They All Had the Same Three-Part Motif

Photo date: November 22, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

I took the photos below while photographing only ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling in front of a black featureless background. Each of the orbs shown below is from a different photo. In each photo we see orbs that have an identical set of holes or marks at their top.

In both of the photos below, we can see multiple instances of the strange three-part pattern.