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

[accordioneur]

@drevil 204396 wrote:

1/8/21 – Bell (but not on a bike)

This bell is outside the firehouse at the corner of Wilson Blvd & George Mason Dr. – right beside the Bluemont Junction Trail.

Everyone loves a good lizard story, right? Every year on July 4th there’s a ceremony wherein they ring this bell. Back about ten years ago, when we had just gotten our pet lizard Cooper, we decided to attend the ceremony and bring him with us. Our previous lizards had been bearded dragons, which are very mellow and tend to sit still. We weren’t used to uromastyx, which are much squirmier and also like to hide in any cave-like area they can find. On the drive over, Cooper squirmed out of my wife’s hands and crawled deep under the passenger seat, where the was no way we could reach him, and there was nothing we could do to entice or prod him to come out. I actually wound up unbolting the seat and picking it up so that we could extract the darn lizard.

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[Kbikeva]

@drevil 204396 wrote:

1/8/21 – Bell (but not on a bike) OR an Elvis

January 8 is Elvis Presley’s birthday. What were at the bottom of his jumpsuits? Bells! Post a pic of a bell that isn’t on a bike OR an Elvis you spot on your ride (just 1 pic please). Happy hunting!

Josh – the only acceptable answer from you (and only you) is the Liberty Bell since you left us to go to Philly

These bells are in the tower at St. John Neumann Catholic Church right next to my house. True story: When we first bought this house I was outside talking to a neighbor one day when the bells began ringing. I exclaimed, “Oh, they’re wonderful!” The neighbor scrunched up her face and said, “You may think so but there was a lawsuit because people thought they were too loud and too much!” I find that so sad after living in Europe where church bells are ubiquitous. I wonder how those people would feel with a Muslim call to prayer 5 times a day?
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[DCAKen]

@drevil 204396 wrote:

1/8/21 – Bell (but not on a bike) OR an Elvis

The place to go for a little ring-a-ding-ding

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[SusanG1693]

January 8 is Elvis Presley’s birthday. What were at the bottom of his jumpsuits? Bells! Post a pic of a bell that isn’t on a bike OR an Elvis you spot on your ride

Lovely bell with rope pull at Olivet Episcopal Church in Franconia. Chapel dates to 1892.

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[bikesnick]

@drevil 204396 wrote:

1/8/21 – Bell (but not on a bike) OR an Elvis

1/8/2021
Saxophone Bell

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I also saw “Elvis” today. See the post on the PublicArtFinder thread.

[Brownws]

1/8/21 – Bell (but not on a bike)

In Marvin Gaye Park

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[CaseyKane50]

1/8/2021 Bell

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Like Komorebi I had trouble finding a bell to photograph. I had the Taco Bell sign as a backup, then I discovered the fire alarm bell.

[LeslyJ]

@drevil 204396 wrote:

1/8/21 – Bell (but not on a bike) OR an Elvis

January 8 is Elvis Presley’s birthday. What were at the bottom of his jumpsuits? Bells! Post a pic of a bell that isn’t on a bike OR an Elvis you spot on your ride (just 1 pic please). Happy hunting!

1/8/21 – Bell – I passed about 10 churches on my short 1 mile BikeShare ride, and no bells. Just as I was about to return the bike, I discovered this gem on the side of a building.

[CaseyKane50]

@Serdar 204492 wrote:

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Looks like a shiny bell to me. Look closer!

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I went by that boat this morning and missed the shiny bell.

[tomacsh]

1/8/2021–Bell

One of the lovely corners in my hometown of Takoma Park, named after the founder of the city’s Recreation Department, Belle Ziegler [emoji3590] Belle passed away from cancer in 2008; the park was dedicated in 2010. Thank you Belle!

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[NoVaNoobGA]

@drevil 204396 wrote:

1/8/21 – Bell (but not on a bike) OR an Elvis

January 8 is Elvis Presley’s birthday. What were at the bottom of his jumpsuits? Bells! Post a pic of a bell that isn’t on a bike OR an Elvis you spot on your ride (just 1 pic please). Happy hunting!

1-8-2021 Bell outside of Fat Tuesday in University Mall in Fairfax
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(can anybody teach me how to edit these pics to make them upright?)

[cvcalhoun]

@NoVaNoobGA 204518 wrote:

(can anybody teach me how to edit these pics to make them upright?)

Pretty much any photo editing program has a function called “rotate” that allows you to move the photo so that it’s upright.

[LisaE]

1/8/21 – Sleigh bells!
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@drevil 204396 wrote:

1/8/21 – Bell (but not on a bike) OR an Elvis

[josh]

@cvcalhoun 204520 wrote:

Pretty much any photo editing program has a function called “rotate” that allows you to move the photo so that it’s upright.

It’s a little more than that, it looks like vbulletin does (or at least did) funky stuff with their image uploads. Well, they claim it’s a feature not a bug 😎

For me, when I had a photo I’d taken in portrait (on my Android phone) orientation, I’m pretty sure I had to rotate it three or four times (I know, it doesn’t make sense) 90 degrees and re-upload until the orientation (as displayed on the forums) was correct. It certainly wasn’t intuitive.

[rumipumi]

1/8/21 (Lissa) Bell 🔔

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