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?!

Summer Cornfields

This is the sight that greeted me at my "letting Barney off the lead" spot today! I don't think you could get a much more beautiful sight, unless you are by the sea perhaps. However, for us landlocked people this will do nicely. If this were Instagram, there would be a #nofilter because there are absolutely no effects on this photo, the scene is stunning just as it is.

Summer Cornfields

However, Google in it's wisdom (?) did an "auto awesome" version of this which turned out thus:

Auto Awesome Summer Cornfields

Without blowing my own trumpet, I honestly prefer mine! What do you think?