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

[Sophie CW]

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

@Boomer2U 210041 wrote:

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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Now THAT is a hat for a true believer!

[drevil]

3/18/21 – Blue US Postal Service Collection Box (or if not in the U.S., the equivalent) with your bike leaning against it

On March 18, 1766, the Stamp Act – a tax levied on the British colonies in America which required that many printed materials be produced on stamped paper produced in London – was repealed. It was enacted in 1765 to pay for British military troops stationed in the American colonies that were there to protect from a French invasion, but the colonists thought the tax was unfair (plus they weren’t really worried about a French invasion).

I know that the Stamp Act wasn’t about stamps in the way that we think of them now, but since the word “stamp” made me immediately think of the Postal Service, let’s go out and find one of those blue USPS collection boxes.

Fun fact: letter boxes started out as green in 1860, then red in the 1880s, silvery white from 1897-1905, then back to green. In 1955, they were Red, White, and Blue, and finally in 1970, they came to look like they do now: solid deep blue color with reflective decals featuring the Postal Service’s eagle seal.

Happy hunting!

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[bikesnick]

@drevil 210056 wrote:

3/18/21 – Blue US Postal Service Collection Box (or if not in the U.S., the equivalent) with your bike leaning against it

3 blue boxes
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[rumipumi]

3/18 mailbox

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[sszibler]

3/18/21 – Blue US Postal Service Collection Box with your bike leaning against it.

This deserved better than Rotten Tomato’s score. I remember liking it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+postman&client=safari&channel=iphone_bm&sxsrf=ALeKk03_g2OAI3g3-D5nT3JKPXbWNU4Muw%3A1616053067748&source=hp&ei=SwNTYPHOKoWo5NoPk5WzkAI&gs_ssp=eJzj4tTP1TfILkvKMTNg9OIuyUhVKMgvLslNzAMAW6cH3Q&oq=the+postman&gs_lcp=ChFtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1ocBABGAEyBQguEJMCMgUILhCxAzICCAAyAgguMgIIADICCC4yAggAMgIILjoHCCMQ6gIQJzoECCMQJzoLCC4QsQMQxwEQowI6CAgAELEDEIMBOgoILhDHARCvARAnOggILhCxAxCDAToFCAAQsQM6CAguELEDEJMCOggILhDHARCvAToLCC4QsQMQxwEQrwFQ7hBY5j9g41xoAnAAeACAAZQBiAG_B5IBBDEwLjGYAQCgAQGwAQ8&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-hp

[Shawnbeast]

@drevil 210056 wrote:

3/18/21 – Blue US Postal Service Collection Box (or if not in the U.S., the equivalent) with your bike leaning against it

Look at my bike leaning against this blue USPS collection box!

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[cvcalhoun]

3/18/21 – Blue US Postal Service Collection Box with your bike leaning against it

There is one of these a block away from me — close enough so that on occasion I have walked there at night barefoot and in my nightgown. (Did I mention that I have no dignity?) But it seemed unsporting to use that one, so I looked for others on my ride. I was surprised to see how few there were — less than one per mile.

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[consularrider]

@drevil 210056 wrote:

3/18/21 – Blue US Postal Service Collection Box (or if not in the U.S., the equivalent) with your bike leaning against it

On March 18, 1766, the Stamp Act – a tax levied on the British colonies in America which required that many printed materials be produced on stamped paper produced in London – was repealed. It was enacted in 1765 to pay for British military troops stationed in the American colonies that were there to protect from a French invasion, but the colonists thought the tax was unfair (plus they weren’t really worried about a French invasion).

I know that the Stamp Act wasn’t about stamps in the way that we think of them now, but since the word “stamp” made me immediately think of the Postal Service, let’s go out and find one of those blue USPS collection boxes.

Fun fact: letter boxes started out as green in 1860, then red in the 1880s, silvery white from 1897-1905, then back to green. In 1955, they were Red, White, and Blue, and finally in 1970, they came to look like they do now: solid deep blue color with reflective decals featuring the Postal Service’s eagle seal.

Happy hunting!

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I was beginning to despair of finding one without having to go by a post office until I got to my coffee stop, and lo and behold!

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[LisaE]

@drevil 210056 wrote:

3/18/21 – Blue US Postal Service Collection Box (or if not in the U.S., the equivalent) with your bike leaning against it

I went directly to the local post office because stand-alone boxes away from a post office have been absent in our area for years.

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[Kbikeva]

3/18/21 – Blue US Postal Service Collection Box (or if not in the U.S., the equivalent) with your bike leaning against it

I thought it fitting that near end of Freezing Saddles, which challenges us to ride every day through every kind of weather, when sometimes doing so meant that only we and the postal workers were out, drevil chose this object to find. And predictably, as I started my ride today, it began to rain again. I had carefully scanned the radar but … at least it was warmer rain than the last time. There is a box oh so close to my house, but I wanted a bit more mileage so rode past about half a dozen of them before getting to the local post office for this photo.

Perhaps the unofficial motto of the postal workers should be the unofficial motto of the Freezing Saddles every-day-riders: Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these riders from the determined completion of their appointed rounds.

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[DCAKen]

3/18/21 – Blue US Postal Service Collection Box

There’s a post office just two blocks away from where I live, and while I got a photo of the pair of boxes, I wanted to find one in the “wild”. That meant keeping off the usual bike trails and riding through the neighborhoods.

I found two in Ledroit Park (where I took this one).

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[historygeek]

3/18/21 post box

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[komorebi]

@drevil 210056 wrote:

3/18/21 – Blue US Postal Service Collection Box (or if not in the U.S., the equivalent) with your bike leaning against it

3/18/2021 — USPS collection box with bike and bonus cherry blossoms:

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[Nadine]

3/18/21 – post office box

I took this a mile from my house at Westover. Then I rode out to meet Anne. Managed to miss most of the rain!

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