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

[bikedavid]

1/11/21 – Plane

Lots of planes to see at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, if it was open!

Sent from my moto g stylus using Tapatalk

[CaseyKane50]

1/11/2021 – Plane

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A scaled-down version of Air Force One at National Harbor.

[Indiana]

@drevil 204836 wrote:

1/11/21 – Plane

A plane tree, aka a sycamore.
I asked my nine year old if she knew where I could find one of these, and she told me the exact closest block (thanks, MBear!).

Per Casey Trees:
“the native American sycamore (also known as the American plane tree, occidental plane tree or buttonwood) is a prominent tree in the forests and waterways of the eastern United States. The sycamore stands out with its interesting bark, which separates into scaly plates that create a multicolored, mottled texture. The bark peels off, uncovering new white, brown, gray and green layers underneath.”

Read more here: https://caseytrees.org/2011/02/tree-month-american-sycamore/
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Full tree in my Strava.

[drevil]

Hi everyone, someone pinged me to see if I could help her to post pictures to this thread via an Android/Chrome phone. Unfortunately, I am an iPhone user, so I’m not sure how to advise her.

On the iPhone, I find it easiest to use the Tapatalk app (I have the paid version). Are Android phone geeks using the app also, or do you have another easier/preferred method?

[Indiana]

@drevil 204900 wrote:

Hi everyone, someone pinged me to see if I could help her to post pictures to this thread via an Android/Chrome phone. Unfortunately, I am an iPhone user, so I’m not sure how to advise her.

On the iPhone, I find it easiest to use the Tapatalk app (I have the paid version). Are Android phone geeks using the app also, or do you have another easier/preferred method?

I’m no guru, but I post from chrome on my Android using the “go advanced” button. Click the little picture of the tree and then find your photo in “files.” After you select your photo you need to click “upload.” You can preview your post to make sure it came through.

[josh]

@drevil 204900 wrote:

Hi everyone, someone pinged me to see if I could help her to post pictures to this thread via an Android/Chrome phone. Unfortunately, I am an iPhone user, so I’m not sure how to advise her.

On the iPhone, I find it easiest to use the Tapatalk app (I have the paid version). Are Android phone geeks using the app also, or do you have another easier/preferred method?

I’ve never tried using Tapatalk — on my Android phone, I’ve just used mobile Chrome to navigate the forum and post things. AFAIK, there’s no mobile version of the website, so you just have a very unwieldy UI, and attaching images is basically the same as on a desktop, it just requires lots of zooming in to press small buttons. I will say that I generally use a browser on my laptop to write things/post images if possible, it’s just nicer with a larger screen and real keyboard (but what isn’t?). It might be worth a try?

The process looks something like this (very similar to the desktop UX):
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Press the “Insert Image” button

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Press “Choose file” (then get sent to file browser or photos app or whatever)

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Select the image, then get sent back to the modal window you saw before, press “Upload file(s)”

Once the upload is complete, you’ll see some markup added, and so the body of your post will look something like this:

Quote:

This is my pretend post.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]123456[/ATTACH] <-- this won't actually have that forward slash, I just couldn't figure out how to escape whatever triggers the tag parsing in a better way
More text can go here

That’ll insert the image at the location indicated by that tag in your post. Don’t delete it!

Add whatever else to your post and then submit it.

[LeslyJ]

@drevil 204836 wrote:

1/11/21 – Plane

“On Jan. 11, 1935, the aviator Amelia Earhart began a trip to Oakland, Calif., from Honolulu that she would complete the next day, becoming the first person to fly to the United States mainland from Hawaii.”

1/11/21 – Plane – my first thought was head to the Air and Space Museum, but that’s so easy, when it’s only a mile away…..so I went in the opposite direction and found these at WWII Memorial.

[bigredboiler]

@josh 204902 wrote:

I’ve never tried using Tapatalk — on my Android phone, I’ve just used mobile Chrome to navigate the forum and post things. AFAIK, there’s no mobile version of the website, so you just have a very unwieldy UI, and attaching images is basically the same as on a desktop, it just requires lots of zooming in to press small buttons. I will say that I generally use a browser on my laptop to write things/post images if possible, it’s just nicer with a larger screen and real keyboard (but what isn’t?). It might be worth a try?

The process looks something like this (very similar to the desktop UX):
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Press the “Insert Image” button

[ATTACH=CONFIG]22520[/ATTACH]
Press “Choose file” (then get sent to file browser or photos app or whatever)

[ATTACH=CONFIG]22521[/ATTACH]
Select the image, then get sent back to the modal window you saw before, press “Upload file(s)”

Add whatever else to your post and then submit it.

I’ve only posted from my browser in a Windows PC, but there is an Android App for Tapatalk and based on signatures in this forum, it looks like many use it.

[bigredboiler]

1/11/21 – Airplane!

Found a variety of “airplane” themed this to photograph today, but this one nearly instantly popped to mind, so it’s what I’m going with for sharing here.
From a playground around Vienna.

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Fun stuff and I’m enjoying looking at everyone’s pics….great creativity & keen eyes to find stuff!

[CBGanimal]

1/11/21 – Plane

Crossing the bridge and seeing the plane in the middle of the roundabout used to signal you were close to the US Air Force Base called Torrejon. My dad closed down the American side of the base about 30 years ago…now its a Spanish air base where my brother-in-law works.

Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

[bikesnick]

@drevil 204836 wrote:

1/11/21 – Plane

1/11/2021
Plane

“Pennies from Heaven” public art sculpture, with 14,000 pennies, in Falls Church, VA. The Washington Post wrote an article
about this in 2018.

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[Brownws]

@drevil 204900 wrote:

Hi everyone, someone pinged me to see if I could help her to post pictures to this thread via an Android/Chrome phone. Unfortunately, I am an iPhone user, so I’m not sure how to advise her.

On the iPhone, I find it easiest to use the Tapatalk app (I have the paid version). Are Android phone geeks using the app also, or do you have another easier/preferred method?

The free Tapatalk for andriod works but its not aways clear what thread your in.

Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

[HokieBeth]

1/11 Planes

Taking off from National

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Rod Smith]

1/11 Plane
IMG_0511 by Rod Smith, on Flickr

ERCO Ercoupe, made in Riverdale Park, Maryland
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/ercoupe-was-airplane-anyone-can-fly-until-it-wasnt-180956769/

[accordioneur]

@drevil 204836 wrote:

1/11/21 – Plane

Some of you may remember from physics class that an inclined plane is one of the six simple machines (the others are Lever, Wheel and Axle, Pulley, Wedge, and Screw).

A bridge ramp is an example of an inclined plane. I remain optimistic that someday this one will carry W&OD riders over Rt. 29.

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