Today I finally ventured into the new (to me) and frightening (to me) realm of changing taxon-page photos. 
Is there any way to add a note when changing photos, to explain (or at least briefly note) why I did that? I would feel a lot better about tidying up some of these things if I had some way to note what I was doing. (Like, āadding a photo of a juvenileā or āthis photo is very nice but also completely redundantā.)
You could put the info on a taxon flag, but otherwise I donāt think this is possible. But the changes will be recorded so curators can see past photos.
I often rearrange existing photos, so the first few each show different useful info. Flower, leaf, fruit, wide view. That triggers a clunky history of moved picture 11 to 5 ā¦
Apart from the odd exception - I want MY picture to be The Taxon Picture - we change the pictures for good reason (I want a picture of fruit, not 12 different pretty flowers, thanks). Take courage - I am happy to presume that your reasons will be good, as you suggested up there.
So long as you donāt remove, or move down out of sight, what was clearly chosen to display field marks.
If youāre not confident that your decisions are correct or an improvement, you could send a message to a person that commonly identifies that species to get a second opinion.
You can not explain this, unless you leave a comment on the observation, such as: this shows clearly the ā¦ which is diagnostic for the species. But that is not required.
Please keep on improving taxon photo selection - that is very useful and a true community service for all iNat users.
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