Field guide No. 563

On a frozen shore under pink mountains, a giant steel camera iris on a concrete mount has closed its blades nearly shut over the setting sun. The evening is being taken down a stop.

Industrial iris closing over the sun

Exposure: reduced.

On a frozen shore under pink mountains, a giant steel camera iris on a concrete mount has closed its blades nearly shut over the setting sun. The evening is being taken down a stop.

Field noteCamera irises close over lenses. This one is the size of a building and stops down the sunset.

Specimen
No. 563
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Scale
Where it doesn’t exist
A frozen shore under mountains.
Nearest existing relative
A camera shutter.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Objects

Also possible, also breaking scale