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]

2/27/21 Black or White on a sign

I figured White House Black Market was going to get a lot of free advertising here today. In fact, I made the trip to Old Town part of my ride as well.
I was hoping to serendipitously find B&W elsewhere, and I was thinking of places that might have B&W in print. I lucked out when peeking into a FedEx shop, so sharing that sign instead.

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[Nadine]

@Kbikeva 208777 wrote:

2/27/21 – the words “Black” and/or “White” (any language)

After an interminable Saturday meeting, broke free at 3 and rode to Reston Town Center to take an insurance photo of the same clothing store that others have. That done, I started exploring. I remembered a yard sign that had one of the words and I was hoping it would have an additional sign to complete the pair. No joy, so I rode back to Lake Anne, Reston’s historic center and peeked into the used book shop. SCORE! Couldn’t bring my bike in (there’s barely room enough for people in there), but was able to get this photo … only to realize it’s sideways. Ah well, the words are clear. Thanks drevil for stretching my brain a bit.

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That’s a great book – I read it after I saw/heard James McBride speak at the national book festival. Nice find for today’s photo.

[Nadine]

2/27/21 – the words black or white (or better yet, both) in any language

I went to the Hall’s Hill Wall in Arlington. Some of the wall is still there behind the sign. It’s visible in the pano on my Strava post today – but I used the closer pic for this to make sure the words are legible. Except somehow they’re kinda blurry, here. [emoji848][emoji1744]

The beginning of the sign reads:

This wall is a reminder of racial segregado if the historically African American community of Hall’s Hill. During constructing of the Woodland subdivision in the 1930s, a wall of various materials and heights was built here to separate the BLACKs from the adjacent WHITE neighborhood…..

(I can’t figure out how to do BOLD here so using CAPs instead.)
Glad to see I’m not the only one who went for a racial equality pic for today’s photo. [emoji3590][emoji1377][emoji1434][emoji1548]

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[bikedavid]

@CBGanimal 208756 wrote:

2/27/21 – The words “black” and/or “white” ( in any language) 2 puts for both

Found a bar in the most picturesque town about 25 miles south!

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As a backup plan I was thinking of a restaurant menu with moros y cristianos for black beans and white rice. I wonder if they have it on the menu. [emoji57]

[Kbikeva]

@AlanA 208780 wrote:

2/27/21 – the words “Black” and/or “White” (any language

While in Rockville getting my Civil War sign, I spotted this one close by. What luck! My fallback was a street sign with “white” in it.
This is a story about black and white educators and a court case. I didn’t get the entire sign since I was focused in on the “black and white”

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Nice one! Gibbs was one of those cases that helped set the stage for equal pay as well as a foundation for other extensions of equal rights. Thurgood Marshall was his lawyer and the case was eventually settled before ascending to the heights of precedent. But it helped Marshall work towards the end of segregation of schools. You can read more about it here: https://www.mymcmedia.org/black-history-month-mcm-spotlights-justice-thurgood-marshalls-rockville-roots/

[consularrider]

@drevil 208744 wrote:

2/27/21 – the words “Black” and/or “White” (any language)

On February 27, 1981, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder started recording Ebony and Ivory. Fun fact: while Billboard magazine ranked it #59 of the Hot 100 songs of all-time, Blender magazine named it the tenth worst song of all time.

On your ride, find the word “black” or “white” on a sign. If you capture both words in one snapshot, you’ll get 2 points.

Happy hunting!

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Ok, I couldn’t get them on the same sign. There was a “Black Lives Matter” banner a block west of the Hall, but too far to show up in the same photo.

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[Indiana]

2/27/21 – the words “Black” and/or “White” (any language)
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Black Lives Matter

[smb9600]

2/27/21 – Black &/or White

I learned about a new store today!

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[Serdar]

@drevil 208744 wrote:

2/27/21 – the words “Black” and/or “White” (any language)

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White House Black Market store on King Street in Alexandria

[Serdar]

@smb9600 208797 wrote:

2/27/21 – Black &/or White

I learned about a new store today!

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We had the same idea for today’s photo hunt.

[Serdar]

@HokieBeth 208760 wrote:

2/27 Black & White

White House, black market, grey bike

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I rode to that store too.

[camiller]

2/27/2021 Black & White
White House Black Market clothing store

[josh]

@drevil 208744 wrote:

2/27/21 – the words “Black” and/or “White” (any language)

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BLM sign on the Unitarian church! Tempted to go back out for a double.

[Boomer Cycles]

@drevil 208744 wrote:

2/27/21 –
On your ride, find the word “black” or “white” on a sign. If you capture both words in one snapshot, you’ll get 2

I found it very difficult to find any contemporary or historical sign about racial equality that included the words both “black” and “white” together. I guess that’s emblematic of systemic racism. So the closest I came was with my two riding partners for today, one on a black bike, and the other on a white bike.

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[bikesnick]

@drevil 208744 wrote:

2/27/21 – the words “Black” and/or “White” (any language)
On your ride, find the word “black” or “white” on a sign. If you capture both words in one snapshot, you’ll get 2 points.

On the historic marker at the Tinner Hill Historic Park in Falls Church, VA:
“In 1915, the Town of Falls Church proposed an ordinance to segregate black and white residential sections.”
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