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.
This was taken over a decade ago, but it’s one of my favorite photos I’ve ever taken. From the L.A. Zoo.
I remember going to zoo with my kids and watching as one giraffe drank the others pee.
I thought it was hilarious, my kids were horrified.
I agree with your children. Yesterday I watched a cheetah pee on a rock, and then another cheetah lick it. It was thoroughly horrifying.
Haha it’s pretty gross tbf.
I think giraffes do it to test the others current fertility.
No kink shaming in the zoo pls
Nice picture! Looks like the kid is standing on a step stool to reach the mom and kiss her.
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.
Wow, those spots really make it hard to make sense of them. I thought it was AI generated for a minute.
I believe this is a picture which got improved with AI, e.g. higher resolution / sharpening / deblur.
If it did, it was not on purpose. I took it from a Pixel 7, uploaded to imgur, then posted directly here. No intentional editing outside of what my phone may have done automatically without telling me.
Yeah, some phones do that especially when using zoom. You may find more information here.
I think that’s in Fort Worth, right? I saw the little one when it was about half that height. Did you stop by the cats?
Yep, this is Fort Worth. I did stop by the cats! The tiger was absolutely incredible. He was walking all around his enclosure and kept getting up close to where the people were watching from. I don’t know much about their behavior or mannerisms, but it almost looked like he was enjoying the attention. Or maybe he was just trying to decide on which child to eat. :)
My wife got better pictures than I did of the big cats, and especially the tiger, and we haven’t shared our favorite pictures with each other yet, so I don’t have any good ones to share at the moment.
Dare you to post the worst pic
Photoshop. Giraffes arent real
Your favourite picture is fake? #giraffesarentreal
Is this real or AI generated?
It’s real. Taken with my Pixel 7. I wouldn’t even know how to generate photos with AI. I have never looked into it.
Dude. Zoom in on that photo you posted – I think your phone used some kind of scripting to mess with the image.
You need to go buy a separate camera.
I guess I see it when I zoom on the grass. But it’s probably because I was zoomed like x6 when I took the photo in the first place, and the phone filled it in.
But honestly, it doesn’t take away from my enjoyment of this photo. I don’t enjoy photos by zooming in on the grass. I’m just looking at it on my phone and it looks nice. :)
Maybe if I took photos more than once a year I would consider buying a camera, but this was just a case of going to a place with my family and snapping a photo for fun.
Fair enough. Just be careful and remember your phone does that.
I was just reading about how to turn it off. It seems like people say to turn on RAW images, but I think that will take up a lot more space? Idk, I haven’t tried it yet.
It will take more space, and pictures very zoomed in will look pixelated and noisy. Phones and modern digital cameras do a lot of heavy processing on pictures to make them more attractive. They all do it, heck our brain does it too in everyday life, what we see is not what hits our retina. There’s no such thing as pure photography, even during the film era there was a lot of alteration that came with the choice of film and other camera settings. Ignore the Luddite purists, even the most advanced professional cameras do a lot of post-processing even if they do finally save the image to RAW. If the picture looks nice, then it looks nice. The Pixel got creative to fill in pixels it doesn’t have to make the picture nice, any other camera would have crapped out and given you a blurry and muddy mess.
Thanks, I feel the same way.
The Pixel series has a ton of postprocessing integrated into the photography. It usually results in something people find eye-popping, but I suppose this is the inevitable result when it sees something unfamiliar.
