I’ve had some funny iNat-related experiences and it made me laugh to think of how many positive, and often quite funny effects my usage has had on my life. Go ahead and finish the topic title sentence with your own endings. Here are some of mine to start: You know you’re seriously into iNat when …

…you browse second-hand binocular microscopes on online shopping websites.

[image] crellow: …you browse second-hand binocular microscopes on online shopping websites. and have saved searches for them on auction sites!

… your days ends with checking the tides for the next day … your day starts when you sit on the deck, observe the weather and listen to the surf before you decide what you are going to do … you have two cameras - one for underwater and one for land and you hardly take photos of people … you have …

…when iNat is down for maintenance, you check every other minute to see if its up again.

…you see this thread as Tips and Tricks on how to spend even more time iNatting.

[image] whaichi: … you’ve almost perfected the art of kneeling on one shoe (right knee on left shoe) in order to take better insect photos while wearing a suit or other nice clothing That is an awesome idea, wonder why I never considered that as a possibiliy. Directly tried it out - and didn’…

yes, I tried it too! And not even just for suits/nice clothing… I always have dirty knees from kneeling and looking for bugs… not any more!

Really excited to hear that the idea is a useful one! What I find most helpful is resting my right elbow on my right thigh and wrapping the inside of my left elbow around my left knee and pulling back slightly. That keeps my body compact and means I’m swaying less while taking photos.

… you try to put at least a basic ID on every observation in your region which doesn’t already have one … you learn about a new organism and immediately remember an observation in your region which you were unable to ID to kingdom … and spend more than an hour searching for it so you can ID it … …

This one is legit and totally relatable for me!:joy:

You know you're seriously into iNat when

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carnifex May 11, 2019, 8:25am 158

That is an awesome idea, wonder why I never considered that as a possibiliy. Directly tried it out - and didn’t fall over :)

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