Like Some Supernatural Stairway

Photo date: October 5, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below was taken while photographing ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling against a dark featureless background.  We see an astonishingly strange arrangement of disk-like objects that almost resembles a slanted stairway, with each of the little disks looking like steps on the stairs.

The photo was cropped from the larger photo below, which shows a rich variety of anomalous weirdness. Note the translucent "orb mushroom" near the bottom, which resembles similar-looking anomalies shown here.