Photo Tag game?

[Biggles]

OK, good that you did the sleuthing to make sure I wasn't using stuff off my hard drive.
For the one other player and potentially hundreds of lurkers out there, go find an outdoor toilet and get your bike into the frame of a photo of it. NOT a public toilet block- there's plenty of them. A stand-alone "dunny", as we call them in Oz. Probably won't need forensic proof, because it's not something we photograph often.

[DownUnder]

I have one question, does the dunny need to be a permanent structure or will a portable facility suffice ??

[Lapchik]

I'm glad my kids watch Bluey, so I know what all this Southern Hemisphere slang means.

[Lapchik]

Something like this? I also rode up to the state park to see if I could see the snow geese that people have been talking about. I got to see them land in the creek. They just didn't land anywhere in camera shot.

[Biggles]

I'll accept a porta-loo. I'm sure a ride into the country would turn up a traditional dunny, so if you want to be a purist, go bush.

[DownUnder]

If Port-A-Loos are acceptable, then I guess that means that Lapchik is now " it ".

If so, next tag, please.

[Lapchik]

Since gracious, lenient winter scoring is in effect, lets see what's next.....

Let's see your bike with moving natural water. Most of the water up here is still solid right now. Picture could be a river/creek, lake/ocean with waves, waterfall, anything like that. Just no man-made water features like a hose or fountain.
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It's really rare to find a wood "outhouse" as they are called here. This is an old photo from the TSDAT in 2015. It's at the Dowling Baptist Church. [SFW, I have compression shorts on]

   

   

[DownUnder]

(03-07-2023 10:40 AM)Lapchik Wrote:  Since gracious, lenient winter scoring is in effect, lets see what's next.....

Let's see your bike with moving natural water. Most of the water up here is still solid right now. Picture could be a river/creek, lake/ocean with waves, waterfall, anything like that. Just no man-made water features like a hose or fountain.

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Narrabeen Lake, a small coastal lake popular with canoeists, paddle-boarders and sail-boarders, which drains into the much larger Pacific Ocean. Blue skies, bright sunshine, warm breeze . . . an no snow.

Are these acceptable ??


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[Lapchik]

Yep! I took a shortcut across across frozen Lake Geneva in Alexandria, MN today. Wishing it looked like that here.

[DownUnder]

I am not sure if my photos above met the tag requirement of "moving natural water", so I zipped down to a near-by beach and took this early morning photo. Unfortunately, the on-shore breeze has turned the small swell into slop and the surf-board riders have gone elsewhere.



Next Tag.
The 1st Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees, among other things, the freedom of religion, while Section 116 of the Australian Constitution has a similar effect.

Take a photo of your bike at a non-Christian house of worship, including a sign denoting which faith is involved.

[Biggles]

This is an Islamic temple. The sign says Majid Taqwah and you can see the characteristic dome at the rear.

[DownUnder]

Non-Christian houses of worship are perhaps more common than many people may think. For example, Google Maps shows 17 temples, 16 synagogues and 18 mosques in the Minneapolis area.



Your photo is accepted Biggles, so you are "it". Next tag please . . . .

[Biggles]

Your bike in front of a windmill. Can be the water pump type or the landscape-scarring electric grid type.

[DownUnder]

I am just back from a 1,500 km ride along which I saw 4 water-pump wind mills.

All of the w/mills were located in paddocks some distance from the road. Two of the w/mills had nowhere safe to park at the side of the road, one was on a corner and I did not see it before it was disappearing in my mirrors, and the fourth was "just perfect" until I realized that the B-Double up my arse was probably not going to like it if I put my blinker on and slowed down.

My next "attempt" will probably not be before May. Hopefully, someone outside of Oz will pick up the challenge . . . .

[Lapchik]

I rode 71 miles on Monday, but it's still below freezing here. Didn't see any windmills other than a couple base skeletons of old farm yard water pump windmills, but no rotor or tail.

[Biggles]

(03-22-2023 03:02 AM)DownUnder Wrote:  I am just back from a 1,500 km ride along which I saw 4 water-pump wind mills.

All of the w/mills were located in paddocks some distance from the road. Two of the w/mills had nowhere safe to park at the side of the road, one was on a corner and I did not see it before it was disappearing in my mirrors, and the fourth was "just perfect" until I realized that the B-Double up my arse was probably not going to like it if I put my blinker on and slowed down.

My next "attempt" will probably not be before May. Hopefully, someone outside of Oz will pick up the challenge . . . .

I can sympathise with all that. Of course, distant windmills with the bike in the foreground are fine.
There's one thing worse than having a huge truck up your backside when you want to stop for a minor matter- and that is when you over-took a huge truck and a few minutes later see just what you want and have to dive off the road as they come thundering up behind you.

[Lapchik]

Found 6 bases/towers, 1 tiny decorative windmill, and 2 towers with only the directional vane. These are the only fully functional windmills I could find.

[Lapchik]

There is a windmill in this picture too, but it was not functional. Had most of the parts it needed though.

[Biggles]

"Found 6 bases/towers, 1 tiny decorative windmill, and 2 towers with only the directional vane. These are the only fully functional windmills I could find."

I'll pay that collection. The wind driven turbines on the right of the first photo are the modern variety of windmill. The concept is a wind-driven device that powers something- a water pump, a grain grinder or an electricity generator.

Over to you to nominate a new tag!

[Lapchik]

I used to live near a windmill museum of sorts. https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/30260

Next tag: your bike and a little free library, or if in Australia, a street library.

https://littlefreelibrary.org/map/

https://streetlibrary.org.au/