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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[bikedavid]

@drevil 207249 wrote:

2/7/21 – Superb Owl (or a few alternatives)

There are occasionally owl sightings in Rock Creek. I think they would be difficult to find today so also went to Rooster and Owl to maximize the sighting!

[LhasaCM]

2/7 Superb Owl

Here is a Duolingo ad featuring a smart owl on the side of a tour bus on the mall.

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[historygeek]

2/7 superb owl

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[Nadine]

@LhasaCM 207272 wrote:

2/7 Superb Owl

Here is a Duolingo ad featuring a smart owl on the side of a tour bus on the mall.

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Ok that’s impressive

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[Indiana]

2/7/21 – Superb Owl (or a few alternatives)

Am I watching the owl or is the owl watching me? Bike selfie in the mirror.
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Thanks, kidMBear for remembering which apartment building sported this fine specimen.

[Kbikeva]

2/7/21 – Superb Owl (or a few alternatives)

Although Reston has many resident owls, including a pair that often hangs out in my neighborhood, pursuing them didn’t seem like a good way to get a bike ride in today – it’s more of a hiking type of thing. Instead I biked to a local bird feeder store (closed on Sunday) and peered in the window. Success!

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[rumipumi]

2/7 Superb Owl Sunday

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[Mtansill]

2/7/2021: Superb Owl Sunday!!
And I only just got the pun. Lol.

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[LisaE]

2/7/21 – Superb Owl (or a few alternatives)

An artistic rendering of a superb owl found roosting in a little free library. My fallback was going to be Fowler St.

https://strava.app.link/arzp2aGYGdb

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[accordioneur]

2/7 Superb Owl Sunday

I have to admit I didn’t ride today – I have a little trouble getting motivated to ride on damp days when I have no reason to leave the house. But I think I deserve at least 1/4 point for my prescience in having photographed a superb owl on yesterday’s ride. This is one of several works in Arlington by local chainsaw artist Andrew Mallon.

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[Serdar]

@drevil 207249 wrote:

2/7/21 – Superb Owl (or a few alternatives)

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Here is one of the owls I spotted in Cameron Station today
https://www.strava.com/activities/4752857313

[karenbikes2]

@drevil 207249 wrote:

2/7/21 – Superb Owl (or a few alternatives)

Apparently tomorrow is the day of the Superb Owl. Finding an owl in the wild – whether it be real, fake, or art – will net you 2 points. This hunt doesn’t include the word, we’ll actually need the bird likeness. Capture it on your phone and post here in the forum.

I realize that owls may be elusive, so I have the following alternatives, but you have to include your bike in the picture if you are going this route. Also, these will only get you 1 point total for the day:

• The store America’s Best Contacts and Glasses
• A store that has “candy” on its sign or in its name. The word “candy” has to be in the pic
• If all else fails, the word “owl”. It can be inside of another word, e.g., “knowledgeablenesses”

Happy hunting!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WCHPTN7Xns

2/7/21
Superb Owl

Owls Cove Rd in Reston – best I could come up with today. I rode down all the little side streets off of several of the roads in south Reston that border on the Nature Center, hoping to see one of the Barred Owls that hang out there. No such luck today, but it took me into some local neighborhoods I’ve never visited before. And the roads weren’t as gritty as the main roads which had been very thoroughly treated with rock salt the size of marbles.

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[Nadine]

2/7/21 – superb owl

Here’s a lovely tree carved owl atop Sena’s totem in the playground at Oak Park, across from WL high school! I’d forgotten about it but found it in my pictures.

I’d found it a few weeks ago on a tree carving ride I’d found on ridewithgps.com… so I talked Anne into riding there with me today, & took a today pic with my bike & the totem placard so you all can see the story behind it.

Except the sign isn’t legible here…. It is in my Strava pic though, which I think is the same pic. (Is it possible pix show up blurrier here than on Strava?)

[Shawnbeast]

2/7/21, superb owl
I visited Orange Hunt Elementary school this afternoon, the home of the owls!

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[mrhappy_onabike]

2/7/21, superb owl

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