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

[Rod Smith]

1/5/2021 bird

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[LeftyLaura]

1/5/21 – on National Bird Day, A rare Ciconia Ciconia spotted in Herndon.
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[Brownws]

Oh, that’s not obviously Photoshopped. Not at all. LOL

Apparently google uses the same tech.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Juae2gah2SNT6jtN6

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[drevil]

1/6/21 – Small Business that features beans. Happy hunting!

Not only is it National Bean Day, it’s Rowan Atkinson’s (aka Mr Bean) birthday! Small business definitely means no Chipotle, Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts, and Baja Fresh. Again, it’d be cool if it’s a place you actually like – and if you’d want to – explain why.

Please remember in your posts to either reply/quote this or write the date and what the hunted object is

[Shabooya]

1/5/21 National Bird Day

Spotted this flamingo on my ride tonight.

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Edit: don’t know why it posted sideways and I have 1% battery! Just enough to post this maybe, not enough to fix it.

Edit to the edit: Righting the wrong did not work. Possibly made it worse.

[Brownws]

@Kbikeva 204029 wrote:

Next to the word “Ubiquitous” in the dictionary and also in every smidgen of water in the area. Hey Canada, take your geese back!

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It’s gotten kinda spooky. Lake Artemesia had over a 100 on the surface.

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[bikedavid]

@consularrider 204080 wrote:

Gulls on the American Veterans Memorial Pier at Owls Head, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

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Instead of synchronized swimming, synchronized gawking!

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[komorebi]

@drevil 204117 wrote:

1/6/21 – Small Business that features beans. Happy hunting!

1/6/2021 — beans. Abyssinia Market in Alexandria. The owner suffered a despicable attack by a man who refused to wear a mask inside her store. The subsequent outpouring of community support restored some of my faith in humanity, though. I was glad to have an excuse to stop by and lend my support by quaxing.

Bean connection: Abyssinia serves “Ethiopian locally roasted yergacheffe coffee,” according to its Facebook page. I’m not a coffee drinker, so one of the Forum’s resident coffee snobs will have to tell me what that means.

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[josh]

@drevil 204117 wrote:

1/6/21 – Small Business that features beans.

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I tried to figure out the connection between beans and a beauty salon, but my search came up blank. Fun fact — four ancient Roman families have bean names (Cicero, Lentulus, Fabius, and Piso).

[CBGanimal]

@drevil 204117 wrote:

1/6/21 – Small Business that features beans. Happy hunting!

Spain doesn’t really do coffee bean coffee places…they sell some at stores but a small selection. So I picked this place because Sierra and I visited here one afternoon on our way back from a College tour. We had Cocido Casero which is a brothish soup with Garbanzo Beans in it. It was really good! I would have shown you more but today is a Holiday (3 Kings Day) and everything is closed.

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[bigredboiler]

1/6/21 – Small Biz with Beans

Thinking of Pete Beers this morning. Honoring him w/Cafe Kindred…the normal stop after his 6am hill rides. Get all kinds of coffees & espresso with great dishes to fuel you home after a morning ride.

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[accordioneur]

@drevil 204117 wrote:

1/6/21 – Small Business that features beans. Happy hunting!

District Taco has grown from its food truck origins into a chain of a dozen or so physical locations, but I still consider it a small local business. Yes, I like it, and the reason is in its name – tacos!

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[NoVaNoobGA]

@drevil 204117 wrote:

1/6/21 – Small Business that features beans. Happy hunting!

Not only is it National Bean Day, it’s Rowan Atkinson’s (aka Mr Bean) birthday! Small business definitely means no Chipotle, Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts, and Baja Fresh. Again, it’d be cool if it’s a place you actually like – and if you’d want to – explain why.

Please remember in your posts to either reply/quote this or write the date and what the hunted object is

1/6/21 I did not dilly-DAL-ly in finding some delicious vegetarian dishes featuring beans. Small Indian restaurant in Burke.
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[Boomer Cycles]

@komorebi 204142 wrote:

1/6/2021 — beans. Abyssinia Market in Alexandria. The owner suffered a despicable attack by a man who refused to wear a mask inside her store. The subsequent outpouring of community support restored some of my faith in humanity, though. I was glad to have an excuse to stop by and lend my support by quaxing.

Bean connection: Abyssinia serves “Ethiopian locally roasted yergacheffe coffee,” according to its Facebook page. I’m not a coffee drinker, so one of the Forum’s resident coffee snobs will have to tell me what that means.

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Ethiopia [emoji1098] is the birthplace of coffee, the arabica bean in particular… all sources globally can be tied back genetically to this region of the world. Even the word “coffee” is a derivative of the Kaffa Region in Ethiopia, which is recognized by the United Nations as an UNESCO biosphere reserve because of its coffee connection.
Here is a pic of my hand holding the precious beans while a local expert points to one of the 3 remaining heritage coffee hotspots in Ethiopia that I went to during the course of my work in late 2019, before we knew about the looming pandemic, to help launch an organic wild coffee brand with local coffee farmers.

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[bikesnick]

@drevil 204117 wrote:

1/6/21 – Small Business that features beans. Happy hunting!

1/6/2021
Fava Pot, Falls Church, VA
(They have excellent breakfast, too.)
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