"Best" photos you've uploaded on iNat

[jasonhernandez74]

@quantum_mistake

I don’t shoot for composition in these.

Nevertheless, that’s a good shot of the starlings!

[tisli]

@hihi

I love the mushroom one. What species is that?

Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria)

[bamm321]

That mushroom photo looks fantastically unreal! It looks like it should be in the middle of a fairy village :)

[quantum_mistake]

I mean, who says it’s not?

They live in our minds. They are wherever we imagine they are.

[quantum_mistake]

what is the second to the last one (woodpecker lookin’ thing)?

I can’t remember.

[F.S]

Every photo I uploaded in iNat were taken with my old smartphone camera, so nothing I post has professional quality, but these are pretty decent:

[hihi]

Northern Flicker.

[thefungiphotographer]

Thanks! To add to what tisli said, it’s an American fly agaric (Amanita muscaria flavivolvata)

[quantum_mistake]

this one is pretty good

At least, I like it.

[maite39]

it’s a very nice shot

[danly]

I’ve taken lots of photos of Ruby-throated hummingbirds, but this one of a male at rest is my favorite:

I like this Northern cardinal launching from the feeder- I couldn’t see the spreading of her tail with my naked eye, but the camera captured it:

Monarch butterflies are charismatic and beautiful, of course, and Common milkweed flowers are quite fascinating up close:

Bees are generally photogenic. This Two-spotted bumblebee is a favorite:

[grasshopperspath]

So after spending way too much time looking for photos…
So hard to pick just a few…

[jonhakim]

I don’t know if it’s my best, but it’s by far my most famous.

I’ve been in conversations with people at herping events and had them exclaim, “Wait, so YOU’RE the skeptical snake guy?!?!”

[JaneBP]

Great photos! That hummer photo is gorgeous!

[cs16-levi]

It is a Flicker, a woodpecker species that specializes in eating ants.

[eyekosaeder]

@danly

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At a glance, I thought this was a weird fish while scrolling by. Haha. I love the photo!

[stop4snakes]

I use an iPhone 8+ that won’t focus to take pictures, so I was really happy with these two photos.

[maite39]

Theyre really nice.

[argaby]

[edLike]

Just stand still in the woods long enough and things can happen. We are about 8 feet apart and I am down wind. The breeze was very light but the sound of my camera did not spook them. They decided I should be avoided but was not a threat.
The closest encounter I have had using this technique was about 1 foot and just down wind in a stiff breeze. I would bend back and forth with the gusts of wind and they acted as though I was a shrub. I could creep forward as I swayed in the breeze. They would move away a few feet If I got to within a foot. That happened before cell phones and I had no camera that day. When we parted, they never knew I was there.