I usually don't edit the photos. Sometime, I'd like to learn that, too, but it's too time consuming for right now.

As far as submitting to iNaturalist, once you learn to recognize the different species, submitting the observations is very fast and simple. A lot of the time, I'll just do the submissions through their cell phone app while watching TV.

By the way, I see that your account is new, so I wanted to mention that if you're using AI to write your comments, you should say so. It is generally disfavored here when people try to pass off an AI's writing as their own.