Photo plants! They’re important, probably under-reported, very vulnerable to climate change, abundant, and diverse. I go out to photo plants, plus any animals that stay still enough for me to photo. I’ll never get on the leaderboard, but 500 observations so far this month isn’t shabby, either.
I download from my camera to my computer. There I crop photos, throw out the worst ones, label, and upload. A camera with GPS would really help! However, I’m OK with selecting all and picking a central location with a large enough “accuracy” to include all the observations. Or sometimes I map the observations individually. Depends on how I feel and what I’m trying to do. (Sometimes I want to record everything in a small park, for example.)
I find that I usually have to spend as much time processing and uploading as I did in the field, sometimes more. Wish it were otherwise, but there it is. (Right now I still have lots of photos to upload from four days in the field last week.)
Being mostly retired gives me time to work on this, but some of the people I do ID’s for are working on grants to record the biodiversity of an area, so they post a huge amount. Leaderboard amounts.
I like to see and post good quality photos, for sure! (Who doesn’t?) However, anything identifiable is good enough, and sometimes I’ve posted some pretty terrible but marginally identifiable photos. The observations that make me want to reach through the internet and shake the person are lovely, artistic photos of a flower, nothing else. Couldn’t you post at least one leaf, so I could actually ID this to species???