a photographer who took the heart-breaking image in november did not grasp how terrified she was until he was editing the photographs .
it was then rene schulthoff realised the girl - alone and barefoot among the metal huts - was so scared of his camera that ` she thought it was a weapon ' .
the young girl 's emergence follows the now-iconic image of four-year-old hudea who also surrendered to a camera in a syrian camp late last year .