Crazy and strange things I’ve done to get good observations. Or just any at all. Stand on my tiptoes on top of 2in wide counter near my tv to catch a close up pic of a moth. Turn the stove off in the middle of cooking and run outside in bare feet to try and catch a pic of the Javelinas walking…

Taking pictures inside a port-a-potty. https://inaturalist.ca/observations/16307018 Looking at trees from four inches away to look and search for lichens. (I am nearsighted, four inches is my focal point without my glasses) Netting deer flies that are trying to bite me and turning them into observ…

My friend is studying orthoptera and was asking me to get some specimens every time I go to Crimea, and it was right when I started iNatting. Saw this https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/19996551 when was at the hotel pool, called my husband “we need it!”, it appeared that the window was much h…

I pretty regularly go out in the gravel driveway in front of my apartment or even behind it and just start flipping over pieces of wood, stone, etc. trying to find “cool bugs” for observation. It’s all I can do sometimes, especially since quarantine has started. I’ve had people walk past me, look at…

They are thinking you lost your housekey. Or maybe a burglar trying to find the housekey, lol. Probably what they’d think of me, I’m always wearing hoodies, even in the summer.

If you are like me, then that four inches involves only one eye. I find it impossible to focus both eyes at that distance!

I hope they wish you good luck finding what you’ve lost! Hah, just today had a policemen walking past me and giving me THAT kind of look when I was photographing a fly on my hand. xD Also as I usually search for insects on the walls, there was a group of teens going inside the building and talking b…

Lying on the floor filled with duck poop in a public garden full of people, left elbow in water with carps the size of my arm nibbling me, the LCD at 45 degrees trying to make shooting angle, only one hand holding the camera above water, lots of people looking at me like I was crazy… So much that co…

Casually scooping up dead beetles and butterflies near my office and hiding them in a backpack / pockets. I work in IT for a corporation, so this attracts some weird looks. Same with taking casual pictures of insects that are on the pavement there, I got some bonus weird stares by doing this in fr…

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brentturcotte March 26, 2020, 5:04pm 21

Agreed. Not only that but my x16 hand lens doesn’t really resolve much more details than my naked eyes but it does make the details look bigger.

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