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

[bigredboiler]

2/20/21 – Overhead Picture from “Such Great Heights” (+1 point for including biker)

Feeling lucky I found someone on a bike relatively quick. Rode up to the top of the Ballston parking garage, and spotted this guy heading my way in the photo.
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[Boomer Cycles]

02/20/21 – Overhead picture from “Such Great Heights”
… or the 4th floor of the Holiday Inn where I started and ended my #decasleaze ride, along a River so never really attained high ground, today. All the bridges I crossed today were either over water or 6-lane motor highways, and no one crazy enough to be out Cycling except for yours truly. However my bike is in the back of a rental car circled in the pic, but you can’t see it, so I cannot count the +1 pointless point [emoji1787]

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[Boomer Cycles]

@LeftyLaura 208247 wrote:

While not born in NJ I spent my formative years there and use my NJ driving skills to great advantage when I return (NJ driving with out-of-state plates is the best). I’d ask you to get KBikeVA to attest that I am not among ever worse, aggressive JRZ drivers! You’re just picking on us before we go to the Maul.

Ha! We should go for an aggressive driving challenge sometime, as I was born, weened and licensed in JRZ … now if I only still owned a car [emoji594][emoji1787]
Oh, and I must asked: did you come of age in the land of pork roll or Taylor’s Ham?

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[smb9600]

2/20/21 – Overhead Picture

Cyclists turned down the path just as I was turning away. Snapped a quick photo before they disappeared into the tunnel (phew!)

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[Sophie CW]

2/20/21 – Overhead Picture from “Such Great Heights” (+1 point for including biker)
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Couldn’t get to a bridge today… but this photo is from a hill overlooking a frozen pond in the Cabin Branch community in Clarksburg, MD. No cyclists in sight, but there was a red car.

[drevil]

2/21/21 – the round Peace symbol or the word “peace” (in any language)

British designer and artist Gerald Holtom introduced the peace symbol to an anti-nuclear pacifist organization on February 21, 1958. It represents the letters “N” and “D” (in semaphore) for “Nuclear Disarmament”.

On your ride, find the peace symbol (not the Mercedes logo!) or the word “peace”, which can be in any language.

Happy hunting!

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[bikedavid]

@drevil 208258 wrote:

2/20/21 – Overhead Picture from “Such Great Heights” (+1 point for including biker)

The parking lot of Cardozo High School has a great skyline view of DC. Apparently a popular make out spot too!

[mootsfy]

2/20/21 – Overhead picture (+1 with cyclist)

[sszibler]

2/20/21 Overhead Picture from “Such Great Heights” 13th & Longfellow

Washington Monument in the view

[Nadine]

@Kbikeva 208316 wrote:

I don’t see other folks’ strava routes – just responding to her posting, “From my balcony” … if I had that view and today’s wind that we had, I would have thought twice about going out. Alas, I had to go out and discover there were no other cyclists out when I was.

Yeah but she hasn’t missed a day on her bike since [emoji848]~ 2012-13?

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[josh]

@drevil 208327 wrote:

2/21/21 – the round Peace symbol or the word “peace” (in any language)

Nice and simple!
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Primary architect was David Linquist. This sculpture was made less than a decade after the symbol was created!

[CBGanimal]

2/21/21 the round Peace symbol or the word “peace” in any language
Paz means peace in Spanish and this Plaza was dedicated to it!!

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[LhasaCM]

2/21 – Peace

Peace sign as part on long-enduring anti-nuclear vigil/protest outside the White House, pushed to H Street because of the extended security perimeter.

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[rumipumi]

2/21 [emoji3522] peace symbol

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[DCAKen]

2/21/21 – the round Peace symbol or the word “peace” (in any language)

Since the Peace Memorial at the Capitol is now barricaded, I headed to the other end of the Mall to visit the Institute of Peace

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