The Thousand Hole Pairs, Part 1

Photo date: July 8, 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 pattern consisting of a large hole on the top of each orb, and a smaller hole to the right of that hole. I got more than 1000 orbs with such a pattern, appearing in almost all of 400+ consecutive photos.  The hole on the left usually had an appeariance resembling a five-sided polygon. Below are some examples, in which we also see quite a few of the wispy things I call orb veils.

A Three-Part Orb Pattern

Photo date: July 8, 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 quite a wealth of inexplicable anomalies. One of them was the three-part pattern below.  The first part is a dark feature on the left top, and the second part is a smaller feature on the right top.  The third part is a protrusion coming from out of the orb, just above the dark feature on the left.

A Complex Indentation Pattern

Photo date: July 7, 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.  We see below on each of the orbs a complex indentation on the top, one that includes a round part. Such a complex indentation appeared multiple times in almost all of hundreds of consecutive photos.

A Two-Part Orb Pattern

Photo date: July 7, 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.  We see below a very strange orb pattern consisting of a small hole on the left and a big hole on the right.

A Striped Orb

Photo date: June 25, 2020. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

Below we see a mysterious striped orb I photographed indoors.