Roadkill is horrible, I hate to see it up close every time, so I now religeously document all of it in the hopes of getting it more attention so that we will start doing about it… But every one breaks my heart…
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This, or processing it for the bones. It is a shame to see it, but now it has the potential to be something it (sadly) couldn’t be in life.
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- happily include a random tree in foreground when photographing Aurora, so I can post the photo to iNat
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…in addition to what everyone has already shared…you see this in the news and think, this company is clearly trying to market to us iNaturalists (and it just might work…can I specifically request this addition, no, that would be wrong, stop it! 
): https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cn7y80l6e7yo
…you lament not having learned of iNaturalist until late 2021(! 
), but at the same time you’re relieved because you worry that you might not have been as attentive as a parent had you known sooner…but, you could have shared it with your child and maybe ignited a passion in them…it’s fine, really…2021 was when you most needed it!
…you have your cellphone on you at all times because you know that the moment you don’t is when the lifer will appear and then be gone before you can do a thing about it
…despite lifelong arachnophobia, you now actively search for spiders to photograph, relying on zoom and photo-stabilizing technology to help you get pictures, even though if the spider moves toward you, you will definitely freak out and dodge it, until you get upload-worthy pictures (or muscle cramps that force you to stop trying…for now…)
…when you’ve moved to a place that has true winter and observation opportunities are painfully sparse, and the weather is too unbearable for you to go out in that day, you will spend hours combing through old photos for things you may have missed, or worse, you find your sense of what’s an acceptable quality photo eroding because you’ve just got to post something…oh the shame!..but, I’m getting that syncing 
/sinking feeling again… 
…you think about the cross-country trips you took before you knew about iNaturalist, sure, you’ve already uploaded would you could from them (edit for winter: but, have you?), but you remember you saw (and were very upset by) dead armadillos when you crossed Texas, and you know that now, you would stop and photograph them (you’d still be upset, but, the lost opportunity haunts you, which is also disturbing)
…you fantasize about just getting in the car and driving to get to some different biome, or maybe you could fly somewhere, how many days could you manage, could we become nomads, should we just move??? 
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Was this last night? They were beautiful!
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I have the same problem. I know as soon as I go outside without a camera I’m going to find something I need to photograph.
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Oh yes… that’s true. Sometimes I think of it as preventing me from seeing something, too…
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I like good (detailed, sharp) photos better than blurry photos, just like everyone else.
Still, when having to choose between a good photo and no photo at all – well, you don’t really have a choice.
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An email just went around your workplace advising of a snake near the front door and the first thing you do is check if it is your building to see if you can potentially get a photo. And you want to quiz admin about what it looked like.
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You know you’re seriously into iNat when
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Can I please add 10 s to this post?
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…when you’re on day ‘just kill me already’ of the Creeping Crud, and instead of being in bed like a sensible biped, you’re hanging around on the Forum, because you know that your fellow iNatters will provide entertainment and distraction.
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I know how you feel… The only times I’ve seen Gray Foxes in person were either taxidermy, or roadkill. Someday I’ll get an observation of one!
EVERY TIME. And then they keep walking around and causing weird static on the recording
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When Google Photos makes you a slideshow but it’s a slideshow of twenty dead and rotting fish with gentle piano music in the background
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So true!
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You know you’re seriously into iNat when you walk up to the bar, and the bartender eagerly approaches you, and you have to explain that you don’t want a drink, and you don’t have any questions . . . you spotted some taxidermy above the bar, and you wanted to see if you could ID the bird / see if the fish was painted realistic colours, etc.
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My fiancee just yelled at me because apparently “staying up till 2 am looking at bugs isn’t appropriate when recovering from bronchitis” and “if I see even a hint of blue light outside I’m locking you out”
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Seems unreasonable. Looking at bugs is the closest to a cure for everything humanity has ever gotten
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You know you’re seriously into iNat when you frequently see trivia questions with “correct answers” that you disagree with, because you know more than the people who wrote the questions.
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When you go to your grandparent’s pool, but the only reason you swim is to save the insects and spiders on the pool water surface! And of course, you make sure to add an observation for them! 
A lot of the photos your family has of you are you bent over looking in a bush counting/ looking for bugs… 
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