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

[AlanA]

1/29/21 – Mercedes Benz

Olney is certainly not a Mercedes type of town. It was too cold and windy for me to give a rats ass about what color or trying to get my bike into the picture.

I also blocked out the tags in respect of these Olney residents.

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[Nadine]

1/29 – mercedes Benz

There were boatloads of benzes where I rode today (cabin John /Potomac) but they were ALL black or gray…. so [emoji1744]

This was the first one we saw, waaaay inside sometimes huge yard. I wouldn’t even have been able to make out the insignia from the road, but Anne did. [emoji16][emoji1360]

And fwiw I didn’t see any green ones either…. I vote Casey gets da points.

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[Kbikeva]

@CaseyKane50 206569 wrote:

1/29/21 – Mercedes Benz (more points for select colors)

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Red and blue were easy to find, yellow was indeed elusive, but then the flashy green car caught my eye. I have sacrificed extra points by not posting the red and blue cars, in the hope that the judge will find the flashy green, not only eye catching, but worthy of extra points.

I think YOU should get the points for variety — but I think the dealership should get negative points for using up all those handicap spaces for car storage!

[rumipumi]

1/29 yellow benz

Magic Benz in Hyattsville!!! Old school Yellow !!

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[Indiana]

1/29/21 – Mercedes Benz (more points for select colors)

Got passed by a red one but couldn’t catch it. Thankfully happened upon a blue at “prosperity tire center.”

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[smb9600]

@rumipumi 206594 wrote:

1/29 yellow benz

Magic Benz in Hyattsville!!! Old school Yellow !!

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Wow!!! That’s a unicorn!

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[smb9600]

1/29/21 – Mercedes

We hit the Benz jackpot in the south side of Old Town. Lots of red, black, silver, white, even a blue. But alas, not a yellow in sight.

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[historygeek]

1/29/21 Mercedes Benz. Rumi insists this is yellow…

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[cvcalhoun]

1/29/21 – Yellow Mercedes Benz
Ah, Bethesda! Where there is not a single Volkswagen Beetle to be found, but there are two yellow Mercedes, one in front of the other.

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[Laurie E.]

@drevil 206550 wrote:

1/29/21 – Mercedes Benz (more points for select colors)

On January 29, 1886, Karl Benz is awarded the patent for the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.

On your ride, capture a Mercedes Benz vehicle. Sounds easy, right? Well, if you want a few more points, find a less popular color as listed below:

• 3 points for a yellow vehicle
• 2 points for a red or blue vehicle
• 1 point for all other colors

Since we’re basing extra points on color, make sure it’s easy to discern (i.e.., make sure it’s not too dark).

You can upgrade your answer throughout the day, but if you modify your post after 1/29, it’ll only be worth 1 point. Also, you’ll only get point(s) for a single vehicle even if there is a gaggle of them in the photo.

Happy hunting!

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“A Benz in the Wild”, 1/29/21, This is the first time that I was actually worried about taken a picture. I pasted up a few because I didn’t want people coming out of their houses thinking that I was doing something to their Benz in their driveways, so I search until I found one parked on the street.

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[Sophie CW]

1/29/21 – Mercedes Benz – no extra points for me
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[Mtansill]

@Rod Smith 206586 wrote:

1/29 Mercedes Benz
20210129_135314 by Rod Smith, on Flickr

Rod, did you wave when you captured this image across the street from my house?

[Mtansill]

1/29/2021 – Mercedes Benz

Yes, historygeek, this is absolutely Mercedes Benz’s retro version of yellow. Not the first time I’ve seen one this color in my life.

Fun fact: In “The Millionaire Next Door” it mentioned that millionaires tended to buy – for no reason that’s apparent – cars that were a better price per pound than other cars (used, and hold on to them). At the top of that list? Mercedes Benz

My in-laws were not millionaires, but they had a car around this vintage, so it makes me think of them.

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[bigredboiler]

1/29/21 – Mercedes Benz

This game would have been so much easier if I still lived in Stuttgart, but alas….
Went hunting early in the morning, and only found the yellow one painted on the side of the truck at the Arlington dealer (see Boomer’s pic). Plenty of blue, red, and every other color though.
Went hunting at lunch for an elusive yellow one in the wild; thru the streets of Clarendon/Rosslyn, G’town, and many NW DC streets to no avail.
Gave up on finding a yellow in the wild, so settled for a pic from the zoo….EuroMotors Bethesda

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[awitt]

I was biking with Nadine and looking out for Benzes because she didn’t know what they looked like. We were in Potomac so there should have been some around but all we were seeing in the way of fancy cars were BMWs and a Tesla. It was very cold, as you all know because you were out too, and I was tying to warm up when I saw one in a driveway on the left. It was black and boring but better to get a photo now and we can keep looking for something more colorful. Cold hands be damned! Nadine was on my left and I didn’t want to hit her so I started yelling that I was going to turn left in front of her. We got a close to the fence next to the driveway as we could and got our photos. Potomac is so boring, we never did find anything more colorful.

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