Freezing Saddles 2021 – Daily Photo Scavenger Hunt
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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#post209861I 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:
- Obvs, you should be a participant in Freezing Saddles ’21
- It has to be on a bike ride on the day it was requested
- 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
- 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.
- It has to be posted here on the forum in this thread
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- Only one pic/day. Please don’t pad by adding more than one pic/day
- It has to be a picture, not a video
- 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)
- Unless specified otherwise, your bike does not have to be in the photo. (Rule amended on 1/4/21)
- 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)
- Filters are OK, but no obvious/blatant photoshopping… not that I know anything about such things
Photoshop? by bikecentric, on FlickrScoring: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kgsAzaLIXN-IJMjscyNnQTNvWEp__VzgGBSkJDYrTfs/edit?usp=sharing
- 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.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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:
- Prizes TBD
- Contest starts 1/1/21 and goes until the last day of FS ’21
- Some of these will be hard. Fret not, some will be easy, so skip those days that are too difficult
- 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
- 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
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2/11/21 – Movie Poster
Angelika Film Center (Fairfax, VA) is a great venue for independent and specialty films. Unfortunately it was closed today for a private event. Like DCAKen, I tried getting a picture through windows, but it was too dark inside. Then Boomer2U cycles up looking for the daily photo scavenger picture, too. Boomer found a worker, kindly described what we were doing and asked if we could be allowed inside, with our bicycles, to get a picture. Some what reluctantly, the worker said yes. Score.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]23938[/ATTACH]Teamed up w [mention]bikesnick [/mention] for this one at Angelika at the Mosaic District on Gallows Rd and Lee Hwy (Rt 29) in Fairfax VA
The theatre worker who let us in said “take a picture of PALMER as it’s the only film currently playing” as the theatre opens anew tomorrow after being shuttered by the pandemic.
My favorite bicycle movie is “ET” as he rode in the basket of a Schwinn Stingray and made it fly!! (Though the “Goonies” comes in a close second as it reminds me of my childhood with my homies roaming around on Bikes visiting abandoned “haunted” houses).
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2/11 movie poster
Sad. This was the back up plan after our ride to Greenbelt movie theater. Their marquee said “life is like a box of chocolates; you never know when we’ll open back up”. And they had no movie posters [emoji24]
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2/11/21 movie poster
[Sad trombone] no poster from me. [emoji22]
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2/11/2021 – Movie Poster
Not too easy to find movie posters during a pandemic, but the local Redbox had a bunch of movie posters available.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]23944[/ATTACH]2/11/21 – Movie Poster
I go to the movie theater so often, I thought the AMC Theater in Shirlington was next to the library. Turns out, it’s around the block!
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2/11 – Movie Poster (fail!)
This was depressing. Like Indiana, I tried the Angelika at Union Market and found it dark, but did not come across their great find. I also tried various spots around the area (e.g., construction covers and scaffolding) that even last week had faded ads from last winter’s movies, but no luck. The movie theatre at Gallery Place was stripped bare of posters, and none of the normal museum IMAX theatres seemed to have old posters up for viewing. Lots of similarly depressing faded signs for concerts and plays. The closest to anything on my too long ride tonight was this TV station poster outside WHUT.
As far as a favorite bike movie? Depends on mood, but the first one that popped into mind was the mockumentary Tour de Pharmacy.
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