# Grouping photos

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/grouping-photos/29016>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [January 13, 2022, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/grouping-photos/29016 "2022-01-13T16:29:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![helen48](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/helen48/32/16352_2.png) [@helen48](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/helen48)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/grouping-photos/29016/1 "2022-01-13T16:29:50Z")

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help! I have posted several photos of the same species collected in different locations and would prefer to add them all to one observations. But I cannot see how to do that to include all the infor about lat, lon and date of collection. Help! from helen48

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**Author:** ![bouteloua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bouteloua/32/1180_2.png) [@bouteloua](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bouteloua)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/grouping-photos/29016/2 "2022-01-13T16:34:54Z")

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Hi Helen! If you saw a species/organism at different times and locations, they should always be documented as _separate_ observations on iNaturalist. [https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/help#observations1](https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/help#observations1)

> **An observation records an encounter with an individual organism at a particular time and location.** This includes encounters with signs of organisms like tracks, nests, or things that just died. You should make separate observations for each separate critter you encounter. iNaturalist provides a place to add this information along with associated text, photos, and tags. If you revisit an organism, such as returning to a plant when it’s in bloom for additional photographs, you should make a separate observation because it was observed on a different date.

If you want to see all your observations of a particular species on one page, you can click “Your Observations” at the top of [iNaturalist.org](http://iNaturalist.org) and then search for that species.

Like this: [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place\_id=any&subview=table&taxon\_id=160666&user\_id=helen48&verifiable=any](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&subview=table&taxon_id=160666&user_id=helen48&verifiable=any)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/5/9/59b8a5311fce6545fc67695197cfb5e628744c41.png)

Let us know if that doesn’t address your question.

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**Author:** ![marina\_gorbunova](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/marina_gorbunova/32/31454_2.png) [@marina\_gorbunova](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/marina_gorbunova)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/grouping-photos/29016/4 "2022-01-13T19:02:19Z")

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This [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/70209023](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/70209023) and [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/70209022](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/70209022) is the same leaf, you don’t need to merge different specimens, but you need to delete duplicate.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/grouping-photos/29016/5 "2022-03-14T19:02:32Z")

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