I first came to iNat because I wanted to ID various organisms I’d spotted in the course of pursuing my photography hobby. The Facebook page I started in the spring of 2020, Floral Respite, mostly shows urban flora, much of it cultivated. I began with a smartphone camera, soon upgraded to a basic mirrorless camera with macro extension tubes, and eventually invested in a macro lens.
The naturalist angle has really seized my imagination, so I’ve read up on countless taxa just to understand better what I’m seeing. Lately I’ve gravitated towards insects and other arthropods, whether or not they’re especially decorative.
For sheer drama, my favourite shot is of this house spider wrapping up a stink bug.
Here are stink bug nymphs.
I love the seemingly wry expression I read into the eye of this harvestman. Yeah, yeah, anthropomorphism, I know. 
Sometimes the detail I manage to capture amazes me! For example, on this hairy-eyed flower fly. (Of course, I sort through plenty o’ duds on the way to finding these!)
Last year, I had the great privilege of visiting Kew Gardens again for the first time in two decades. My very favourite shot from that trip is this marmalade hover fly, which I’ve just uploaded. Just noticed the omission now, though there remain many others to rectify.
I love springtails, especially globular springtails, such as this one, which evidently hitched a ride on my gear.
I’m proud of this rose prickle with two kinds of lichen.
Here is red clover with weevils.
I really worked to get the depth of field just so for this common bracken,
this yellowjacket behind a screen,
and this woodpecker fly.
Finally, here are more artistic version of photos I cropped more tightly for the iNat observations of a root-maggot fly and diamond spottail, respectively.
