Three frames were recoverable with digital enhancement. The three frames showed in sequence a view looking down from a high vantage point across a slope of riolyte and lodgepole pine toward a river corridor below.
The light coming from the east at a shallow angle that suggested early morning. A closeup of the rock surface immediately beneath the camera showing a distinctive circular thermal stain.Buy a New Camera
The orange brown mineral deposit characteristic of sulfurbearing geothermal vent activity in the rock at what appeared to be the lip of a small depression or opening.
And a third image that Dr. Strauss on first viewing sat down her coffee and said nothing for 30 seconds.
The third image was slightly blurred, the framing offc center in a way that suggested the photographer had not composed deliberately.
And it showed against a background of riolyte and sky the edge of what appeared to be a human hand, not Daniel Voss’s hand.
