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

[Nadine]

@cvcalhoun 209672 wrote:

I spent the whole “faces” search with the earworm of:

When you’re strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you’re strange
No one remembers your name
When you’re strange
When you’re strange
When you’re strange

Now that one I know like an [emoji2358] earworm myself. But ima look up that rolling Stones song in the morning!

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[josh]

@Nadine 209677 wrote:

Now that one I know like an [emoji2358] earworm myself. But ima look up that rolling Stones song in the morning!

4:26AM isn’t the morning already? Or are you in a different time zone these days?

[Nadine]

@AlanA 209665 wrote:

Nadine. I’m shocked! I was sure you would know this.
Rolling Stones – Dead Flowers.

I listened to it and now I’m kinda surprised myself. A rolling stones song I don’t particularly like – might be a first. [emoji848][emoji1744]

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[Nadine]

@Mtansill 209667 wrote:

Since I had heard that Drevil wasn’t aware that there were so many flowers in bloom right now, it amused me to go out and capture a photo of one of the smaller varieties currently in bloom. Purple dead nettle is commonly known as a “weed,” but is both edible and an important flower to pollinators because it blooms throughout a good portion of the year. Earlier in 2020, I added it to a few sandwiches and salads because we were trying to cut down on our visits to the grocery store during the pandemic. So I think it’s a rather cool plant, and am happy that it has covered a lot of my yard. (But these are not located in my yard – just off the trail about a mile away from home.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamium_purpureum

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This is very cool. The only weed I find in my yard that I know is edible is purslane. Now I wanna know more!

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[LhasaCM]

3/13 – Ladder(s)

House work across from Congressional Cemetery = two ladders!!

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[komorebi]

@drevil 209673 wrote:

3/13/21 – Black Cat, Ladder, or Umbrella

3/13/2021 — black cat. Here’s a flyer at Mount Purrnon Cat Cafe in Alexandria, with a black cat:

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[Nadine]

@josh 209678 wrote:

4:26AM isn’t the morning already? Or are you in a different time zone these days?

Hahaha you got me! I often check here in my middle of the night wakeups (a middle aged development you can look forward to [emoji19]🥱[emoji1744])
I’m still in Arlington, and it IS morning then – but for me it’s still the middle of the night. I hope you all have yr phone volumes off so I’m not disturbing the sleep of my more sensible / better sleeping peeps.

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[rumipumi]

3/13 umbrella-ella-ella

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[bigredboiler]

3/13/21 – Ladder

Found many good luck symbols today; black cat, umbrella, and ladder varieties.
Here is a ladder to nowhere?

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[DCAKen]

3/13/21 – Black Cat, Ladder, or Umbrella

This is the elegant restaurant up in Friendship Heights. I also stopped by the grittier Black Cat club on 14th Street, but that didn’t have an image of a cat.

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[Catedrew]

@drevil 209673 wrote:

3/13/21 – Black Cat, Ladder, or Umbrella

Not only a ladder, but UNDER a ladder!

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[Kbikeva]

This is my second time in 3 days to go back to this mural, this time so my riding buddy, Lefty Laura, could see it and harvest those extra points offered by Boomer2U on PublicArtFinder. But to my delight, as I looked at it again, I realized that the ladders for the fire escape are LADDERS! So they work for today’s scavenger hunt word.

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[Mtansill]

@drevil 209673 wrote:

3/13/21 – Black Cat, Ladder, or Umbrella

Drevil: Go out and photograph a black cat! Do eet noooooooowwww!!!
Me: Well, good thing we have a local feral black cat colony. Yikes. Lol.
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On a more serious note, black cats are harder to home than other cats – for no good reason. So please remember to give some love to a black cat if you’re given the chance. https://nationaltoday.com/news/black-cats-shelters/

[CBGanimal]

3/13/21 – Black Cat, Ladder or Umbrella

This kitty was sunning himself in an empty lot!

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[Varsil]

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