i’m not sure that getting the original photos matters. i bet even if erikamitchell tried loading the same image that didn’t give good CV suggestions before, that it might give good CV suggestions in a different upload.
here’s an example of the suggestions that i get when uploading a completely black image (notice the bats and sea creatures and such):
i’m not sure that erikamitchell’s browser is necessarily sending the computer vision a black image to evaluate – it might be a different single color or some sort of static – but if it is a black image, then i bet if you start your test with a black image change the location and date to match whatever the location date of the problematic observations were, then the additional weighting for “expected nearby” might give you the same kinds of results that were shown in the previous images showing problems.
this was never answered directly, but it looks like the last screenshot shows enough of a centered URL box that confirms it is Firefox.