Maybe this could go into feature request section. When I photograph a lifeform I am often unsure of the specific parts of the plant or animal that help people identify it from similar species. Likewise, when I am IDing other people’s observations, I often comment on what parts of the lifeform they…

You can search forum, there’s a similar post and as I remember it’s a request you can vote for.

Further to this, it would actually be really useful to be able to tag photos based on the view taken (e.g. dorsal, ventral) and making these tags filterable. Especially when trawling through hundreds of photos trying to identify spiders from a certain angle, this would be a real time saver!

Yes we are waiting patiently for iNat to enable annotating single photos. Much more useful to be able to filter for ‘photos of fruit - end of’ Instead of what we have now - all the photos from obs which include fruit. But you still have to hunt down the photos of actual fruit. Plus it is all depe…

One of the most under-identified kingdoms is Fungi, so if one wants to help any identifiers, please include good photos of all parts of a mushroom or bracket - cap, gills, stem, underside pore surface. Also include in the comments any other features such as type of wood surface, description of habit…

That is one thing I have learned the hard way on here and only thanks to someone leaving comments in my fungi observations. It’s one reason I posted this (even if it has been posted before but I didn’t see that it had).

To help get an unknown gall IDed I recommend at least the first 3 shots here; Upper surface of gall Lower surface of gall (even if there appears to be nothing there, sometimes that is a clue) Context - a more zoomed out shot with leaf or twig that the gall is on If unsure of host ID, a shot of oth…

Maybe if we can per photo annotations, we could have multiple life stages or multiple sexes in animalia observations with multiple photos featuring more than one individual!

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