Fun With Google’s Auto Awesome

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Posted February 22, 2014

Dale Hunter gets the ‘Mix’ treatment. Innovative. (Photos by Caps Outsider)

I recently set up my Google account to automatically back up all of my photos. This included thousands of Washington Capitals photos over the years. Most of them were so old that I likely never planned to look at them again. Then something I didn’t expect happened – Google ‘Auto Awesome’ made several of them come to life. Sure, in this day of giffing everything, these are rather tame, but considering that this was software that made this automatically, based on old photos in my own albums, I found this rather amusing. Unfortunately, it didn’t think anyone in these photos were in love.

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Sometimes, Google thinks it’s snowing.

Fight!

Fight!

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Bruce Boudreau, in Ducks gear, skates with DC-area beer leaguers.

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Craig Laughlin skates at The Gardens’ Ice House in Laurel.

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Redskins’ Ryan Kerrigan waves to the crowd.

Another fight!

Another fight!

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Here I am, rock you like a Hurricane!

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Unleash the Fury!

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Matt Hendricks returns to Verizon Center for the first time since leaving.

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The Caps’ pride and joy of the 2012-13 season.

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Still snowing.

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Red Rocker Danielle poses for Caps Outsider.

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Holtby being Holtby.

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Jason Chimera messes with Al Koken.

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Braden Holtby hangs with young fan Braden.

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The one image missed – the child pointing for Steve Ott to leave.

We won!

We won!

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Thousands of ice hockey photos, only a few of them had snow.

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John Kerry meets the Olympians.

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