This photograph was taken after the second plane crashed into the tower.
The plane has entered from the left hand side of the frame and struck the second tower which is located in the center of the image. At the right and behind the tower is the first tower which is already smoking. In the background is a clear, bright, day, brilliant cyan in colour.
When looking at this picture one gets a feeling of vertigo for the great height these buildings are above the photographer, and how far they protrude above nearby buildings.
Picture 001 - Plane hitting second tower was taken 90 degrees to the left of where this picture was taken.
Two fireballs can be seen. On the left is a smaller fireball on the face where the plane entered. On the side of the tower closest to the camera is a larger fireball, double the width of the tower, and extending out far to the right.
Behind this the second tower belches thick black smoke. The colour is very dark, similiar to tar. The smoke is coming from three quarters of the way up the tower, higher than the top of the fireball on the second tower.
This thick smoke engulfes all sides of the top quarter of the first tower, and continues at a very flat horizontal angle to the left of the frame, brushing the top of the second tower.
This fireball is on the left hand side of the picture, protruding from the left hand side of the second tower at the point of impact of the plane. It is below the half way mark of this picture, perhaps at the 60th floor of the 100 floor tower.
This is light grey, bulging like a head of cauliflower. In crevices between bulges a bright orange colour may be seen.
At the bottom of this bulging sphere is a thin whispy beard
of debris falling downwards.
This fireball starts at the left hand side of the second tower and extends past the right hand side of the tower the same distance again. Its cloud covers until half way across the width of the other tower.
This is a quick attempt to describe this picture as a grid of colours. Colour are quite vivid, and the shapes of the building lend itself to this sort of analysis. Each rectangle on this grid is in real life half the width of one tower wide, and maybe twenty stories tall.
This picture is bordered on the right with a clear column of blue sky which has been ommitted from the table for brevity.
| Black smoke | Black smoke | Black smoke | Black smoke | Black smoke | Black smoke | Black smoke |
| Blue sky | Blue sky | Grey building (top of second tower) | Grey building | Blue sky | Grey building belching black smoke (top of first tower) | Grey building belching smoke. A large black hole visible. |
| Blue sky | Blue sky | Bright yellow flame (larger fireball) | Bright yellow flame | Bright yellow flame | Black smoke | Grey building |
| White smoke (smaller fireball) | White smoke | Bright yellow flame | Bright yellow flame | Bright yellow flame | Black smoke | Grey building |
| Falling debris (seven columns) | ||||||
| Blue sky | Smaller dark grey building | Smaller dark grey building | Grey building | Blue sky | Grey building with a shadow cast by debris | Grey building |
| Blue sky | Smaller dark grey building | Smaller dark grey building | Grey building | Blue sky | Grey building | Grey building |
Base of picture.
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