And my camera decided to try and second-guess me. “No, you’ve taken lots of ode photos today. Look at those cattail leaves! Aren’t they amazing?”
I think it’s great that camera manufacturers have perfected an embedded iNat companion AI that encourages us to delve deeper into botany. It’s really helpful when you spot a lifer and neglect the sublime beauty of some random branch.
That’s a demon! A screaming lady demon. Some type of demon.
I like the idea of this, but how do they enforce that people are only submitting their own observations?
I can imagine someone adding another user’s observation here with no malice intended (trying to “help” an observation get an ID), but the observer seeing the Project title and the description (“Submit your crappy photos” ) and being hurt/offended/disheartened.
It does look more like a capybara, but less like a photograph. I like it!
Like something DALL·E 2 might come up with?
Eg. “A capybara in a spooky forest, in the style of creepypasta images”
There’s also Observational Comedy, which would be a good place for lots of these fine examples!
I’ll always be perversely proud of the lousiness of my very first observation. What it lacks in total blurriness, it makes up for in paucity of pixels!
I’ve also got lots of stunning photos of bird butts.
You should join this project: The Butt End Of Nature · iNaturalist
It seemed so cool at the time https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/151736877
Haha! I see a bit of upped contrast can help a lot! I’m still learning along the way, and only in the last month have I started editing my photos at all after taking them
It’s a yellowfin mojarra, a common species in South Florida coastal and brackish waters
I amn’t experienced with fish, only with planthoppers… That also 8 months or so…
I got a lot of shitty pics on a long road trip, taking pics out the window of a moving car (for clarification, I was not the one driving!). Many of these I am genuinely surprised reached research grade!
Brown Falcon
Brolga
Intermediate Egret
Well uh. It’s a bird. I think
Blue-winged Kookaburra
Rainbow Lorikeet
Little Corella
Black-necked Stork
A visit from the AI Bird.
I also think. Now that is fat!
very effective.
well, I see that the legs are blurred even in the sharpened photo. Still pretty good :)
These were so much fun. I’ve uploaded some awful photos but this thread brought to mind 2 especially.
First of the season https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/153089604
and this one is clear but an unfortunate angle. I know what it is because I watched it for a while. It’s a real challenge to ID from the photo though. Flew away before more photos could be made. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/65015279
