Pond Boss Forums INTRO Common Pond Q&A (archives) How To Pictures for Plant Identification

Here is a thread that has a series of posts that describe how to best take pictures or your unknown plant for help in identification or your aquatic plant. Other threads can be added for additional examples.
http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=371709#Post371709

Example for another unknown plant:
http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=371710#Post371710

Here are some more threads about examples of how to take good pictures for getting help identifying your pond plants.
http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=26984&Number=345036#Post345036

Sometimes you need to take a garden rake and drag out some of the plant stems and leaves for a better close up picture. Placing a single good example of the plant in your hand AND in a shallow pan of water is very helpful for others to see how the plant normally appears in the water. Picture quality is obviously very important as displayed by pictures from Kelly Duffie.