Google Auto Awesome

All my photos taken on my phone are automatically backed up to Google Photos. From there it is easy to put them on here, after editing if necessary. When I do edit them first, I take quite some care to ensure it is making the picture reflect what I saw and / or felt.

However, Google, in its wisdom, has developed an "Auto Awesome" feature that takes random photos saved to your cloud and makes them "awesome" ummm... I don't think so...

How can this "Auto Awesome" photo:

be considered awesome compared to the orginal:

Or this "Auto Awesome":

Compared to the original:

And if I wanted to use effects so that this:

became this:

then I would. Please Google, stop Auto Awesoming my photos. What you do to them is NOT awesome. It is very annoying!

Does it irritate anyone else as much as me?!

Butterfly Close Ups

I really wanted a picture of it's wings spread - mottled white with bright orange tips. Beautiful.

Wild Garlic

You can tell Spring is in full swing when the wild garlic appears!

Wild Garlic making a Spring Day look like Winter

Mind you it was taken on 7th May, 2015. It will be winter for many people for five long years.

Wild Garlic 9th May, 2015

No filter used on either photograph.