As a writer and photographer, I have tried to encourage my middle school students and friends to look more closely at the natural world. I hope to get them outdoors, and for the elderly, bring the outdoors in to them when the world is more conventional. iNaturalist has helped me identify new discoveries for my website, https://www.sundewphotography.com/, and for programs I give to show others the beauty and diversity of nature and show how it can inspire art. Not being much of a taxonomist, it has helped me gain even more of a passion for diversity as I identify new species in the communities I explore.