A camera setting on a stand with a high-power lens is often just a fancy telescope, but that can be a convenient first step in gathering information about events that become photo essays. The scope can spot events, but when the picture is taken, it chooses the one image that is perhaps the best, then it may pick one that still captures the others.

Do pictures represent one event? How would that be possible since there was a before and an after and things that happened simultaneously but were missed?