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

[Nadine]

1/15/21 bagel

And now that I’ve finally figured out how to post pictures here, here are my bagel pix from a few days ago…. I posted them on fb then, and cvcalhoun tried to help me figure out how to do it, but still I didn’t, till today (tapatalk this time, much simpler.)

This was Chesapeake Bagels at Lee Harrison in Arlington.

My husband, who ate the bagel, said it was the right balance between soft & chewy – but not that flavorful. But then he said that couldabin but it was a plain sesame bagel (as he’d requested.)

Sorry about the forum lag time. [emoji16]

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[HokieBeth]

1/19 Beetle

Spotted this classic 1967 Beetle in a carport in Alexandria. Saw two more classics on the way home and then a 2nd generation in Old Town. I had a friend in college who had a baby blue classic convertible Beetle. Had quite a few memorable road trips in that car.

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[drevil]

1/20/21 – The name of any U.S. president starting from FDR or after, but it can’t be on a yard sign or a car.

In 1937, January 20 was the first time a president was sworn in on that date (it was for Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s second term). Prior to this, all (regular) inaugurations were on March 4 after George Washington.

On your ride, take a pic of the name of any U.S. president starting from Roosevelt or after, but it can’t be on a yard sign and it can’t be on a car (sorry Gerald Ford fans )

Happy hunting!

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Pic credit: Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post

PS – If you’re not in this country and you want to play along, take a pic of the name of any president from that country (just let us know what country it is and the name we’re supposed to be looking for in the pic).

[camiller]

1/19/2021 Beetle

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[cvcalhoun]

1/20/21 – The name of any U.S. president starting from FDR or after, but it can’t be on a yard sign or a car.

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[CBGanimal]

@historygeek 205795 wrote:

1/10/21 beetle

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I knew someone would remember this one!!!

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[josh]

@drevil 205837 wrote:

1/20/21 – The name of any U.S. president starting from FDR or after, but it can’t be on a yard sign or a car.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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[historygeek]

@CBGanimal 205845 wrote:

I knew someone would remember this one!!!

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It’s within blocks of my house. I didn’t even have to think about it– just told Rumi that that was where we were going.

[Mtansill]

@drevil 205837 wrote:

1/20/21 – The name of any U.S. president starting from FDR or after, but it can’t be on a yard sign or a car.

Greenbelt, MD was founded in part because of President FDR. Roosevelt Center in the heart of old Greenbelt is named after him.
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[komorebi]

@drevil 205837 wrote:

1/20/21 – The name of any U.S. president starting from FDR or after, but it can’t be on a yard sign or a car.

1/20/21 — Name of a U.S. President. Here’s my bike at President Gerald R. Ford Park in Alexandria. This park is just down the hill from the house where Ford was living in August 1974 when Nixon resigned and Ford became president. There’s a plaque on the back of the park sign, with a prescient quote from Ford’s speech upon being sworn in as president: “I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself.”

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[CBGanimal]

@drevil 205837 wrote:

1/20/21 – The name of any U.S. president starting from FDR or after, but it can’t be on a yard sign or a car.

PS – If you’re not in this country and you want to play along, take a pic of the name of any president from that country (just let us know what country it is and the name we’re supposed to be looking for in the pic).

Adolfo Suarez was Spain’s first democratically elected prime minister since the second Spanish Republic,and a key figure in the country’s transition to democracy.

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[Nadine]

@CBGanimal 205852 wrote:

Adolfo Suarez was Spain’s first democratically elected prime minister since the second Spanish Republic,and a key figure in the country’s transition to democracy.

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That seems nicely in the spirit of the contest, impressive given you’re way over there. Also looks like a #parkfinder.

I’m impressed at how in the game you are this year given the distance. It’s like always except more interesting for those of us following you.

[Boomer Cycles]

@drevil 205837 wrote:

1/20/21 – The name of any U.S. president starting from FDR or after, but it can’t be on a yard sign or a car.

Off of Kirby Rd in McLean VA

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[Kbikeva]

1/20/21 – The name of any president since FDR but no yard sign or car.

This was actually harder than it might seem in Reston since VDOT controls the roads so renaming a street to honor any one is an uphill battle and not one people will take on lightly.

So I had to improvise. Not photoshop, but cropped.

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I wonder if I get credit for two presidents since there were two with this name?

[DCAKen]

1/20/21 – The name of any U.S. president starting from FDR or after

Reflecting upon the military-industrial complex in the shadow of the Capitol after the inauguration

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[Author]

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