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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[historygeek]

1/10/21 beetle

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[Mtansill]

@drevil 205719 wrote:

1/19/21 – Beetle

My bright and sunny submission:
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[bigredboiler]

1/19/21 – Beetle!

Luckily this one hasn’t moved recently (but they did remove the Christmas lights
I was really hoping to see the Xmas lights on early morning in the dark. Oh well.

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[komorebi]

@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.

1/19/2021 — Beetle. My original plan was to post a photo of ladybugs depicted in a mural, because ladybugs are a type of beetle. But as I was getting close to finishing up my ride, I realized that I was a little bit short on my decasleaze. So I decided to do an extra lap around the neighborhood to get the extra distance I needed. I turned onto a street I don’t normally turn onto, and there it was — a bright red Beetle.

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[rumipumi]

1/19/21 Beetle

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[LisaE]

1/19/21 – Beetle

Spied this modern slug bug on the way home.

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[bikesnick]

@drevil 205719 wrote:

1/19/21 – Beetle

Wow, these used to be easy to find. This one is Falls Church, VA.

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[Serdar]

@drevil 205719 wrote:

1/19/21 – Beetle

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I did not find that old rusty blue Beetle I saw somewhere and rode to … a dealership.
https://www.strava.com/activities/4648784350

[AlanA]

1/19/21 – Beetle

I had almost given up, but decided to ride through the shopping center before heading home. I found this one at mile 60 out of 60.1! Whew!!

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[Rod Smith]

1/19/21 – Beetle
20210119_165632 by Rod Smith, on Flickr

[Catedrew]

@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!

Well, you said a beetle, but you didn’t say what KIND of beetle, and a ladybug is technically a beetle, so here you go!

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[cvcalhoun]

1/19/21 – Beetle
Bethesda is apparently not a Beetle kind of town. No Beetles along my ride. No Beetles at two different multistory garages I checked out. Not even any Beetles at the Volkswagen dealership. Best I could come up with was from the Amazon bookstore–which still didn’t have any of the car type of Beetles.

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[Boomer Cycles]

1/19/21 – Beetle

Stohlman VW – Tyson’s Corner VA did not have any Bugs on the lot, but I found one on a monitor in the show room …

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[reji]

1/19 – Beetle

While I was tempted to find an image of the Beatles somewhere, I went with the traditional VW bug aka beetle. In our house, we play the Punch Buggy game but only the old style VW bugs count. Funny story… I explained the Punch Buggy game to my kids when they were 3 and 5 years old. Even though they were excited by the possible free pass of punching each other, an uneventful week passed without incident when, out of the blue, my oldest punched me. He had forgotten to call the color of the bug passing by so I was not particularly receptive to the punch and asked (ok, sternly yelled) what that was for. With tears in his eyes he said it was the Punch Buggy game. Feeling a little bad, I did what any good parent would do … I punched him back, smiled and reminded him that he needed to call the color of the bug. 😎

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[Nadine]

1/19/21 beetle

Old school VW bug in a carport near Fort Hunt…. And here it is again with a bit of bike in it, and Hokiebeth, whose bike it is, taking her picture which I’m sure she’ll be posting later this pm…. [emoji16]

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