I almost posted this photo of a robin but decided not to.
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Maybe for bad iNat photos we should have the equivalent of a Golden Raspberry Award (Razzy), as awarded for really terrible films and acting. But I’d limit it to records that attained Research Grade despite their terribleness.
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Photographing a small, distant animal through swamp water isn’t very easy.
Can you guess what this is?
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A Gerrie? (For Gerald of course, who’s not a great photo in it’s own right…) It did attain RG…
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I have several similar pictures that I didn’t put up as observations.
mine are daphnia and seed shrimp and whatever the red things are.
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These are actually pretty good, especially the fifth one, very clear picture.
I see those animals all the time in my pond but I never even tried to photograph them because I know my phone camera can’t possibly handle them.
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I feel like there should be some sort of observation field to tag bad photos like “Sorry it’s so bad”.
My latest: an American White Pelican. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/203967188#activity_identification_747c96af-4046-4bf4-86bc-bcf8b7b00e8b
It’s a pretty common bird but an early migrant which is why I posted it. Trying to contribute phenology data.
I don’t have a clue as to the black fowl. Maybe one of them is a Coot?
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I took this photo of a Sooty Tyrannulet but it’s not easy to find. He was very fast!
Can you spot him?
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Ha ha! the second photo is not too bad. You can mark up your photos, e.g putting a small coloured circle around a hard to spot specimen.
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I zoomed it because the first one is terrible.
Worst picture not only for the picture itself but because I was in the middle of a bramble bush, near a cycle lane, where everybody passing was starring at me and scaring the birds.
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it looks like an open book that someone tossed out the window and is drifting down… maybe a butterfly book (or a book butterfly?)
That is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time… maybe ever. Help! I can’t stop laughing! Thanks!
There’s an owl on top of the tree. I swear! My phone was as excited as me to finally see it, it couldn’t focus…
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It happens!
Haha, this happens to me haha!
These are two female deer (Dama dama), clearly visible through my binoculars, not so much through this smartphone photo. I just wanted to take a photo so this iNaturalist observation is part of the good memory of that outing!
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A new one! Check it out:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/212628147
They were too far away for me to take a better shot.
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Oh, that’s not so bad, I’ve seen worse! I have some not-so-great photos on iNat, but none that are super blurry or way too far away (I usually delete those in the first place!).
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