Freezing Saddles 2021 – Daily Photo Scavenger Hunt

[drevil]

EDIT 3/23/21 – FINAL RESULTS POST: http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?18102-Freezing-Saddles-2021-Daily-Photo-Scavenger-Hunt&p=210265#post210265
EDIT 3/17/21 – FINAL WEEK POST HERE: http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?18102-Freezing-Saddles-2021-Daily-Photo-Scavenger-Hunt&p=209861#post209861

I love taking photos, and having a goal usually ups the fun factor, so I’m doing a daily photo scavenger hunt.

Every night, I’ll post something you have to take a picture of the next day (along with the date). I’ll try my best to post before midnight.

It might be an object (a stop sign), a theme (something blue), specific (e.g., a bike laying on the ground), vague (e.g., confusion), a mish-mash of those, or none of those.

Rules:

1. Obvs, you should be a participant in Freezing Saddles ’21
2. It has to be on a bike ride on the day it was requested
3. It has to be posted on the day for which it was requested, i.e., 12:01 AM EST to 11:59 PM EST for the day it was requested. Sorry, I won’t count ones that aren’t posted for the day it was requested. That’s part of the challenge
4. The reason I say “for the day it is requested” is because I might do requests a few days ahead of time, but don’t take and/or post the pic until that day comes.
5. It has to be posted here on the forum in this thread
6. There should be text either in the title or in the post with the date and the found object/theme. Another option is to “Reply With Quote” the post with the request, i.e., simply click that button on the bottom right of my request so it is quoted above your picture
7. Description, short backstory or location are optional (but nice). That said, if your pic is abstract or not obviously relatable to my request, please explain (e.g., I ask for “happiness”, and you post a pic of a tennis ball you found on a ride, please explain how that tennis ball = happiness)
8. It has to be a picture you took, so if you’re in it, it either has to be a selfie or done with a self-timer
9. Only one pic/day. Please don’t pad by adding more than one pic/day
10. It has to be a picture, not a video
11. Let’s stick to things you find out there during your ride, and not things that you bring or make yourself (unless otherwise specified). Example 1: if I say find “2021”, don’t scratch it into dirt. Example 2: if I say find a flower, don’t bring a flower with you on your ride and take a pic of that. This kinda takes the fun out of looking for things, which is the whole point. (Rule added on 1/2/21)
12. Unless specified otherwise, your bike does not have to be in the photo. (Rule amended on 1/4/21)
13. Found item needs to be clear and discernible (or legible if text) in the picture. If you are using Tapatalk and are having trouble posting pics that are large enough, let us know and I/we can try to help you with it. (Rule added on 1/3/21)
14. Filters are OK, but no obvious/blatant photoshopping… not that I know anything about such things

Photoshop? by bikecentric, on Flickr

Scoring: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kgsAzaLIXN-IJMjscyNnQTNvWEp__VzgGBSkJDYrTfs/edit?usp=sharing

1. If you follow all the rules above, it’s 1 point/picture. I’ll like your pic if I have added the point to the tally sheet.
2. If I feel like you haven’t met all the rules, I’ll give you .25 points for the effort (Added on 1/11/21)
3. I’ll keep a tally with your forum name. I may reach out to you via the forum’s messaging, or ask you to reach out to me in a post in this thread.
4. EDIT ON 3/17/21: THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN ANYMORE -> At the end of FS, every like in each of your pic posts = +1 point. I’ll add these up at the end
   So for example, your pic has met all the conditions at the top, and has 3 likes. That will add 4 points (1 for the pic +3 for the likes) to your pot.

Notes:

1. Prizes TBD
2. Contest starts 1/1/21 and goes until the last day of FS ’21
3. Some of these will be hard. Fret not, some will be easy, so skip those days that are too difficult
4. Don’t ever ever ever ever do anything that can put you in danger or will result in hurting yourself. I promise I won’t ask for any pics of you riding on the Beltway
5. I might post pics, but mine don’t count in the contest

EDIT 3/17/21 -SEE FINAL WEEK POST HERE: http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?18102-Freezing-Saddles-2021-Daily-Photo-Scavenger-Hunt&p=209861#post209861

Topic

[Boomer Cycles]

@NoVaNoobGA 203912 wrote:

Please don’t DQ me because … #atleastIdidn’tjustcropthephoto

I resemble that remark!

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[rumipumi]

1/5/21 – on National Bird Day, take a pic of a bird. Let your imagination fly. Happy hunting!

[komorebi]

@drevil 203953 wrote:

1/5/21 – on National Bird Day, take a pic of a bird. Let your imagination fly. Happy hunting!

1/5/2021 — bird. Here’s my bike at Sena’s Totem, a chainsaw sculpture by Andrew Mallon in Oak Grove Park in Arlington. There’s an owl at the top. There’s another bird perched on the windowsill on the other side, but I’m not including a photo of that side because of drevil’s hardarsedness.

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Many thanks to Bike Arlington for putting together a tour of five of Andrew’s chainsaw sculptures, which inspired me to go check them out!

[JoM]

@komorebi 203988 wrote:

Many thanks to Bike Arlington for putting together a tour of five of Andrew’s chainsaw sculptures, which inspired me to go check them out!

Thanks for sharing the link to the tour, we’ll need to head out to VA to check it out!

[drevil]

Thanks for all the submissions, and for putting good Italian restaurants on our radars.

I’m sorry that I didn’t give a point to historygeek, NoVaNoobGA, and Mootsfy because they had pics with “zz” in the sign, but that was specific in the hunt request. No worries though, we have maaaaaaaaaany more hunts to go before the end of Freezing Saddles

Latest and greatest tally: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kgsAzaLIXN-IJMjscyNnQTNvWEp__VzgGBSkJDYrTfs/

Yes, as some have noted, bikes are not required to be in the picture unless specifically requested for that day’s photo hunt.

[josh]

@drevil 203953 wrote:

1/5/21 – on National Bird Day, take a pic of a bird. Let your imagination fly. Happy hunting!

It’s a little too cold for an actual flamingo, so I present to you:
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[Mtansill]

@drevil 203953 wrote:

1/5/21 – on National Bird Day, take a pic of a bird. Let your imagination fly. Happy hunting!

1/5/2021 – A Bird
There are many birds out there, far and wide. I chose this guy as my bird. At least he told me he was a bird… mural along the metropolitan branch trail in DC:
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[drevil]

@accordioneur 203942 wrote:

For the record, so far this game is way ahead of Calvinball in the number of rule changes :rolleyes:

Calvinball has had a few years to settle in, while this has had a few days. I’ve made the rules because it already takes me long enough to tally them.

For example, imagine if I didn’t say to post just one picture a day. I’d have to quit my job just to get through the posts.

Imagine also if I didn’t say to post your pic from that day’s hunt. I have seen in other games where people waited until the last day to post all their findings. I am not going to go through 3000 pictures on the last day.

What about the rule I added later about not bringing something from home? It’s just too easy to grab something in your house, go outside on a bike ride and snap a pic of it. I didn’t expect that someone would do that, but it happened, so I had to specify to please not do that. What’s the point of the photo hunt if you aren’t going to go look for something?

After a few tries, it becomes easy enough.

Thanks to all that have played and are playing

[cvcalhoun]

@drevil 203991 wrote:

Latest and greatest tally: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kgsAzaLIXN-IJMjscyNnQTNvWEp__VzgGBSkJDYrTfs/
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Looks like the tally missed my bird.

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[JoM]

@cvcalhoun 204001 wrote:

Looks like the tally missed my bird.

He probably won’t update the spreadsheet until after midnight tonight!

[drevil]

@cvcalhoun 204001 wrote:

Looks like the tally missed my bird.

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Nope, haven’t started yet. It’s fuzzy when I do the tally, but it’s easiest to do it the day after so I can just see everyone’s all at once. If you don’t see it sometime tomorrow afternoon, then ping me.

Also, I try my best to like each post after updating on the tally sheet.

[bigredboiler]

@komorebi 203988 wrote:

1/5/2021 — bird. Here’s my bike at Sena’s Totem, a chainsaw sculpture by Andrew Mallon in Oak Grove Park in Arlington. There’s an owl at the top. There’s another bird perched on the windowsill on the other side, but I’m not including a photo of that side because of drevil’s hardarsedness.

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Many thanks to Bike Arlington for putting together a tour of five of Andrew’s chainsaw sculptures, which inspired me to go check them out!

Thanks for the insight to the chainsaw art….definitely on my to-do list!

[accordioneur]

@drevil 203953 wrote:

1/5/21 – on National Bird Day, take a pic of a bird. Let your imagination fly. Happy hunting!

I knew that a ride along Four Mile Run and the MVT would yield lots of opportunities for bird photos. Indeed it did – I wish I could show you all of them, but y’know, contest rule 9. Anyway, this photo from the Gravely Point parking lot is my favorite. I think this guy has a trip to the car wash in his future.

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[HokieBeth]

@drevil 203953 wrote:

1/5/21 – on National Bird Day, take a pic of a bird. Let your imagination fly. Happy hunting!

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This bird follows me everywhere. You might say she’s always on my back. [emoji2370]
(Photo taken mid-ride)

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[komorebi]

@bigredboiler 204009 wrote:

Thanks for the insight to the chainsaw art….definitely on my to-do list!

@JoM 203989 wrote:

Thanks for sharing the link to the tour, we’ll need to head out to VA to check it out!

Yes, the chainsaw sculptures are definitely worth checking out. If you end up riding to see them, my suggested RWGPS route is here. The cuesheet has more detailed directions than BikeArlington’s.

[Author]

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