Field guide No. 832
Air bends steel, cobweb stays still
The fan catches more than air
A metal fan bends into a narrow wave in an old laundromat, while a cobweb stays taut beside it. The web declines to be impressed by airflow.
Field noteA fan that bends in the wind is a materials problem. The web has kept its appointment.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Upside down flamingos on the ceilingFlamingos stand on one leg anywhere gravity lets them. Here it lets them up.
Jellyfish beneath a stretched ice domeSea ice cracks when pushed. Over this jellyfish it has stretched like cling film and held.
The stratum takes flightDark birds rise from a striped canyon wall. The strata released their contents.
Split sunflowers at duskSliced sunflower heads hold their halves apart like open mouths, the gaps floating in midair at sunset.