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

[cvcalhoun]

@drevil 203165 wrote:

1. Unless specified otherwise, at least a part of your bike should be in the photo you submit. Shouldn’t be too hard since you’re out for a ride anyways, right? (Rule added on 1/3/21)
2. 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)

Actually, this does make it hard for those of us who customarily ride after dark (because after work for me is definitely after dark). When I took a photo of the sign with the lighted date and time on it for the first day, I had to direct my focus very carefully so that the lighted letters didn’t just turn into one big blur of light. At that point, if I’d tried to put my bicycle into the shot, it would have disappeared into the darkness.

It’s also an issue if we are trying to take a photo of a sign that is above a building. If we put our camera low enough to capture part of the bike, or if we move back far enough to capture both bike and sign, it may be impossible to make the sign legible.

You can obviously have what rules you want. But you should be aware that getting a bicycle (or even a portion of one) into every shot while still making the found item clear and discernable may be very challenging for some of us, even though we are riding to where we take the shot.

[Boomer Cycles]

Ooops (sorry for double posting … and Tapatalk’s lack of a “delete” button:-/)
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[drevil]

@cvcalhoun 203828 wrote:

Actually, this does make it hard for those of us who customarily ride after dark (because after work for me is definitely after dark). When I took a photo of the sign with the lighted date and time on it for the first day, I had to direct my focus very carefully so that the lighted letters didn’t just turn into one big blur of light. At that point, if I’d tried to put my bicycle into the shot, it would have disappeared into the darkness.

It’s also an issue if we are trying to take a photo of a sign that is above a building. If we put our camera low enough to capture part of the bike, or if we move back far enough to capture both bike and sign, it may be impossible to make the sign legible.

You can obviously have what rules you want. But you should be aware that getting a bicycle (or even a portion of one) into every shot while still making the found item clear and discernable may be very challenging for some of us, even though we are riding to where we take the shot.

Y’know, I agree with you here. After a long discussion with the panel (i.e., myself ), I’m removing that rule. So unless I explicitly ask for the bike to be in the pic, it isn’t necessary.

drevil wrote:

Rules:
…
12. Unless specified otherwise, your bike does not have to be in the photo. (Rule amended on 1/4/21)
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[komorebi]

@drevil 203817 wrote:

1/4/21 – In honor of National Spaghetti Day, take a pic of an Italian restaurant, preferably one you like and/or serves spaghetti. Caveat is that it can’t have “zz” or “Garden” in the name or the sign. Happy hunting!

1/4/2021 — Italian restaurant. Taken at Rosemarino D’Italia in Alexandria. I haven’t tried their spaghetti, but I can vouch for their eggplant parm.

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[josh]

@drevil 203817 wrote:

1/4/21 – In honor of National Spaghetti Day, take a pic of an Italian restaurant, preferably one you like and/or serves spaghetti. Caveat is that it can’t have “zz” or “Garden” in the name or the sign. Happy hunting!

I forgot to include the bike, but that rule has since been rescinded, so I’m safe.
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Villa di Roma: I believe the sign in the window qualifies, although in retrospect the partially cropped-out rooftop sign may have been a better choice. Also, I haven’t actually been to any Italian restaurants up here (yet), but I figure that something in the Italian Market is most likely decent (at least).

[Steve O]

@Laurie E. 203827 wrote:

Took the picture before you added the new rule that bikes had to be in the picture. I saw people post yesterday without a bike. Check the rules and it didn’t say that the bike needed to be in, so I didn’t put my bike in.

Elf, 1-3-2021, Clinton

Although, it appears you missed the deadline
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[Steve O]

@drevil 203835 wrote:

Y’know, I agree with you here. After a long discussion with the panel (i.e., myself ), I’m removing that rule. So unless I explicitly ask for the bike to be in the pic, it isn’t necessary.

I think a better option is to require the bike unless the photographer can offer a valid reason for not including it. “I forgot” (looking at you, Josh) is not a valid reason. That way one has to show that they at least gave consideration to the requirement.

[drevil]

@Steve O 203851 wrote:

I think a better option is to require the bike unless the photographer can offer a valid reason for not including it. “I forgot” (looking at you, Josh) is not a valid reason. That way one has to show that they at least gave consideration to the requirement.

Sigh. Let’s leave it as unrequired unless I say otherwise. I’ll trust folks are on bike rides. I like having bikes in the pics, but I can see some not being able to include their bike in the pic. I don’t want to keep amending the rules and turning people off to playing.

Steve O, love you man, but this is my game so I’ll set the rules here. You can be the judge in your own games and start arguments there.

[Boomer Cycles]

@drevil 203817 wrote:

1/4/21 – In honor of National Spaghetti Day, take a pic of an Italian restaurant, preferably one you like and/or serves spaghetti. Caveat is that it can’t have “zz” or “Garden” in the name or the sign. Happy hunting!

The Italian Store in the Westover hood of Arlington VA

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[DCAKen]

@drevil 203817 wrote:

1/4/21 – In honor of National Spaghetti Day, take a pic of an Italian restaurant, preferably one you like and/or serves spaghetti. Caveat is that it can’t have “zz” or “Garden” in the name or the sign. Happy hunting!

Also, starting on 1/4 going forward, I’m going to be a hardarse, so please read and follow the rules in the original post. Thanks again for playing

For when you want quantity over quality

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[historygeek]

@drevil 203817 wrote:

1/4/21 – In honor of National Spaghetti Day, take a pic of an Italian restaurant, preferably one you like and/or serves spaghetti. Caveat is that it can’t have “zz” or “Garden” in the name or the sign. Happy hunting!

Also, starting on 1/4 going forward, I’m going to be a hardarse, so please read and follow the rules in the original post. Thanks again for playing

My favorite Italian restaurant is in in Maiori, Italy. Right now all it would take is money, time, and ending the pandemic to convince me to hop on a plane and go eat there right now. Instead, I give you Three Brothers, where my husband and I spent a lot of time with friends back in grad school. Man, now
I’m all sad about not being able to travel. And the buccatini shortage. I think I need to find a local source for good spaghetti with clams. (also, feel free not to count this. I’m pretty sure “pizza” is in very small type on that sign, and I didn’t notice it at the time) [ATTACH=CONFIG]22063[/ATTACH]

[LeftyLaura]

1/4/2021 – National Spaghetti Day, No “zz” or “Garden”
I’m from NJ which is a tri-state in the northeast for North Italia!

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[consularrider]

@drevil 203817 wrote:

1/4/21 – In honor of National Spaghetti Day, take a pic of an Italian restaurant, preferably one you like and/or serves spaghetti. Caveat is that it can’t have “zz” or “Garden” in the name or the sign. Happy hunting!

Also, starting on 1/4 going forward, I’m going to be a hardarse, so please read and follow the rules in the original post. Thanks again for playing

Mimmo Cucina Italiana, York Ave, Yorkville. The first neighborhood restaurant we tried after moving into our apartment in NYC. The “zz” isn’t on the sign, it’s on the awning.

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[CBGanimal]

@drevil 203817 wrote:

1/4/21 – In honor of National Spaghetti Day, take a pic of an Italian restaurant, preferably one you like and/or serves spaghetti. Caveat is that it can’t have “zz” or “Garden” in the name or the sign. Happy hunting!

Madrid seems to really like pizza in their Italian restaurants but I found one without!! They had an outside bar so I got a beer too…I should have gotten a coffee cause I froze on my way home.

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[Kbikeva]

1/4/21 – Italian Restaurant, no “zz” or “Garden” in the name or the sign

Lucia’s Italian Ristorante

Neighborhood place in Reston (technically Herndon but not the part of Herndon those of you who use the W&OD think of as Herndon). They’re really supportive of local youth programs and have a party room for when we can have parties. And yes, they serve spaghetti. Wait … can an Italian restaurant call itself that if it does NOT serve spaghetti?

Can you imagine if @drevil had said, “no double letters” instead of just no “zz”? THAT would have been challenging!

Sorry, I can’t get the photo to flip right side up.

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