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

[tomacsh]

3/17/21–Rainbow, Leprechaun or Four leaf clover

How about a masked gnome at the end of a rainbow flag? Obviously guarding lots of hidden treasures in this garden 🪙 [emoji3543][emoji272][emoji846]

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[Indiana]

3/17/21 – Rainbow, Leprechaun, or 4-Leaf Clover
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Bike at the end of the rainbow at the end (or the start) of the MBT

[Mtansill]

@drevil 209972 wrote:

3/17/21 – Rainbow, Leprechaun, or 4-Leaf Clover

That mostly inflated thing that the leprechaun bear is holding is a four-leaf clover.

It was much easier to find shamrocks festooning the neighborhood than four-leaf clovers!
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[LhasaCM]

3/17 – St. Patrick’s Day

This house near 15th on Florida NW had it all – clovers, leprechauns, rainbows, hawkeyes, dinosaurs, flamingos and more!

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[AlanA]

@historygeek 210024 wrote:

3/17/21 rainbow, 4 leaf clover, or leprechaun. I went for rainbow.

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I’m liking this for purely political reasons. I saw at least a dozen Trump flags/signs on my ride today. They don’t contain any rainbows or anything pleasant!

[Steve O]

3/17/2021 — rainbow, leprechaun, or four-leaf clover.

Not 4-leaf, but shamrock

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[Catedrew]

@drevil 209972 wrote:

3/17/21 – Rainbow, Leprechaun, or 4-Leaf Clover

I found a few rainbows, a few shamrocks (but most were 3-leafed, not 4-leafed), but I only found one leprechaun, so he got to be the star today.

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[Nadine]

3/17/21-rainbow, leprechaun or 4 leaf clover

I wasn’t sure what I was gonna do about today’s contest cuz online prep wasn’t really possible and tbh I have trouble seeing things when I’m riding by. I’ve had glaucoma since age 26 & I think one of my ways of compensating for some of my eyesight loss is to focus more. (Some of my photo search rides have been at 8-9 mph [emoji2358])

I wanted a real ride today though. Luckily Beth’s riding buddy for today canceled…. [emoji16][emoji2188][emoji2188][emoji1360]
I swear she SQUEALED when she saw this [emoji304] in a window…. I thought she’d had a mechanical. [emoji28]

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[Serdar]

@drevil 209972 wrote:

3/17/21 – Rainbow, Leprechaun, or 4-Leaf Clover

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Leprechaun and a 4-Leaf Clover
https://www.strava.com/activities/4965059229

[Boomer Cycles]

3/17/21 – Leprechaun

I was fearful that I wasn’t going to find a rainbow, leprechaun nor 4-leaf clover, and then all of a sudden, while stopped at a red light, there appeared a leprechaun on his way to the St Patty’s Party at the Beach [emoji905] Shack in the Little City of Falls Church!

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[AlanA]

If I take a picture of my dog bite I got on my ride today (It’s sort of turning greenish on four sides), will that count?

[Boomer Cycles]

Oops

[Kbikeva]

@AlanA 210042 wrote:

If I take a picture of my dog bite I got on my ride today (It’s sort of turning greenish on four sides), will that count?

Ouch — you know, in the last 3 days I’ve had numerous dogs lunge at my wheels when I’m on the road and they’re on the sidewalk with a human. Fortunately, they’ve all been leashed and grabbed back in time — but I have to wonder what the heck is going on? It’s the first time I’ve seen this type of behavior in years! Maybe spring fever? Or COVID weariness?

[AlanA]

@Kbikeva 210047 wrote:

Ouch — you know, in the last 3 days I’ve had numerous dogs lunge at my wheels when I’m on the road and they’re on the sidewalk with a human. Fortunately, they’ve all been leashed and grabbed back in time — but I have to wonder what the heck is going on? It’s the first time I’ve seen this type of behavior in years! Maybe spring fever? Or COVID weariness?

I don’t know what is with dogs and bikes! I’ve been munched on twice, and t-boned one at about 30 mph and ended up in the hospital. That dog will never chase a human again!

[Sophie CW]

3/17/21 – Rainbow, Leprechaun, or 4-Leaf Clover
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