I am a professional artist, not a scientist, but I’ve long been fascinated by the natural world, especially reptiles, amphibians, and arthropods. I love to photograph them—up close whenever possible—and want to use iNaturalist to identify and document the things I see out when I'm out exploring. I'd love one day to be able to offer identifications on other people's finds, but I'm not there yet. Some of my observation IDs are "my best guesses" right now, so thank you to everyone who's taken a minute to help me identify some of my finds.