Conquering new lands

"Then came the churches then came the schools,
Then came the lawyers then came the rules,
Then came the trains and the trucks with their load,
And the dirty old track was the telegraph road."

Telegraph Road, Dire Straits

The railroad is moving out of the urban areas and swallowing thousands of acres of what once was soil good for corn and wheat fields. I can't understand if it's more the town that needs for new people to get into its maze or its citizens, who are longing to move out one day.

I took these pictures with my proudly-not-an-Apple mobile camera during a bike ride with my son, last January. I'll never be able to make a high resolution print. These are merely considered toy cam pics: matter just good for the web. Yet I do find they're the real challenge technology is offering us today. Not going around with full fledged workstations in our pockets but trying to squeeze the best out of these additional features of a device namely made for talking, that weren't thought for fine art pictures.

A new ToyCam

I just managed to have my company mobile changed. The old one was barely able to ring. I dropped a couple of months ago the idea that is was something that was designed and made to let me talk with someone else. So, when I said my boss I would have bought a new one on the next business travel that I was plannig (and claim the expense on my return to office), soon I was contacted by the Service Center, saying that my replacement had "just" arrived.

Black magic!

Trying to understand how this new plastic pad with nearly one hundred buttons works, I discovered that it has a built-in camera much better than the previous one (even though the hole on its back is more or less the same). So, upon my very first mountain bike ride of the year, I took it with me and made some snaps around.
Not bad, in the end. That's why I'm thinking right now whether I should take my compact cam with me tomorrow morning, as I'm going back to Goteborg, or just rely on my new ToyCam.