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

[Catedrew]

@drevil 209914 wrote:

3/16/21 – Panda or Danger Panda

I almost feel like I’m in the minority, because I don’t HAVE a two-wheeled bicycle, only my trike, so I CAN’T do the danger panda even if i wanted to! Heavy sigh. So, I will forgo the two points, even though I’m really competitive and really wanted to get the two points. An image of a panda will have to do. This is on the Little Free Library in Lyon Park, Arlington.

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[bigredboiler]

3/16/21 – Danger Panda

No other panda sightings on my ride today.
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[Indiana]

3/16/21 – Panda or Danger Panda

Thinning the herd in the last few days of the competition with the danger panda attempts? :p

A few weeks ago my daughter and I rode by this panda-painted rain barrel. I said to her, half jokingly, “remember where that is in case we ever need to take a photo of a panda!”

So we had to go back today.

On the way home I started to experiment with hands free riding, but it made my daughter scream “Don’t do it!!! Stay in one piece.” That led into a discussion about how sometimes it seems like everyone else is doing something risky, but you don’t have to follow along. So as tempted as I was to try it out on my solo ride later on, I kept my promise to her and will stick to the safety panda.
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[LhasaCM]

3/16 – panda

Panda outside Ben’s on H NE…

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[bigredboiler]

3/16/21 – Danger Panda

No other panda sightings on my ride today.
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[AlanA]

@LeftyLaura 209950 wrote:

This panda is part of DC art project under Tony Williams’ mayoral time. Fun fact, we share the same birthdate month, day, and YEAR! What a phenomenal coincidence! Enjoy my China Doll!

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“Take up your china doll,
It’s only fractured and just a little nervous from the fall”
Which is what I’d be if I tried the danger panda!

[AlanA]

@Catedrew 209952 wrote:

I almost feel like I’m in the minority, because I don’t HAVE a two-wheeled bicycle, only my trike, so I CAN’T do the danger panda even if i wanted to! Heavy sigh. So, I will forgo the two points, even though I’m really competitive and really wanted to get the two points. An image of a panda will have to do. This is on the Little Free Library in Lyon Park, Arlington.

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Your panda is pretty stinking cute! I think you deserve two points!!

[cvcalhoun]

3/16/3021 Panda

Given that I have a serious issue with balance (I have never in my life managed to bike no handed, much less take a selfie while doing it), and am not a fan of breaking my neck, I went for Safety Panda.

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[Serdar]

@drevil 209914 wrote:

3/16/21 – Panda or Danger Panda

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Panda Express through the spokes of my bike’s front wheel
https://www.strava.com/activities/4959489713

[Nadine]

@AlanA 209957 wrote:

“Take up your china doll,
It’s only fractured and just a little nervous from the fall”
Which is what I’d be if I tried the danger panda!

I love that song

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[Nadine]

3/16/21 panda or danger panda

Even when I practiced yoga for years I could never get the damned balance poses. My superpower is flexibility (both physical and the last minute adjustment kind -except it’s just my hips, physically.)

Also even my friends know I bike a li’l wussy. [emoji1]So here’s a safety panda

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[AlanA]

@Nadine 209962 wrote:

I love that song

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I figured maybe you or Rod would get that!

[Boomer Cycles]

3/16/21 – #dangerpanda AKA #LookMaNoHands

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[Sophie CW]

3/16/21 – Panda decals at a local restaurant
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[Kbikeva]

@AlanA 209958 wrote:

Your panda is pretty stinking cute! I think you deserve two points!!

Cute isn’t the criteria — balance on 2 wheels (or 1 for the unicycle danger panda) is… although I’m pretty sure I could crash a tricycle given enough opportunity!

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