It looks as though you flew toward the end of a sunny evening when more people were around.