I would like to offer another iNaturalist free training workshop on Saturday July 11th, from 10 A.M. to 12 noon at a location to-be-announced in Orangeville. I will send the specific location as well as a reading list to those who RSVP to me.
- Bring a camera, any special lenses you have, a tripod if one is required to do careful focusing by your camera and lenses, a notebook, a laptop or tablet or smartphone, and questions. I have several tripods you can borrow. Or just come, although the more you attempt the more I believe you’ll learn.
- If you do not have an iNaturalist account, I’ll suggest that you set one up ahead of time. They are free, and it takes only a couple of minutes to get your account basically established. Go to https://www.inaturalist.ca/
- I will send those who RSVP to me a short reading list that might take you half an hour ahead of time.
- We will go outside to do some observing, and take some photos. I’m a a generalist, and so is iNaturalist. So I’m suggesting that you record even a few observations. During that time, I’ll demonstrate some of the specific observations I try to answer for several specimens. (You could also bring some of your recent observations.)
- Then we’ll come inside, and look at ways that we can, within our own limits, improve our observations. This will inevitably involve editing some of our photographic observations, using simple tools such as cropping and lightly touching up exposure, options available in even the simplest photo editing software.
- We’ll then go through the steps in uploading our observations into your personal iNaturalist account if you have one, or into mine.
RSVP to Mark Whitcombe,markwhitcombe34@gmail.com
Mark Whitcombe’s iNaturalist account
Josh Pickering as created two projects for ‘Orangeville’ out of interest and promotion of natural heritage features and species within the town! He pulled a map file (KML file) from Dufferin County mapping and uploaded the new ‘location’ on iNaturalist for the Orangeville boundary. If you are interested in creating additional projects, you can do so more easily because of the new existence of the Town of Orangeville boundary. For the projects I created, one is the ‘Biodiversity of the Town of Orangeville”, here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/biodiversity-of-the-town-of-orangeville and the other project is the ‘Birds of the Town of Orangeville’, here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/birds-of-the-town-of-orangeville