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

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[consularrider]

I saw the moon sign that I missed yesterday.

A two bell ride (plus another in a steeple I didn’t take a picture of).

[ATTACH=CONFIG]22363[/ATTACH] 810 Beaver Dam Rd near The Pines, PA. I had a nice chat with the owner when I asked permission to take the photo. She mentioned that her son and daughter (a few farms further south) just got new bikes and love to ride.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]22364[/ATTACH] Bell from the old Gettysburg High School at Unity Park

[reji]

@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

Home to the King!
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[historygeek]

1/8/21 Bell (but not on a bike) or Elvis.
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[Catedrew]

@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

1/8/21 – Bell or Elvis

Well, I remembered an Elvis gingerbread decoration that a neighbor had a Christmas, so I went back to see if it was still out and alas, it was not! Sigh. So I was therefore relegated to find an actual bell. I went to THREE churches, and NO BELLS! I should have cycled over to the Catholic church, but I had no time. I noticed bells on the St. Thomas Moore church from the window while at my PT appointment. But I DID manage to find some Christmas bells that hadn’t been put away with, so I went with those, and those red bells are my entry. I did, however, go back and find my Elvis gingerbread man from an old photo just so you could see it and enjoy it. So, the bells are are my entry, not the Elvis gingerbread, which is just for fun.

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[scarabini]

Bell but not on a bike.
biked to a church but no bell in their bell tower. fortunately, i spotted this little car with a bell outside a house on my way home!

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[Indiana]

@drevil 204396 wrote:

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

Bell tower at national shrine. Bells starting chiming at 6:00 right when I was taking this photo telling me I was late for dinner, no time for a better photo!
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[consularrider]

@josh 204526 wrote:

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.

For me if I save the photo on my hard drive with the correct orientation, it will post here (and on strava) correctly. If I try to rotate on my phone or point-and-shoot camera, this site reverts to the original image anyway like today’s farm house dinner bell.

[jen_stoly]

1/8/21 Bells! Hope you can see this little wind chime. It’s a bell, right?

[HokieBeth]

1/8/21 Bell

Christmas bells in Del Ray

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[Boomer Cycles]

1-9-21: Bell

Columbia Baptist Church Bell Tower in the Little City of Falls Church

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[camiller]

1/8/2021
Bell or Elvis

Bell Tower on St Mary of Sorrows Historic Church in Fairfax, Station. This church was dedicated in 1858. The original bell was replaced by a bell that was cast in Baltimore in the mid 1880’s.

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[drevil]

Thanks for the last few days’ submissions everyone. I’m loving the entries and the tidbits of info that come with them. I’m sorry I haven’t been able to tally yet, I’ve been a little swamped at work and life, and just trying to squeeze my rides when I can.

I’ll try to tally things up before this coming weekend is over

[mootsfy]

1/8/21 – Bell

[drevil]

1/9/21 – Balloon. Happy hunting!

On January 9, 1793: “Blanchard made the first balloon flight in North America, on January 9, 1793, when he ascended from the Washington Prison Yard in Philadelphia and landed in Gloucester county, New Jersey. This flight, observed by President George Washington, spurred interest in ballooning in the United States.”

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Pierre-Francois-Blanchard

[bigredboiler]

@accordioneur 204498 wrote:

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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rode right by this today (and many other days)…..and missed it!!! doh!

[Author]

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