Time has a different meaning when you’re old. Time during the day? Yeah, you might have more. Time left on the planet? Getting short.
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…and then open their computers and start identifying what the old people photograph for you!
Welcome! You youngest are inspiration to the oldest. It like seeing our hard work pay in bringing you up… and outside!
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i’m currently 15 and have been using inaturalist for the past two and half years as a (semi)active user. i was really surprised by how welcoming the community has been and how great of a place this is to sustain the passion i’ve had for nature since i was young. i found out about inat when i was about nine and used it on my parent’s phone without an account for a bit until i was older, and i really think inat (along with my local zoo) is what has really motivated me to pursue a career in biology.
i’d like to thank any of the inat “veterans” who have made this place the amazing nature community that it is and for being so patient with me as i learn more! no matter how old you are, you’re really cool 
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When I’m looking for living things I definitely feel that enthusiasm from when I was in my teens-twenties. In all other aspects of life I feel roughly 97-99 years old (give or take).
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haha yessss
also you guys are the ones with the fancy cameras so its lots of fun to identify photos that look straight out of a documentary ha
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Except I can no longer hold a DSLR, not in my hands all day, nor around my neck or shoulders, so I use a hand held iPhone. The downside of not aging gracefully. They do keep improving these smaller cameras though!
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tbf i need a lighter camera too so i can take pictures of really skittish reptiles
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Welcome to iNaturalist!
I’ve been on iNaturalist for five years, I’m just new to the forum.
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It’s early spring… and honestly? It’s going to take until Late spring to work out the winter kinks and get the photographers yoga back!
Early spring I feel older, by beginning of summer I’ll be feeling so much younger!!!
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Then why won’t it focus on the right thing no matter how much I yell at it?
To answer the question in the title, I’m 30. I started here because I had taken an interest in adding plants to my sparse yard, and wanted a way to identify what was already there and ask for advice.
Plant? I use a small card, unless I want ‘fingers for scale’. Random example among many
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/269584999
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(I had to shut off Siri, we got in too many arguments)
Two handed iPhone photography.
I use a “pop socket” on the back of phone to hold it with two fingers. Using the thumb of that hand I press on the subject to focus the auto focus lock-in square.
The free hand is used as backdrop focus ( like Diana’s paper) . When all is as well focused as you can, holding the focus in place with thumb, use other hand to trip shutter.
Remember that you can also use the volume down button as a shutter release.
Practice, practice, practice!
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How did I not know that?!! How did I not even discover it by accident, after years of awkwardly trying to touch the shutter “button” on the screen with my thumb, while holding my phone in my right hand and a plant in my left?
Oh, joy!
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My being ambidextrous has come in handy!
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