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

[Kbikeva]

3/14/21 – Since I was out in Leesburg scouting for a public art ride, I looked for street names that might line up with scientists.

Here is Raymond “Ray” Davis Jr. (Davis Dr may or may not be named for him).

DC native born and U of MD grad, Dr. Davis (Yale PhD in physical chemistry) was an American chemist and physicist. He is best known as the leader of the Homestake experiment in the 1960s-1980s, which was the first experiment to detect neutrinos emitted from the Sun; for this he shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics.

For more about him, go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Davis_Jr.

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[DCAKen]

3/14/21 – Scientist

This monument is dedicated to Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, a system of alternative medicine. Hahnemann was a 19th century German physician and chemist and is the first foreigner not associated with the American Revolution to be honored by sculpture in Washington.

The monument could also be see as a reflection of the evolution of the perception of science. Now, homeopathy is seen by many as a pseudoscience (statements beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method). But at the memorial’s unveiling in 1900, the ceremony was attended by President McKinley and many medical professionals.

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[komorebi]

@drevil 209720 wrote:

3/14/21 – Scientist (Name or Likeness)

3/14/2021 — scientist. Grace Hopper Park in Arlington is named after computer scientist Grace Hopper, best known for developing a precursor to COBOL. She was also a rear admiral in the Navy and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Read more at https://www.biography.com/scientist/grace-hopper.

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[AlanA]

3/14/21 – Scientist (Name or Likeness)

I had planned on taking a picture of a park sign at a nice park on the way home, but the sign was gone. Luckily, I took this insurance picture while waiting at a red light.

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She was a marine biologist, and she inspired a grassroots environmental movement that led to the creation of the EPA in 1970.

[Mtansill]

@drevil 209720 wrote:

3/14/21 – Scientist (Name or Likeness)

Happy Birthday, Albert Einstein!
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[bigredboiler]

3/14/21 Scientist

It’s hard to go too far around DMV without seeing signs honoring Dr. Fauci
Here is one with some St. Patty’s Day theme surrounding it.

His accomplishments are many; you might have heard some in the news this past year.
He is director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the chief medical advisor to the president.

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[bikesnick]

@drevil 209720 wrote:

3/14/21 – Scientist (Name or Likeness)

Rosalind Franklin was a British chemist. One of her X-ray crystallography images, shared without her permission, allowed James Watson and Francis Crick to deduce the double helix form of DNA. She was mentioned in their paper about the discovery, only in a footnote.

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[historygeek]

3/14 scientist
George Washington Carver did breakthrough work on crop rotation and soil exhaustion.

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[CaseyKane50]

3/14/21 – Scientist

Dr. Charles R. Drew –

“Dr. Charles Richard Drew broke barriers in a racially divided America to become one of the most important scientists of the 20th century. His pioneering research and systematic developments in the use and preservation of blood plasma during World War II not only saved thousands of lives, but innovated the nation’s blood banking process and standardized procedures for long-term blood preservation and storage techniques adapted by the American Red Cross.

Ironically, the Red Cross excluded African Americans from donating blood, making Drew himself ineligible to participate in the very program he established. That policy was later modified to accept donations from blacks, however the institution upheld racial segregation of blood, which throughout the war Drew openly criticized as “unscientific and insulting to African Americans.””

From the American Chemical Society.

[LisaE]

@drevil 209720 wrote:

3/14/21 – Scientist (Name or Likeness)

Mathematician and Astronomer Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806), a free African-American who helped to survey and plot the boundaries for the new Federal City in 1791. He was also able to predict a 1789 solar eclipse, among other notable recognitions.

http://americaslibrary.gov/jb/colonial/jb_colonial_banneker_1.html and http://whitehousehistory.org/benjamin-banneker

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[Serdar]

@drevil 209720 wrote:

3/14/21 – Scientist (Name or Likeness)

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Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 19, 1806) was a free African American almanac author and surveyor who had knowledge of mathematics and natural history.

Banneker had little or no formal education and was largely self-taught. He became known for assisting Major Andrew Ellicott in a survey that established the original borders of the District of Columbia, the federal capital district of the United States.

Banneker’s knowledge of astronomy helped him author a commercially successful series of almanacs. He corresponded with Thomas Jefferson on the topics of slavery and racial equality. Abolitionists and advocates of racial equality promoted and praised Banneker’s works.

Source: Wikipedia
My actual ride: https://www.strava.com/activities/4947028493

[consularrider]

@drevil 209720 wrote:

3/14/21 – Scientist (Name or Likeness)

I know it’s Pi day, but we already did pie. Besides, now that it’s ok to like scientists again, let’s join in Celebrate Scientists Day, which happens to be Albert Einstein’s birthday of March 14.

On your ride, find a scientist’s name or likeness out in the wild, and snap a pic of it. It’d also be cool if you could mention at least one scientific contribution they gave to the world.

Happy hunting!

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Sir Issac Newton, no apple trees to test gravity in the vicinity. I tried to find the π to go with it, but had to settle for peanut butter “pie.” Thank you George Washington Carver.

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[bikedavid]

@drevil 209720 wrote:

3/14/21 – Scientist (Name or Likeness)

Einstein, who is still practicing good masking!

[Nadine]

@DCAKen 209756 wrote:

3/14/21 – Scientist

This monument is dedicated to Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, a system of alternative medicine. Hahnemann was a 19th century German physician and chemist and is the first foreigner not associated with the American Revolution to be honored by sculpture in Washington.

The monument could also be see as a reflection of the evolution of the perception of science. Now, homeopathy is seen by many as a pseudoscience (statements beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method). But at the memorial’s unveiling in 1900, the ceremony was attended by President McKinley and many medical professionals.

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Wow cool find and really interesting information

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[Nadine]

@bigredboiler 209763 wrote:

3/14/21 Scientist

It’s hard to go too far around DMV without seeing signs honoring Dr. Fauci
Here is one with some St. Patty’s Day theme surrounding it.

His accomplishments are many; you might have heard some in the news this past year.
He is director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the chief medical advisor to the president.

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Oh what a great idea. Wish I’d thought of it.

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