Field guide No. 563
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.
Also possible, also breaking scale
Giant egg in a vending machineVending coils hold one cracked egg, its yolk spread across three shelves.
Packed villageModel villages are a hobby with a club and a newsletter. Packing one for lunch is the only novelty.
The greenhouse’s new occupantA nest the width of a greenhouse needs a bird to match. Undiscovered, not undiscoverable.
Scarlet button on the salt horizonButtons come in all sizes, but car-sized is a lot of coat. This one lies sunk in salt.
