Freezing Saddles 2021 – Daily Photo Scavenger Hunt
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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#post209861I 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:
- Obvs, you should be a participant in Freezing Saddles ’21
- It has to be on a bike ride on the day it was requested
- 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
- 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.
- It has to be posted here on the forum in this thread
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- Only one pic/day. Please don’t pad by adding more than one pic/day
- It has to be a picture, not a video
- 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)
- Unless specified otherwise, your bike does not have to be in the photo. (Rule amended on 1/4/21)
- 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)
- Filters are OK, but no obvious/blatant photoshopping… not that I know anything about such things
Photoshop? by bikecentric, on FlickrScoring: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kgsAzaLIXN-IJMjscyNnQTNvWEp__VzgGBSkJDYrTfs/edit?usp=sharing
- 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.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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:
- Prizes TBD
- Contest starts 1/1/21 and goes until the last day of FS ’21
- Some of these will be hard. Fret not, some will be easy, so skip those days that are too difficult
- 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
- 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
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3/1/21 – pig!
This place has all 3 – a pig likeness, the word pig, and they serve pork. It’s a li’l fancy priced but it’s REALLY good. Now I wanna go again. One day [emoji2358][emoji1744]
Good thing Drevil doesn’t dock points for lack of originality. I knew last night when I saw what today’s challenge was that I was gonna go here – but Cate got here first [emoji16][emoji1744]
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@drevil 208872 wrote:
3/1/21 – Pig or BBQ Joint
I figured I’d go to Reading Terminal Market to find Philbert the Pig. I was going to grab a sandwich for lunch from a vegan deli I’ve never been to that’s there, but I cut it a little close and flatted (too much broken glass) on my way there, and I didn’t want to risk being late for a meeting. I ended up squeezing in a trip after work ended and before the market closed — no sandwich though
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I decided I shouldn’t rub his snout under the mask, but posing with him would be acceptable.
3/1 pig or bbq
2 Fifty Texas BBQ — best in the DMV, minutes from my house, part-time employer of my daughter
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@drevil 208872 wrote:
3/1/21 – Pig or BBQ Joint
National Pig Day has been celebrated on March 1 since 1972, when it was started by two sisters, one of who said the purpose of the day is “to accord the pig its rightful, though generally unrecognized, place” as one of the most intelligent domesticated animals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Pig_Day
On your ride, find a pig, whether it be the word or a likeness …orrrr… you can go the opposite way and find a BBQ joint that serves pork (preferably one you’d recommend). This brings up one thing that I always thought was funny: why do some restaurants have a cheery icon of the animal you are about to eat (e.g. Hot N Juicy or Pollo Campero)? Have those animals not watched Soylent Green or Cloud Atlas? :confused:
Happy hunting!
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3/1/21 – Pig or BBQ Joint
Picture of a pig in the sign for Dave’s Famous BBQ, located in the shopping center at the intersection of Hunter Mill Rd and 123 in Oakton. Smelled delicious but this vegan was not tempted to the grab some bbq to go. I was having tires installed on my car in Vienna (at C&C, they are THE. BEST. independent automotive maintenance place in NVA, btw) so took a little ride while the work was being done. Headed south, weaving through the neighborhoods east and west of busy 123 until I got to Dave’s in Oakton.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
3/1 – pig or BBQ
Honey Pig BBQ in Annandale, I really want to visit (and actually eat inside) soon! Nom nom nom!
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3/01/21 – Pig [emoji200]
Like [mention]LisaE [/mention] and [mention]bikesnick [/mention], I knew exactly where to go for this one: the passel of pigs at Don Beyer Volvo dealership in the Little City of Falls Church VA.
The official title of the work is the straightforwardly descriptive “The Man Slopping Pigs.” It was created by artist Richard Beyer, brother of Don Beyer Sr., who founded the dealership in 1973. The cast-aluminum statue went up in 1984 and cost $25,000.
“We were having a discussion over a bottle of 101-proof Wild Turkey late one night and the inspiration just came to us,” Don Beyer told The Post in 1988.
While some have tried to analogize the work, seeing it as a symbol of special interests feeding at the government trough, the inspiration behind it was much more personal: The Beyer brothers grew up on Springhill Farm in McLean, where their mother, Clara, kept pigs.
“She honored pigs highly,” said Richard Beyer, who now lives in New York City. “They are marvelous animals.”
The statue has become a Falls Church landmark. For a while it achieved a modicum of fame as the setting for a peculiar sort of photo shoot. Members of the Hogettes — the cross-dressing, snout-wearing Redskins fans who worshiped the Hogs, the team’s offensive line in the 1980s — would come out regularly to have their pictures taken near the shiny metal porkers.
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3-1-21 Pig or BBQ
Another day of sloppy roads from rain all morning and I didn’t have time to ride later in the day.
Since others shared the Green Pig, I’ll share Sloppy Mamas BBQ (and District Taco sneaks in on the right) instead.
Always happy to give a shout out to DT. Delicious Carnitas!
@drevil 208872 wrote:
3/1/21 – Pig or BBQ Joint
National Pig Day has been celebrated on March 1 since 1972, when it was started by two sisters, one of who said the purpose of the day is “to accord the pig its rightful, though generally unrecognized, place” as one of the most intelligent domesticated animals:…
On your ride, find a pig, whether it be the word or a likeness …orrrr… you can go the opposite way and find a BBQ joint that serves pork (preferably one you’d recommend). This brings up one thing that I always thought was funny: why do some restaurants have a cheery icon of the animal you are about to eat (e.g. Hot N Juicy or Pollo Campero)? Have those animals not watched Soylent Green or Cloud Atlas? :confused:
Happy hunting!
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Why do restaurants include icons on the animals they serve? Maybe under the same sort of logic that allowed us to include either a pig *or* a BBQ joint on a date aiming “to accord the pig its rightful, though generally unrecognized, place” as one of the most intelligent domesticated animals”! :rolleyes:
I’m not a huge meat eater, but I used to live near Kenny’s smokehouse on Capitol Hill. It was visited by both Michelle and Barack Obama at different times, prompting a fair bit of confusion: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/all-we-can-eat/post/obamas-visit-to-kennys-bbq-what-does-it-mean/2012/06/18/gJQAk8wVmV_blog.html
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