This photo of a wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) is probably my worst, and I can’t blame it to gear or anything but me. I was so excited and knew that it would be gone fast, so I was shaking too much.
not long after I first started using inat I encountered a bat (probably E. fuscus) flying around on an unseasonably warm December evening in Massachusetts. It was too dark to get a clear photo but I managed to take a video where its movements make the shadow vaguely recognizable as a bat. Normally I wouldn’t try to upload something like that but I thought a bat active in the middle of winter was noteworthy enough that I converted the video into an animated gif and attempted to upload it (since i’d seen gifs in other observations).
The gif was very grainy and the upload process didn’t work as I’d hoped, resulting in an observation with this still image:
It’s so bad I can’t even tell if the bat is in this frame or not
Hard to pick between small insects that my phone has trouble focusing on and birds which are too far away for a decent photo. Spiders on webs are terrible to have to focus on, so this one’s definitely up there.
Some of my bird observations are only IDable by call:
This one: oh look, parakeets!
I was so excited to spot them, well, the picture definitely didn’t provide much information :P
Second place ex-aequo:
Capreolus capreolus
Oryctolagus cuniculus
I really need to revive my camera, it’s just painful to look at.
This Stream Cruiser dragonfly. I wouldn’t have bothered posting if this wasn’t a very uncommon species in my part of the state. Amazing this even came out as identifiable! :) https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/25910209
This one 
The one day of the holiday when I left my camera behind because I was worried about it getting sandy on the beach or stolen from the car and I see a leucistic sparrow.
I call this one the Hummingblur Hawksmudge. Still managed to get to RG, because what else could it be, really.
This is probably my worst one yet. I was desperate to get this one on my lifelist and I was pretty frantic in taking the photo.
Very eerie, almost analog horror style. Makes me imagine a multitude of sea monsters and haunted shipwrecks
I am saddened there is not even ONE picture of a sasquatch in these, as blurry, tiny in the distance, or pixellated is usually a requirement to report one of them. haha
“I think Bigfoot is blurry, that’s the problem. It’s not the photographer’s fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that’s extra scary to me. There’s a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. ”
Also, if you ever do spot Bigfoot, here’s the appropriate project:
Cryptozoology · iNaturalist 
I have some pretty bad observations, my phone had a terrible time with birds, it would always do something weird with the color.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/145908461
This one is just my fault. It was raining.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/145908502
This bear is very hard to see.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/131146069
Very blurry caiman
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/145908508
Armadillo… ( I think ? )
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/145281420
This is probably my worst - so bad I had to outline it to show where the hedgehog was!! It was a speedy little so-and-so: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/54197088
This topic resonates with me though - just this morning I didn’t have a good camera with me and so this just about identifiable red-necked grebe was the outcome of the trip to the nature reserve! https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/152021149
This is such an encouraging thread! It’s ok to have slightly dodgy photos on iNat!!
