An Orb With Five Stripes

 Photo date: November 2, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. Inside it are five different stripes, all of the same width.

Never So Striped, Part 2

Photo date: October 13, 2020. 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 a staggering phenomenon that persisted for many consecutive photos: orbs with many stripes. My photos showed two things I can never recall seeing before:  an alignment of the stripes in different orbs (shown in Part 1 of this post), and a weird anomaly in which streaks of orange light seemed to come out of orbs.  The first three photos show the second of these anomalies. 

Never So Striped, Part 1

 Photo date: October 13, 2020. 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 a staggering phenomenon that persisted for many consecutive photos: orbs with many stripes. My photos showed two things I can never recall seeing before:  an alignment of the stripes in different orbs, and a weird kind of "fire ray" anomaly in which streaks of orange light seemed to come out of orbs (which I will show in Part 2 of this two-part post). The first photo grid shows very clearly three examples of the first of these anomalies, with the stripes aligning in three pairs of striped orbs: