Images such as this and videos are giving a coroner's jury a picture of the last hours of Princess Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed - hours filled with shopping for a ring, vainly seeking privacy and finally dying as they fled pursuing paparazzi.
Inquest jurors on Wednesday saw security camera videos of the couple arriving at the Ritz Hotel on August 30, 1997; Fayed leaving for a short car ride across the Place Vendome to Repossi jewelers, returning shortly with a brochure; Ritz executive Claude Roulet returning with what was described as a bag of rings from Repossi's "dis moi oui" (tell me yes) line.
Whether Diana and Fayed planned to announce their engagement the next day is one of the questions before the jury, as is the claim that she was pregnant with Fayed's child.
Both claims are part of Mohamed al Fayed's insistence that the couple were the victims of an Establishment plot directed by Prince Philip, the queen's husband.
Shots of two people standing in an elevator may tell you nothing about how they came to die in a car crash hours later, but the images of photographers swarming around their car during the day help explain the apparently hasty change of plans, which led them to flee from the rear entrance of the hotel shortly after midnight.