The Macspite and McSteamy era had come to an abrupt end. Suddenly the competition was in new hands and, for the first time it wasn’t competitors who were tied but subjects.
Due to both Nature and Symmetry receiving the same number of votes to be the subject of this fortnight’s RTF competition the Challenges Committee have decided to accept pictures on either theme.
No longer the cottage industry of McMac Productions, the competition and its assets had been grabbed by the faceless apparatchiks of the Challenges Committee. Their first stab at running the RTF was from August the first to the fourteenth, 2021.
The GADC members responded with a cracking set of images. However, one image had to be selected as the winner and that honour went to @kvetner. His picture of an office building, the Stockport Pyramid, was judged the best of all the submissions by a voting panel of his peers:
@rustybarnet gave us both nature and symmetry with his shot of the anti-erosion defences at Sea Palling, Norfolk
Third place went to @Acedrone for his picture of wheat growing near Burton Latimer. Another image to suit both the subjects.
Then the new owners abruptly pulled the plug on the Reason To Fly Competition
McSteamy and Macspite, who had started the institution and had been kept on as consultants by the new management were abruptly dismissed. The disheartened GADC members were offered a pallid imitation of a competition where artistic flair and skill was a distant second to searching out ever more ridiculous scenarios for points and potential prizes. The GADC 4th Birthday Photo and Treasure Hunt was underway.
The second series of RTF had ended.