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

[smb9600]

2/22/21 -Purple House

There are a lot more purple house & houses with purple accents out there than I anticipated!

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[mootsfy]

2/22/21 – Purple House

[Boomer Cycles]

2/22/21 – Purple House

Well, not exactly, but best I could find during my morning #Decasleaze was this house w/ purple shutters & front door. Hoping that the judges will look kindly upon this submission for at least partial credit since it was snowing, sleeting & I risked life/limb with aggressive JRZ drivers who had never encountered a Bike Friday before.

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[Indiana]

2/22/21 – Purple House
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[sdots]

@drevil 208387 wrote:

2/22/21 – Purple House

On February 22, 1994, Prince is granted the trademark on the love symbol he has been using as his name.

On your ride, since Purple Rain might be a little hard to find, seek a purple house. The house does not have to be totally purple — it can have purple shutters or a door. Any shade of purple is fine, as long as it’s not pink.

Happy hunting!

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Coming to you from the St. Paul/Minneapolis BAFS 2021 contingent, I give you actual Purple Rain. It’s not lit at night so the picture sucks, but they probably don’t want idiots like me taking pictures of it 35 years later. (Don’t know why pic is uploading sideways–it was straight on FB post. Did I break the rules because I’m editing this after midnight?)[ATTACH=CONFIG]24783[/ATTACH]

[sszibler]

2/22/21 – Purple House

The mural is on the “Garden” shop on NJ Ave and the purple lights are on 5th St. In real life the lights had less purple and a mix of blues and probably purple and the right side of the mural I think definitely has purple, but in the dark the phone seems to capture something else.

[Nadine]

2/22/21 – Purple house

Dammit I forgot to post it earlier. Hope that’s not a problem. I got it before dark…..

I couldn’t find a purple HOUSE – but I found 3 purple doors. One was really dark. One wad kinda pale. This one was a nice purple. And funny thing, right by the trail [emoji38].

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[cvcalhoun]

2/23/21 – Mosaic (likeness or word)
I believe this is the first time I’ve actually been able to come up with an item without Googling. I had noticed this at St. Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic Church in Bethesda the other day as I biked by it. That was fortunate, because there are absolutely no references to it on Google.

I managed it with only a sleaze ride. Which is just as well, as I also would have gotten an entry in the London Bridge contest for it if that were still being given this year. As I was turning a corner, I ran into a patch of glare ice and the wheels slid out from under me. I hit my head, both brakes released, and the wire came out of the anchor bolt on one of them. I figured that continuing on to get the photo after that was enough, without trying for more than a sleaze ride.

For anyone interested, there is a more professional photo of this (but sans bicycle) at this link.

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[Kbikeva]

@cvcalhoun 208462 wrote:

2/23/21 – Mosaic (likeness or word)
I believe this is the first time I’ve actually been able to come up with an item without Googling. I had noticed this the other day as I biked by it. That was fortunate, because there are absolutely no references to it on Google.

I managed it with only a sleaze ride. Which is just as well, as I also would have gotten an entry in the London Bridge contest for it if that were still being given this year. As I was turning a corner, I ran into a patch of glare ice and the wheels slid out from under me. I hit my head, both brakes released, and the wire came out of the anchor bolt on one of them. I figured that continuing on to get the photo after that was enough, without trying for more than a sleaze ride.

For anyone interested, there is a more professional photo of this (but sans bicycle) at this link.

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Hope your head is okay, Carol! This is beautiful, but maybe not worth a concussion. It looks very Tiffany like. Is it in a private home?

[Kbikeva]

Sarah, I finally found something in a troubleshooting forum for iPhones that has helped me with getting things uploaded straight on the forum. If you imagine that the iPhone is a TV and turn it sideways, the “home” button must be on the right. Since I started doing that, I’ve had no problems – except when I did a selfie. In that case, you need to flip it to have the home button on the left. I don’t know whether this works on other phones.

[CBGanimal]

@cvcalhoun 208462 wrote:

2/23/21 – Mosaic (likeness or word)
Which is just as well, as I also would have gotten an entry in the London Bridge contest for it if that were still being given this year. As I was turning a corner, I ran into a patch of glare ice and the wheels slid out from under me. I hit my head, both brakes released, and the wire

OMG I do hope you are ok!! Sounded awful…

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[CBGanimal]

2/23/21 – Mosaic (likeness or word)

I too knew exactly where I was going! This Torrejon park is a water park in the summer with lots of fountains!

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[josh]

@drevil 208453 wrote:

2/23/21 – Mosaic (likeness or word)

Like CBGanimal, I too knew exactly where I was going to go. Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens!
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This is just the exterior portion abutting South St. I haven’t been on the inside yet, but it’s supposed to be really cool! It’s the work of one artist, Isaiah Zagar, and he’s made a bunch of other murals throughout South Philly. If you look closely, you can see a couple different bike wheels embedded in the wall. Here’s a higher res image.

[komorebi]

@drevil 208453 wrote:

2/23/21 – Mosaic (likeness or word)

2/23/2021 — mosaic. National Harbor has two cool mosaics by artist Cheryl Foster, celebrating notable people and species of the Chesapeake Bay. This part of the mosaic shows the commissioned admiral of the Chesapeake Bay, Carl White, holding a boat’s wheel, and a boatwright. But the mosaics also include a crab picker, a ship’s captain, crabs, and rockfish, pumpkinseed fish, bass, and yellow perch.

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[cvcalhoun]

@Kbikeva 208464 wrote:

Hope your head is okay, Carol! This is beautiful, but maybe not worth a concussion. It looks very Tiffany like. Is it in a private home?

No, it’s a Catholic church. I noticed it in the first place because it struck me as unusual. Most stained glass windows I’ve seen on Catholic churches have been saints or scenes from the life of Jesus. This one is entirely abstract.

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