Design

A Photographer Sees Tiny Planets in San Francisco's Rusty Fire Hydrants

Finding worlds in aging infrastructure.
Adam Kennedy

Some people see Jesus in their French toast, and some see Africa in watch machinery. Adam Kennedy, a student at San Francisco State University, sees planets in the city's 19th-century fire hydrants.

"It just revealed itself to me," he says of one of San Francisco's unusual ball-topped hydrants. "It mimicked the shape of a planet."