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

[DCAKen]

3/6/21 – Element Name

The Fe Gate is a very elegant place to eat in Dupont Circle

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[josh]

@drevil 209198 wrote:

3/6/21 – Element Name

I managed to snag six legitimate elements in less than five miles. I was going to choose by lowest atomic number, which would’ve been the Helium Comedy Club. But, if drevil is allowing the element name within other words (and even if not), I’m going to go with this:
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I came for the aluminum, but I’m staying for the insulating and leaded glass as well. For those curious, I was not riding an aluminum bike (#steelisreal). Larger image here.

[Kbikeva]

3/6/21 – Element Name

What a great art ride today with Serdar, Consularrider, SophieCW and LeftyLaura. We managed to see more than 20 works of art in Reston north of the toll road. After the ride and Zocalo Tacos, Lefty Laura and I went in search of elements.

Here’s mine:

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[camiller]

3/6/2021 I’m impressed with all of the element names people are finding. Mine is Silver from the Silver Diner in Fairfax.

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[Kbikeva]

@camiller 209232 wrote:

3/6/2021 I’m impressed with all of the element names people are finding. Mine is Silver from the Silver Diner in Fairfax.

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I thought about Silver Diner about 45 minutes after I rode past it. And then I smacked my forehead because I had spent most of the morning somewhere near the SILVER line Metro and surely could have found a sign. This is one of those that sneaks up on you!

[LisaE]

@drevil 209198 wrote:

3/6/21 – Element Name

So many elemental examples. The one I will present here was my original target —LEAD Day School in Falls Church (an acronym for Language, Education, Arts, & Development). Other elements spotted in the wild: Helium, Platinum, Gold, Silver (https://strava.app.link/fmQO59pNpeb)

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[AlanA]

3/6/21 – Element Name

Thanks to this silly game, I had another nice visit with my brother and his wife. And, it just so happens they have a “titanium” edition car! I didn’t even bother looking for anything else on the ride, bud I did see a Roberts Oxygen truck that I could have also used.

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[AlanA]

@josh 209228 wrote:

I managed to snag six legitimate elements in less than five miles. I was going to choose by lowest atomic number, which would’ve been the Helium Comedy Club. But, if drevil is allowing the element name within other words (and even if not), I’m going to go with this:
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I came for the aluminum, but I’m staying for the insulating and leaded glass as well. For those curious, I was not riding an aluminum bike (#steelisreal). Larger image here.

Technically, the element is “aluminium”. It also shows up that way in the link drevil had in the post.
(Perhaps this is payback for my geese)!

[bikedavid]

@drevil 209198 wrote:

3/6/21 – Element Name

Titanium, symbol Ti. It’s highly resistant to corrosion and has the highest strength to density of any metallic element. It’s used in aircraft because of its strength. A good name for the Ford Focus Titanium!

[CaseyKane50]

3/6/21 – Element Name

Silver is my element of choice.

[historygeek]

3/6/21 element name
Iron (and Rollergirls!)

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[AlanA]

@bikedavid 209238 wrote:

Titanium, symbol Ti. It’s highly resistant to corrosion and has the highest strength to density of any metallic element. It’s used in aircraft because of its strength. A good name for the Ford Focus Titanium!

They appear to have made the “titanium” more plain looking on the newer versions.

[AlanA]

@historygeek 209241 wrote:

3/6/21 element name
Iron (and Rollergirls!)

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Haha, that’s great! Rockville has something very similar. The Free State Roller Derby team plays in an industrial park with lots of scrap metal and concrete places. I’ve even been to some matches! It’s a blast.

[Nadine]

3/6/21 – element – ALUMINUM

On my way back from meeting with Millie in MD, on my detour to the Gold’s gym I was gonna settle for (so much less exciting now that Rumi’s posted a pic of it) I remembered seeing a metal recycle dumpster next to the glass dumpster I’ve used at Quincy Park…. and I remembered it saying ALUMINUM on it….

I’m not sure why there’s a metal bin – metal is collected in curbside recycling pickup. Maybe for the park users? And maybe the nearby apartments don’t get curbside pickup? We do hafta bring glass to the bins – but I hear the recycling process works much better this way, so not complaining.

[Boomer Cycles]

3/6/21 – Element Name: Palladium (#46) and Platinum (#78)

Turns out that [mention]HokieBeth [/mention] and I both work for companies named after periodic elements of the same type of transitional metals (VIIIB) in the same column (10) of the Periodic Chart of Elements! So we met on neutral ground to exchange business cards, and solve today’s scavenger hunt challenge

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