Pointless Prize: 2022 Photo Scavenger Hunt

[rumipumi]

Rules:

This year we have two competitions: a main competition and participation prizes! You can compete in both simultaneously or just one.

• To compete for a participation prize you must (1) upload one or more photos of the item to your Strava ride for that day. (2) title your Strava ride with the hashtag #scavhunt. Please only hashtag ONE ride per day with #scavhunt. This hashtag will ensure you automatically show up and get ranked onto our scavhunt leaderboard (https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/scavhunt).
• To compete in the main competition (with one or more points awarded daily based on photo creativity, beauty and/or the capricious whims of Millie and Rumi) your entries must be posted HERE on the Forum in this thread (http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?18934-Pointless-Prize-2022-Photo-Scavenger-Hunt)

Detailed rules are below:

1. Obvs, you should be a participant in Freezing Saddles ’22
2. It has to be on a bike ride on the day it was requested
3. For the main competition, it has to be posted in the Forum 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, we won’t count ones that aren’t posted for the day it was requested. That’s part of the challenge
4. The reason we say “for the day it is requested” is because we will release a weekly list of scavenger hunt items ahead of time, with one item for each day — but don’t take and/or post the pic until that day comes.
5. The Scavenger Hunt calendar will be updated weekly here: (https://tinyurl.com/2022scavhunt) Each (Saturday-Friday) week of items will have a common theme. We will always update it in advance of the week ahead so you have time to make plans!
6. Your Forum post must be titled with the date and the found object/theme. Example: IF the item for January 1st was “borscht”, you would title your Forum post: 1/1/2022 borscht
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. You don’t need to be in the photo, but if you are in it, it either has to be a selfie or done with a self-timer
9. Only one pic/day should be posted in the Forum. Please don’t pad by adding more than one pic/day. (You can include as many photos as you want on your strava ride.)
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 “2022”, 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.
12. Unless specified otherwise, your bike does not have to be in the photo.
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.
14. Filters are OK, but no obvious/blatant photoshopping… not that we would know anything about such things

Scoring

Scoring will be different for FS22 and there are two different prizes you are competing for simultaneously:

• Main Competition: To compete in this prize you must post in this Forum ( http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?18934-Pointless-Prize-2022-Photo-Scavenger-Hunt ) complying with the rules above. Scoring will be arbitrary and capricious, and only one person per day is guaranteed to get a point each day. Hopefully this will cut down on some of the back-end work. How will you be the lucky point-winner for the day? Impress us with your creativity. Since we are publishing an entire week at a time, it should give you some time to come up with a creative idea. The rider with the most Main Competition points at the end of the competition is the… winner of the Main Competition.
• Participation Winners: There will also be participation awards for the top tier of daily participants. Tag one ride each day with #scavhunt, add your photo(s) of the item, and watch this leaderboard https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/scavhunt . This will be scored automatically by the leaderboard itself (one point per daily #scavhunt ride), is honor-based. Please do not tag more than one ride per day with the hashtag. Anyone in the top 10% of the leaderboard (based on number of rides, not mileage!!) at the end of Freezing Saddles will get a special prize!

Good Luck! Millie and Rumi

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[SusanG1693]

1/11/2022 Autumn Leaves (and winter snow!)

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[Kbikeva]

@Mtansill 213175 wrote:

Speaking over over-thinking things. If you’re the kind of person who likes to do that, I just want to point out that the calendar we created not only has calendar tabs showing the top picks each day, but a tab with the thoughts of the judges as to why they chose that photo. :rolleyes:

And let me say fret not if you don’t see your name here (yet)! Remember there are two contests built into this one pointless endeavor. Those daily participation entries, and this – as Rumi puts it – “beauty” contest.

http://www.tinyurl.com/2022scavhunt

I don’t see any tabs, but I’m resigned to not being artistic enough to be featured. I’m okay with that. Sort of.

[Kbikeva]

1/11/2022

It is difficult to find deciduous trees in the desert. But I persevered and found these desiccated autumn leaves along one road.

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[Kbikeva]

1/11/2022 Autumn Leaves

Difficult to find deciduous trees in the desert.

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[Sophie CW]

1/11/2022 – Autumn Leaves
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[Laurie E.]

Here what’s left of the autumn leaves.

[bikingjenn]

#scavhunt 1/10/22 autumn leaves (are dead leaves in winter autumn leaves? Mine still has a little red in it

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[cvcalhoun]

1/11/2022 Autumn leaves

It took me several tries to get the full effect of the moon through the leaves, if only because my fingers were so frozen that I couldn’t turn off the headlight on my helmet. I finally managed with much difficulty to get the whole helmet off.

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[Catedrew]

1/11/2022 – Autumn Leaves

Not very interesting – but still ‘autumn’ leaves. I see I am going to have to step up my creativity game!

OK, it came out sideways. I can’t figure out why this one did. Oh well.

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[Nadine]

A whole FIELD of autumn leaves! This is that Frisbee disc course on four mile run just south of Bluemont

Nadine
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[cvcalhoun]

@Catedrew 213274 wrote:

OK, it came out sideways. I can’t figure out why this one did. Oh well.

That happened sometimes on my old Android phone. (It doesn’t seem to happen with the new one.) I got a free program called Pixlr which allowed me to rotate photos. You could give it a try if the sideways photos bother you.

[Catedrew]

@cvcalhoun 213278 wrote:

That happened sometimes on my old Android phone. (It doesn’t seem to happen with the new one.) I got a free program called Pixlr which allowed me to rotate photos. You could give it a try if the sideways photos bother you.

It used to happen sometimes on my iPhone, but I uploaded this one from my laptop. Go figure!

[tomacsh]

1/12/2022 Cicada Husk

Pro tip: Ask a kid [emoji28]
We snapped this as we started our morning commute!

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[Serdar]

@tomacsh 213285 wrote:

1/12/2022 Cicada Husk
Pro tip: Ask a kid [emoji28]
We snapped this as we started our morning commute!

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Thanks! Now guess who will be watching/studying the tree barks today!

[CaseyKane50]

1/12/2022 Cicada Husk

Found this husk of a cicada along Timber Branch
Alexandria, Virginia

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