I was looking through all the shower photos the other night and I noticed that before this pic (5:27:18):
Travis never looks in the direction of the camera in all the previous pics, and the bulk of the pics (11) are before this one, only 4 pics after it until the full face pic at 5:29:20.
The pics begin at 5:22:24, almost 5 minutes of pics until 5:27:18, then 2 minutes and 2 seconds until the full face shot.
In the last 4 pics, he always keeps his face looking in the direction of the camera, and during those is when he is made to sit down, and rather quickly considering almost 5 minutes of standing pictures (I don't call them poses because he does not seem to be posing or even aware of the camera until 5:27:18). And in the pic where he's turning and sitting (5:28:54):
his nose/lip gets hurt and blood can be seen in his camera-right nostril in 5:29:20:
Too much movement going on to see exactly how it occurs.
Couple this with the facts that:
She doesn't know anything about his floor cleaning other than having seen the furniture off the tile and the cleaner out (and does not even know it's a new cleaner as she would had she been there to see him put it together that morning).
She testified that she woke up first that day between noon and 12:30 (got up to use the bathroom, she thinks) and says Travis woke up between 12:30 and 1:00, then they had sex. She did not know T sent a text to Chris Hughes at 12:13 p.m., and would have had to have seen he was not in bed when she awoke and used the bathroom.
I am near strong belief that Travis did not know she was there before 5:27:18 p.m., that he saw at least one weapon when he saw her (which convinced him to follow her command and sit), and she began the attack within 3 minutes (5:30:30).
I don't think he ever had a real chance of talking her out of it, he didn't know until too late and she was far beyond any chance of being reasoned with.
As to where she was when taking pics 5:22:24 through 5:27:12, either poking around the closet door or hiding in the bathroom area would be my guesses, the angles vary quite a bit. In the very first pic he looks like he just woke up, in the second you can see sheet wrinkle marks on his back, so I do think he had just awoken from a nap to shower before the conference call that he needed to be ready for by 6:30. In her whole story, she never does mention knowing he had that call scheduled.