Middle Tennessee pixel hunt

It's open season in Middle Tennessee. No license required. Your weapon of choice will be some sort of digital camera...be it phone, helmet, SLR, hidden, pocket...doesn't matter. You can take down the elusive pixel with just about any camera. Just get 'em in the frame and shoot. Well, then share.

This is basically the same thing as all the tag-o-ramas out there. Just with a different name. I figgered tag-o-rama was getting well-worn.

A simple explanation of the game: There should just about always be a current tag. If you wanna play, go find the tag and take a picture of it and your bike. Then post it back to this forum and claim your tag. Then post up a new tag...someone else will go get it. Rinse and repeat.



I guess we need some rules (subject to change). Please read the rules if you intend to post to this thread:

updated 4/17/10

1: Your photo must be taken after the new tag is established. (can't just use old photos you have on hand). This goes for a new tag placement as well. No file photos may be used. A photo taken on the way to the current tag may be used to place the new tag as long as it was taken no more than 24 hours prior to the new tag.

1a: Try to reproduce the photo as well as possible from memory. If something's blocking your way, just do your best...the idea is to prove you were there; not to critique composition. You may only submit one photo for a tag. You may only capture a tag with one photo.

2: Your photo must be taken from an area accessible to the public. Let's try and keep it legal. In the interest of as much participation as possible, the area should be accessible to all motorcycles. This means the tag location should be accessible via public road. Pavement is optional. Private property is okay as long as it is intended for public use and is open to the public (not gated/signed). A tag may not be taken nor placed inside a 'pay area'. If you have to pay to get in, you're out of bounds.

3: The winner of a tag makes the next tag; preferably on the same outing to keep the ball rolling. Winner has 24 hours after tagging to post a new tag.

3a: In the case that no new tag is established within 24 hours, the last tag still stands. For example, have a look at the first photo posted to the thread...the one with the big wine barrel. If it's tagged and no new tag is posted within 24 hours, then that first photo with the big wine barrel is still the current tag. Someone will need to go get it again. (The barrel photo is only an example...the game assumes that the last tag was never made). The player who invoked this rule (the one who tagged and failed to post a new one) is no longer eligible for this particular tag.

3b: Once a new tag is posted, it is the new tag. In other words, no changing the new tag once it's posted...time remaining in the 24 hour period or not. Why? Because someone may have already gone out for it.

4: Gotta have boundaries. Please consult the map above. If you're within the yellow counties, you're in bounds. Again, gated and/or pay areas are out of bounds even if they fall within the allowed counties.

5: Your bike (or the bike you're riding) must appear in the photo. You can crop and color-correct your photos, but you may not digitally (nor by conventional means) insert a motorcycle or a background.

6: First eligible post to this thread wins the tag.

7: Please don't post the whereabouts of or hints to a current tag until someone has tagged it. If a tag just starts taking too long, the original poster may start giving hints. ONLY the original poster can post hints.

8: You can't tag your own tag.

9: No whining.

I guess that's enough for now. Adjustments can be made if necessary...just speak up...still tweaking the rules to everyone's liking.

If you're new at this and don't quite get it, why don't ya just kick back and observe for a bit. It'll come to ya.

And okay, we aren't actually hunting pixels. We're really looking to arrange them in a way so that others will believe that we've been where we say we have. But it had a ring to it.

Happy Hunting!

Google Map of tags past

Tags:

Updated occasionally

Pilot: Arrington Vineyards - www
1: Madonna's Bra - www - www
2: Phoenix flea market
3: The Groove - www
4: Old Hickory Dam - www
5: Nashville Superspeedway - www
6: J. Percy Priest Dam - www - *
7: Dickerson Road Buffalo
8: Trail off Nachez Trace Parkway @ Hy 50
9: George Dickel Distillery - www
10: Campbell's Station Country Store and foodery - *
11. F-4 Phantom @ Sumner County Airport
12. NOAA weather office - Old Hickory
13. PJ's Antique Mall
14. Charlie Daniels Park
15. Center Hill Dam
16. The Hermitage
17. The Polk House - *
18. Pink Elephant enjoying a martini
19. Covered Bridge
20. Old Springfield Highway train bridge
21. Cold Springs School - Portland
22. Hy 128 @ Clifton, TN - *
23. Meriweather Lewis - www
24. Parthenon in Centennial Park
25. Port Royal State Park
26. Stage Coach Hill
27. Mousetail Landing State Park
28. Cane Creek Market
29. Fort Negley
30. Drake's Park
31. El Rodeo Market
32. Whose house? CDQ3's house
33. Tom Patten @ Cavendars (Hickman Co.) - *
34. Pulltight Hill - Williamson Co. *
35. The Farm Store *
36. 4 Way Market - Centerville
37. Grinder's Switch
38. Fort Redmond/Bell Witch
39. Fish Dam
40. Circle Y Ranch - Rutherford Co.
41. Cedar Pond
42. Jarman's Sign
43. Lock A - Cheatham Dam
44. Mel Tillis' ass
45. TN British Motorcycles
46. Charlie Biggs' Chicken & Sauce
47. Daisy Duke up against the wall - Williamsport, TN
48. Cave Spring Church *
49. Behind the End Bar
50. Thompson Overlook
51. Unknown...need info
52. Short Mountain Bible Camp
53. Unknown...need info
54. Erin sign
55. Some Fresh Produce sign somewhere
56. Sinkhole on Hy 50 - *
57. Odd Fellows Hall Church of Christ
58: The Amish Galeries
59: Nameless
60: S&G Custom Cycles
61: Huff's Grocery
62: First Baptist Church of Spring Hill
63: Henry Horton State Park
64: Tennessee Renaissance Festival
65. Puckett Field, Eagleville
66. Marcy Jo's Mealhouse
67: BBQ Caboose, Lynchburg
68: Some little lighthouse
69: A sign that reads Neptune
70: Nature Center
71: Some sign off in the woods
72: Loveless Cafe'
73: Just another covered bridge
74: Just another gate
75: Bells Branch Church of Christ
76: Tennessee State Prison
77: Cragfront Mansion
78: Some old store
79: Some phallic monument thingy
80: Devil's Backbone state natural area
81: Laurel Hill Lake
82: TN/AL line on the Natchez Trace
83: Drive thru store, Summertown
84: Shelby Bottoms train bridge
85: Ward's Seminary
86: Dyer Observatory
87: Stick in a box
88: Standing Stone SP
89: Some cooling tower
90. Steps to Narnia?
91. DelMonaco Winery and Vineyards
92. Willow Grove Marina
93. Mystery Falls
94. Hemlock Semiconductor sign
95. Hemlock Semiconductor building
96. Ralph Spangler Stadium
97. TN/KY state line store
98. Cumberland River Bicentennial Trail
99. Vagina Lips over troubled water
100. The coolest house evar!
101. Old Town - Franklin
102. Any Subway
103. Any boat named Orion
104. Old chimneys?
105. Campbellsville Community Library
106. Fall Mills - Old Salem
107. Ellington Airport
108. Cordell Hull Lock & Dam
109. Big ass tree house
110. Some ferry
111. Puckett's - Leiper's Fork
112. Some Confederate cemetery historical marker.
113. Warner Park looking at Belle Meade Blvd.
114. Radnor Lake
115. LOVE
116. Cheatham Dam
117. Strattons
118. On the Cumberland - Nashville
119. Marker @ Ft. Donelson
120. Magnolia
121. Spencer Courthouse
122. Great View
123. Cradle of the TN walking horse
124. Where Vanderbilt attempts to play football
125. Somewhere not too far from Joelton
126. Highland Trail - Beaman Park
127. Laurel Hill Dam
128. Tennessee Farm Bureau
129. Possum Trot
130. Ten No
131. Some caboose
132. Mary Helen's Grocery
133. Iroquois Steeplechase
134. Hillbilly Porn
135. James K. Polk historical marker
136. Middle Tennessee Veterans Memorial Cemetery
137. Outlaw Field
138. Red River Canoe Rental sign
139. Trevecca Nazarene entrance
140. Cumberland Caverns
141. UT Space Institute Propulsion Research Facility
142. Qute Assa Button - ass farm
143. old MTSU observatory
144. Williamson County Agricultural Expo Center
145. Natchez Trace arch bridge
146. Nissan HQ
147. Fernvale
148. IHF's new place
149. Old Grist Mill near the Harpeth
150. Shady Grove Baptist Church
151. Dunbar Cave Natural Area
152. Pleasant View Elementary School
153. Mound Bottom
154. Saint Michaels
155. Ferry near Erin
156. Furnace off 149 at Palmyra Rd
157. Beachaven Winery www
158. Interstate 24 Exchange
159. Trinity Music City Church Auditorium
160. Some cemetery
161. Bridge at Old Stone Fort State Park
162. Manchester Recreation Department
163. Thompson's Station caboose
164. Bench at Warner Park
165. Owl's Hill Nature Sanctuary
166. Nate's Cabin near Isaac's Fort
167. Duck River Raceway?
168. F86 Sabre - Centennial Park
169. Black ass rock donkey
170. Mothballed 727 near MQY
171. Hangars at MQY
172. DA 40 on a stick - Murfreesboro Municipal Airport



* Bruces:

Herod's flu - (Percy Priest Dam)

(double Bruce)
rob feature - Campbell's Station Country Store and feedery
mbob - Campbell's Station Country Store and feedery

mrbreeze - Polk House

TroyJ650 - Hy 128 @ Clifton, TN

TheyCallMeBruce - Spencer Courthouse

(double Bruce)
TroyJ650 & TN Steve - Tom Patten @ Cavendars (Hickman Co.)

mbob - Pulltight Hill

richarddacat - The Farm Store

istbenz - Cave Spring Church

rob feature - Hy 50 sinkhole

ihatefalling - Huff's Grocery

Drowsy Dave - A sign that reads Neptune

richarddacat - Cragfront Mansion

Mr. Breeze - Beaman Park

Mr. Breeze - old MTSU observatory

Drowsy Dave - Nissan HQ

(double bruce)

Ride 2 Little - Mound Bottom
ihatefalling - Mound Bottom

Something nice & easy to get us started

(Dangit!) That's just up the road, it's raining and I'm about to leave town. I'm sure someone will beat me to this unless I can dig up an old pic.

See rule # 1

So then, according to rule # 6 I cannot take one with my truck in front of it on my way out of town (in the rain).
I'll lay-low until I can get something that matches this criteria.
Looking forward to this thread. Thanks for setting it up.

Well, bein' a motorcycle board and all

You're welcome.

And FWIW, if anyone doesn't like the parameters I posted, speak your peace. I was just drawing on memory from similar threads. If you don't make rules, folks will do stuff like go get the tags in their trucks

Cool ! !

Thanks for setting this up Super Rob. This is gunna be fun. I'll be a slow starter b/c I'm still about 2 weeks or so from getting the DRZ tagged....and I just sold my street bike. Looking forward the hunt. Let the games begin....

I guess i cant play Warren County is the far south.

rob might can add it? i was also wanting to add hickman,,(nice dirt roads there) this could turn out to be a fun thing,,, heheheheh

Wanna just say from the State line north to south and between the Tennessee River and Cumberland Plateau? I mean, technically, that's more or less Middle Tennessee. Sound better?

woohoooo! yup yup,, thats cool ! sounds good to me man !

+1

Ok i guess i will play now i just need a boat to get there. The creeks are up and it is still raining what fun.

it would be fun if it was warm out there. i love to ride in the rain even a nice spring thunder storm...but i cant stand the cold !!! (getting old i guess)

Us Cat Herders of the Shenandoah Valley use a 'cache' token left at the tag spot. Makes knowing if you are bruced real easy and saves the mad rush to find a computer to post up. Military style coins, any flat metalwork that can be hidden or in our case, Happy Meal Toys, lend validity when the Sheriff or Shotgun toting resident on his ATV stops to ask what you are doing..."Just lift up that rock sir and see if there is something under there" - Ah the look on their faces Also allows for gifts such as beers, baked goods or homemade jams to be left as a gift. Just how we do in the valley - have fun with your fledgling game!

Oh, also helps to have a Google Map keeper of previous tagged spots. PM me if you want any instructions or tag mapping ideas. Our Map

Sounds fun, but much more of a pain in the ass...to me anyway. I'd rather just snap a pic and move on. If someone posts it before me, so be it. Not that big of a deal.

Same here. It ain't gonna hurt my feelings if somebody wants to take that on, but I figured with the area we're covering, finding some of these could be hard enough .

The first one ain't that hard though. I tagged it again today, but obviously haven't learned that taking and retaining pictures with my phone's camera requires a number of steps. And my bike cam went tits up today.

Was a great day for a ride though...hope some of ya got to enjoy it.

same here man !... and i already know were your photo was taken. i had to baby set my little girl today so i could not get out. but soon as i get a good weekend im on it !... bike cam? you need to get that shit fixed would love to see some photos, i carry my canon with me, high $ cam but thats what i bought it for. only problem is its big and bulky, but takes really great pics and i love good quality pics.(your always welcome to post photos on my flickr site) just join the group, its free.

This is great. Rob, thanks for stepping up and starting this. Just to clarify though...

Are we using all of the counties in Mid Tenn?

Not sure where the boundary line for the Cumberland Plateau officially is.

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