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

[bigredboiler]

1/18/21 – BIPOC Public Art

Another from Arlington artist Winnie Owens-Hart, “Memory Bricks”
Winnie Owens-Hart is a native of Halls Hill/High View Park (HHHVP), the neighborhood this park commemorates. Owens-Hart was commissioned to develop artwork reflective of the history and values of this predominantly African-American community.

Here is a URL with more details if interested

Really needed to see the whole thing and a close-up of the bricks for it to make sense, so I combined two frames into one photo (to meet the only post 1 picture req’mt).
Each brick in the park was made by a community member to honor memory of someone.

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[historygeek]

1/18/21 #publicartfinder featuring (or by) BIPOC.
I posted a different pic of this mural in #publicartfinder earlier this month.

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[DCAKen]

1/19/21 – Beetle

When you see one, what do you cry out? “Slug bug” or “Punch buggy”?

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[josh]

@drevil 205719 wrote:

1/19/21 – Beetle

Most boring Beetle possible
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Really would’ve preferred a brighter color

[bikedavid]

@drevil 205719 wrote:

1/19/21 – Beetle

A young beetle!

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[tomacsh]

1/19/21–VW Beetle

An oldie and a goodie (as close as I could get to it)! “Slug bug, no slugs back” is what I say [emoji6]

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[accordioneur]

@drevil 205719 wrote:

1/19/21 – Beetle

Yes, I’m a cyclist, but I’m not a car hater as many cyclists are. In fact, I like cars – enough to notice interesting or unusual ones when I see them. That’s how I already knew where to find a Bug (two, actually – there’s another one in front of the yellow one) right in my neighborhood.

I don’t know if AWitt is participating in the photo scavenger hunt, but she could get this one easily!

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[lordofthemark]

@accordioneur 205765 wrote:

Yes, I’m a cyclist, but I’m not a car hater as many cyclists are. In fact, I like cars – enough to notice interesting or unusual ones when I see them. That’s how I already knew where to find a Bug (two, actually – there’s another one in front of the yellow one) right in my neighborhood.

I don’t know if AWitt is participating in the photo scavenger hunt, but she could get this one easily!

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I’m a Clintonian on cars – they should be safe, legal, and rare. :p

[LeslyJ]

@drevil 205719 wrote:

1/19/21 – Beetle

On January 19, 1978, the last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany left their factory in Emden. Find a beetle on your bike ride and post the pic of it here.

I vote Punch Buggy!

[smb9600]

@drevil 205719 wrote:

1/19/21 – Beetle

Learned that Alexandria VW has loaner bikes while swinging by for this picture. How cool is that??? (If I wasn’t coordinating the Infrastructure Pointless Prize, I would have snapped a pic & posted that too!)

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[LeftyLaura]

@drevil 205719 wrote:

1/19/21 – Beetle

On January 19, 1978, the last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany left their factory in Emden. Find a beetle on your bike ride and post the pic of it here.

Happy hunting!

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1/19/21 – Beetle

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[CBGanimal]

1/19/21 – Beetle

Rode to the Corte Ingles and got my picture of a beetle…thought about buying it for my niece’s baby!

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[Kbikeva]

1/19/21 Beetle

Well, to continue the theme (and because in cold weather actual insect beetles are hard to find), I found this one. At the very end of my ride as I circled through a neighborhood street to get a ’round number’ on mileage, there was a beautiful bright red one with a black convertible top. Oh well, this one’s paint is more interesting.

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[CaseyKane50]

1/19/2021 – Beetle

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Found this Beetle in Wilkes Street in Alexandria.

[mootsfy]

1/19/21 – Beetle

This one is old school cool and has a rack!

[Author]

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