# Add descriptions attached to individual photos **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Requests\ **Tags:** web, android-app, ios-classic-app\ **Created:** [March 14, 2019, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-descriptions-attached-to-individual-photos/921 "2019-03-14T19:48:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![thompsonmark23](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/thompsonmark23/32/1210_2.png) [@thompsonmark23](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/thompsonmark23)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-descriptions-attached-to-individual-photos/921/1 "2019-03-14T19:48:41Z")
The ability to describe the details of a particular photo could be a very helpful way to avoid confusion for other identifiers. ---
**Author:** ![leptonia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/leptonia/32/230_2.png) [@leptonia](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/leptonia)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-descriptions-attached-to-individual-photos/921/2 "2019-03-14T20:55:50Z")
I agree! I usually just list my descriptions in the order that the photos appear, but the ability to explicitly caption the photos would be really awesome. C ---
**Author:** ![ruidasilvapinto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/ruidasilvapinto/32/1265_2.png) [@ruidasilvapinto](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/ruidasilvapinto)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-descriptions-attached-to-individual-photos/921/3 "2019-03-14T23:06:01Z")
That is a great suggestion, it would be somewhat nice in the case of detailed pictures (higher magnification pictures of a certain character in a specific view) or pictures highlighting a certain character of the individual ---
**Author:** ![janetwright](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/janetwright/32/519_2.png) [@janetwright](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/janetwright)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-descriptions-attached-to-individual-photos/921/4 "2019-03-15T01:03:54Z")
Often I read the “description” text without actually looking at all the pictures. If that text were buried in the pictures, I wouldn’t see it by looking at the description. Just an alternate view. I do like the idea of annotating the pictures with arrows, circles, etc. ---
**Author:** ![kiwifergus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/kiwifergus/32/1904_2.png) [@kiwifergus](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/kiwifergus)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 9:48am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-descriptions-attached-to-individual-photos/921/5 "2019-03-15T09:48:45Z")
I think captions on photos is a great idea, being able to label as lateral view, dorsal, eyefield etc… ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 10:25pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-descriptions-attached-to-individual-photos/921/6 "2019-03-15T22:25:08Z")
This is already being considered with a photo annotations/photo type functionality so I’m going to close this topic. Here is a topic for photo annotations ideas: [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/photo-annotations/937](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/photo-annotations/937) ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 10:25pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-descriptions-attached-to-individual-photos/921/7 "2019-03-15T22:25:10Z")