For other readers, the conversation being referenced here is in this thread:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/annotating-preserved-specimens/59883/7
and is a bit misrepresented. It is clearly explained in the linked thread that observations with photos taken of organisms when held captive for documentation, but marked with the time and date of the original observation, should not be considered captive but wild on iNat as is covered explicitly in iNat’s guidelines on how to interpret captive/wild: https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000169932-what-does-captive-cultivated-mean-
That said the situation described by the OP here doesn’t involve an organism pictured obviously in captivity (rather the opposite), so it’s probably best to keep the thread focused on that situation.