A Day of Multiple Repeating Orb Patterns

Photo date: December 26, 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.  On this day I got quite a few different repeating orb patterns, each of which persisted for multiple photos.  One such pattern was the one below:

The photos below show the same pattern:

The photos below show the same pattern:

In the next we several cases of the same pattern:

In the next one, we see an additional element in the pattern, at the bottom center.

I also got the different pattern below, which later started to grow an additional feature:

Below is the same pattern:

Below is the same pattern, with an additional feature starting to appear at the bottom right:

Below is the same pattern:

Below is the same pattern:

Below is another different pattern from the same day:

The video below shows my camera viewfinder while I photographed the patterns shown above.