Google Auto Awesome

When Google uploaded some photos from my phone last night, it added some special effects automatically.

Some examples:

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Apparently, these are examples of the new Google Auto Awesome.

Google Effects added in these photos were *Snow* and *Twinkle*. As far as I can see, the original photos were saved, and others created with the effects.

The photos were taken in Dyker Heights.

Men With Beards 2 - The Lineage

I Hope They Are Joking

Pretentious Toronto - Geomorphic Assessment

What the heck is a Geomorphic Assessment? 

I Googled it when we got home and seems to me that Wilket Creek Park could have gotten away with just doing a Environmental Clean Up. 

Thanksgivukkah in Toronto

Thanksgivukkah in Rochester

Like a picture postcard

View from the Hyatt

High Falls

Lamberton Conservatory

I Wore Out My Library Card

For Once, I Didn't Mind Waiting at the Light at Plainfield Ave

Mixed Messages

Camouflage pants and that hat?

Playing Tourist in Central Park

I love NY! 

We took the (free!) West Side Stories Tour with the Central Park Conservancy on Sunday. Highly recommended. 

But what I enjoyed most about Central Park are all the street performers and various other people.  Here are some of those we saw in just a little time in the park:

Jazz Ensemble.  Did their best to drown out guides Marge and Valerie. 

Very cool!

Photo Shoot

Not sure if Ms. Pink Hair and Mr Native American Looking Guy's whole act is just setting up and then not actually playing, since we got tired of watching them putter around and finally left.

Wedding

Acapella Group 

Bagpiper. Didn't even bother to wear a kilt!

Lots of guitar players.  "Imagine". "Strawberry Fields".  I think there is a law that only lets them play Beatles music. 

Flaming Sunset Over Home Depot

This sunset over Home Depot matched the logo exactly!

Once in a Blue Moon - Canoeing and Kayaking the Meadowlands With Hackensack Riverkeeper

Stupendous full moon canoe/kayak Tuesday evening in the Meadowlands with the awesome Hackensack Riverkeeper

At the dock in Laurel Hill Park in Secaucus

The "Before" picture

That's the eastern spur of NJ Turnpike in the background

Tree full of black crowned night herons 

One World Trade Center and lower Manhattan 

John,  lead guide

Narrowish channel

Eastern Spur NJ Turnpike

Loved the reflections of the sky in the water! 

We were near Newark

These might have been egrets

Empire State Building in red on lower right

One World Trade Center 

Headlamps for safety - if you get lost, it helps them find you