I wanted to have a picture with all my Strava activities. I suppose my main motivation was to keep anyone following my account entertained. But then I became a bit too aware of the environmental cost of data. Every picture you take, that ends up in the cloud, requires some server somewhere whirring away in a big water-cooled data centre. Not good! So I stopped. If it is a big exciting hike or a very beautiful run I still do it, but I have stopped taking pictures of every commute. I must say that trying to find something photogenic in every commute made me appreciate the route even more than I already did. But I can appreciate it just with my eyes from now on. And if any Strava followers are bored, then so be it. Maybe those who never uploaded pictures anyway were just very environmentally friendly!
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| The last commute picture I took |
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