Orb Crescents Above the Orb Veil

Photo date: November 6, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The photo below was taken while photographing ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling against a dark featureless background.  On the left (within a water drop) we see some of the strange things I call orb crescents. Underneath that drop is one of the equally strange objects I call an orb veil.

In this post I discussed some ideas to naturally explain these mysterious orb veils, none of which work. One hypothesis was the idea that such things are smudges on the camera lens. A photo like this disproves such an idea, as you can clearly see that the orb veil was behind the water drop at left (which was several inches from my camera lens).

Orb veils normally appear as spiky-looking closed polygons. But they sometimes appear with an almost circular shape, as we see in this photo from the same day. Both of the orb veils shown in this post had an apparent size of about five inches.