"Best" photos you've uploaded on iNat

[owlshead-wren]

Wow, the resolution on all of these is excellent!

[owlshead-wren]

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/234687652

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/234724061

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/234721889

[chipperatl]

Primrose Moth

[giannamaria]

I like this one:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/229809830
It’s a picture of a frog that regularly visits my garden, likely looking for things to eat. It became used to me quickly and let me get close enough to get this front-view picture of its face. I like the shiny green of the skin, and the way the frog is sitting. I also think it has quite a nice looking face.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172883070

I just think this is a neat looking picture. Like the frog, I like the way that this fly is sitting.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/223592307
I posted this picture on the forum before, but this cute guy deserves it :-) I love the way that the legs draw attention to the harvestman’s face. I also like that I was able to get a picture of it grooming.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/227115927
This was taken with my phone and macro lens. Besides the position, the color contrasts of the pink and green, and then the blue and orange, make this a colorful picture.

[invertebratist]

Absolutely cute. It’s always good to see cute things on iNat

[lawrence_from_california]

Black-footed Albatross was my worst, but a different Black-footed Albatross might be a contender for one of my best. They are pretty photogenic species if you get to see them up close.

I want to say this Northern Pygmy-Owl was a much luckier shot though.

I don’t really post anything and everything to iNaturalist, just anything I want to document because it’s rare, or anything I need identified. So I don’t have all my best photos uploaded. These are just some of the ones I did choose to upload that are pretty good. I’m not a professional photographer or anything either, I just want to document the species and try to get better photos as I come across the opportunities. I don’t really go out of my way for photography.

[oksanaetal]

@giannamaria

I like this one:

I do too! It’s great!

[giannamaria]

Thanks! It has so much expression

[alanyoshioka]

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.

[alanyoshioka]

So hard to pick just a few…

Fabulous shots, @grasshopperspath and @majordomo, among so many others! And, ooh, @RL7836!

[oksanaetal]

W O W! You should enter a photo contest - these are incredible!

[alanyoshioka]

Thanks, @oksanaetal, I sincerely appreciate the encouragement!

[do_nature]

I think for me it is the Great Egret picture i took in my local trail area. I mean you can be the judge of it https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/231654244

[oksanaetal]

Where is the observation?

[lj_l]

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/33695488

[oksanaetal]

Thanks!

[quillipede]

I may have a new “best”. This photo of a golden-mantled ground squirrel turned out shockingly good. It was a very obliging little squirrel!

[GothHobbit]

@quillipede

It was a very obliging little squirrel!

Oh, that photo came out wonderfully! And yes; when they’re cooperative, they’re darned photogenic.