A little friend for my big giraffe

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Stephen
Strava elephant by Stephen Lund on the streets of Victoria BC garmin gps art cycling cyclist bicycle elephant animals

For my Strava elephant, I managed to incorporate a feature of the landscape (Swan Lake) as part of the picture.

The big giraffe I Strava-doodled last weekend has created quite a stir. After I posted it on Reddit, my blog views jumped from 59 on Tuesday to nearly 12,000 on Wednesday. Today it showed up on Peleton Magazine’s Facebook page and, a few hours later, Strava plugged it in a Tweet and on their Facebook page as “one of the most creative pieces of Strava art we’ve seen…”

I’m hoping my follow-up Strava art effort isn’t too anticlimactic!

For today’s elephant sketch, I tried a new technique – namely, incorporating a feature of the landscape as an integral part of the picture (i.e., Swan Lake as the elephant’s eye).

I think it worked quite well.

See it on Strava

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5 Responses to A little friend for my big giraffe

  2. louvic says:
    February 27, 2015 at 5:10 am

    Wow! Hadn’t heard of this before! Thanks for re-blogging it!

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  3. tempocyclist.wordpress.com says:
    February 27, 2015 at 9:19 am

    Using the lake as the eye is clever! And congrats on the five-digit blog view day!!!!

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  4. Stephen says:
    February 27, 2015 at 9:20 am

    Thank you! Now I’m really feeling the pressure to perform…

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