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

[Nadine]

@bikesnick 207607 wrote:

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.
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Hahaha I needed BOOMER! I can just see him talking to the worker. I’m picturing him doing it on Spanish. But he can do Puerto Rican smooth in English too. Just perfect. Nice one!

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[bikedavid]

@drevil 207560 wrote:

2/11/21 – Movie Poster

Many of the movie theaters in DC are boarded up or have their movie posters removed but there are some inside the little Sun Cinema in Mt Pleasant. A bit hard to see but those are posters of Godzilla on the wall.

[Nadine]

2/11/21 – movie poster

….or lack thereof

I went to the state theater. I was reminded when I got there & saw the posters that it’s really a music venue. [emoji2358] So I biked to Ballston regal cinemas – but their posters are probably all inside and upstairs. I thought they might have something outside. Uh yeah, Nadine – maybe when they open.

I wasn’t gonna go to court house at that point. I hadda get home and finish making the pizza I got inspired to make a coupla days ago on PIZZA DAY! I forgot to take a pic of me eating a slice for Josh [emoji16] I’ll do that tomorrow – there’s enough for 3 dinners.

Here’s one of the posters I got at the state theater, for your viewing entertainment [emoji16]

It’s different, anyhow. Wish I’d thought of the Arlington Cinema & Drafthouse – great place.

I’m another one for breaking away. But now I really wanna see the movie Cbganimal talked about.

[emoji3531]

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[drevil]

2/12/21 – Ox

In 2021, the Chinese Zodiac sign is the Ox, and it begins on February 12.

On your ride, find the likeness of an ox (or any bovine) or the letter combo “ox” out in the wild. If you are seeking the letters “ox”, they just have to be beside each other in that order, but they can be within another word.

Happy hunting!

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[Sophie CW]

2/11/21 – Movie Posters across the street from the temporarily-closed Rockville Regal
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My favorite bike movie would have to be ET: The Extra-Terrestrial

[bigredboiler]

2/11/21 – Movie Poster

Today’s weather forecast for snow ended up being a bust, but I didn’t plan on much riding today. Luckily, I had time for a grocery run, so I tacked on a ride to Courthouse cinemas. I found a movie poster, albeit only a single one in the whole area.
Tonight, I, unsuccessfully, tried to find a poster outside around Ballston. A big bust, until on the way I remembered seeing one on a wall inside a house recently when walking my dog….so I snagged a pic of that through some barely cracked blinds

For the purposes of sharing, you get the Wonder Woman poster from Courthouse.
As for bike movies, I enjoyed reading everyone’s suggestions.
As an IU grad, I should say Breaking Away. I’m surprised I didn’t see any mentions of the recent sarcastic parody movie, Tour de Pharmacy

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[secstate]

2/11/21 – Movie poster

Godzilla @ Suns

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[CBGanimal]

2/11/21 – Ox (or any Bovine)

The king of Spanish Bovines! It is the Mascot for Osborne Whiskey,
but when Spain decided that advertisements for liquor along the highway were not such a good idea…Osborne took off their label. But the Bull was so well known to Spanish vistas many of them have been turned into parks or off highway rest stops!

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[josh]

@drevil 207649 wrote:

2/12/21 – Ox

I’m not sure why I felt like I should be in this photo, but the heart wants what it wants. Found a rock, moved it, spent too long aiming/balancing my phone, triggered the timer, and hustled up the icy/snowy steps to the bull.
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This whole statue/monument is in the Eakins Oval in front of the Art Museum.

[bikedavid]

@drevil 207649 wrote:

2/12/21 – Ox

I think a buffalo is a bovine. Happy Year of the Ox!

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

I’ve seen this and taken a photo — several years ago on a bike tour I led in southern Spain.

[HokieBeth]

2/12 Ox or Bovine

At the toy store in Shirlington, see bike reflection in window

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[komorebi]

@drevil 207649 wrote:

2/12/21 – Ox

2/12/2021 — ox (or any bovine). In front of Cheesetique in Shirlington:

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[tomacsh]

2/12/21–Year of the Ox

过年好 guò nián hǎo
Happy New Year!

This ox is ready to do some work with his plow, although I think the ground may be a little frozen still…

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[CaseyKane50]

2/12/21 – Ox

On your ride, find the likeness of an ox (or any bovine) or the letter combo “ox” out in the wild.

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On my way to Alexandria’s fort WBTWD, I spied a bovine on the side of the Junction Bakery at 1508 Mount Vernon Avenue. Good pastries and sandwiches. They have outdoor dining spaces.

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