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The mother Giraffe was being very affectionate and rubbing her face on the young giraffe. I just kept snapping photos until I got this one, where they looked like they were sharing a special moment together.
Good composition, but the "enhancement" done by the phone makes it look like a watercolor or AI art unfortunately.
Edit: Disagree? Zoom in on the grass or leaves.
Relax. It's what modern phones do to make extremely zoomed photos look better. The processor fills in detail with sampled brush strokes. Years ago you would be complaining that it was too pixelated mess, nowadays it's a nice photo This is one of the very few actually genuine uses of machine learning assisted image enhancement, as the prompt is the picture itself. Stop zooming into pictures of grass and start actually going outside and touching some.
The pile of logs to the left looked so odd I had to zoom. Then I saw the weird filter they used. I’d love to see the original, or something not run through a prism style filter.
This is the original. I took it with my Pixel 7. Whatever it did, it did automatically, probably because I was zoomed really far in when I took it.