Taking Back the Night, Nuit Blanche, People's Climate March & a Tesla car

Another exhausting weekend jam packed with photo-ops.  Too tired to write a full blog, but here are links to the photos I uploaded to Flickr:

• People's Climate March 2014

• Nuit Blanche

• Take Back the Night

A cool thing I will add is this:

I never thought I'd ever see one of these.  It's a Tesla electric car and apparently there are 30 of them in Alberta.  There were four of them on Stephen Avenue today, along with a Porsche, a couple Nissans, and a truck; all electric displayed by the Electric Vehicle Association of Alberta.

The Tesla motor is about the size of a big watermelon and sits behind the rear wheels. The battery was described as a "big skateboard" and is the base of the body. The body is made of aluminum. 

Depending on the power of the engine, a Tesla can cost up to $100,000. At one time that is how much a new digital DSLR camera cost.  I can wait for Tesla.

Stephen Avenue

The weirdest thing.  

On September 4th I posted this photo of Stephen Avenue on Flickr.  Last night I noticed the stats.  Even though this photo has been on Flickr only 10 days it has 10,305 views and 121 favs, making it the most popular photo on my Flickr page.  It was shared with only two Calgary Flickr groups.  

I stayed up way too late trying to figure out who the 10,305 viewers were, thinking maybe it was attached to somebody's blog. Never did figure it out. 

Blows me away.

I posted it to National Geographic's YourShot website and within two seconds I received 2 favs. Holy crow!  Just checked my inbox -- now there are 12 favorites, within 6 seconds.  What the heck?

Not bad for a photo taken through a dirty Plus-15 window with a little point and shoot (Canon PowerShot G15).  Although, the Nik photo editing might have helped, too. 

Still, I've never experienced any of my photos going viral, if that's what this is.  I'll have to watch how this plays out.