Then, a menu she had never seen before: “Service Diagnostics > Frame Reconstruction.”

She didn’t delete it.

The problem: Canon had long since pulled the download from its official site.

She’d found a mention of it on a Russian photography forum, translated by Google into broken English: “Utility 2 can talk to the camera’s service sector. Not for normal use. But for rescue, yes.”

She’d driven four hundred miles to capture the annual moose migration. For three days, she’d woken at 4 a.m., brewed bitter coffee from a thermos, and waited. The light had been perfect. The mist had risen from the bog like breath. And on the second morning, a bull moose with antlers like a fallen king had stepped into her frame.