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"Rusty Planets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage courtesy of Adam Kennedy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage courtesy of Adam Kennedy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage courtesy of Adam Kennedy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage courtesy of Adam Kennedy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage courtesy of Adam Kennedy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage courtesy of Adam Kennedy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage courtesy of Adam Kennedy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage courtesy of Adam Kennedy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage courtesy of Adam Kennedy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage courtesy of Adam Kennedy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage courtesy of Adam Kennedy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage courtesy of Adam Kennedy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSan Francisco is a city flush with history. Among its steep hills and Victorian-style row houses is something often overlooked for its historic value: fire hydrants. \nOld, rusty, beaten-and-bruised fire hydrants.   \nAdam Kennedy, a cinema student at San Francisco State University, has a particular interest in the aging water plugs. For the past year, he's photographed the tops of different hydrants throughout the city and converted them, via Photoshop, into planets. The results, as you can see in the gallery above, are pretty incredible. \n\"About a year ago, I grabbed a picture of the top of a rusty fire hydrant ... I didn't think much of it beyond the intriguing formations in the chipping and worn off paint,\" he told Mashable. \"I put it into Photoshop and started toying with the image. Upon isolating the spherical metal knob something hit me: by removing the orb from its context I had also changed its content \u2014 it had become a planet.\"\nSEE ALSO: Girlfriend Leads Man Around the World in Breathtaking Pics\n\nThe objects' surfaces \u2014 chipped, jagged and imperfect\u2014 became landscapes lush with oceans and forests. Some ended up resembling Earth, others took the shapes of more mysterious worlds not yet discovered. \nKennedy said he takes on each project one step at a time with no direct plan for the outcome. \n\"I cannot approach it from the mindset that I am going to try to make a certain design work or force a particular climate \u2014 I have to let the process guide itself,\" he said.  \"Some planets are covered in snow, others mostly forested with mountainous regions. I must let the geography of the orb tell me a story as I color the imaginary landscape and pour life into a dead world.\"\nFor now, he said, he plans to keep exploring the city for elusive hydrants \u2014 hopefully with stories waiting to be told. \n\"[It's] not only to get people to think about what's out there in the universe, but what's down here on Earth that we've been missing out on all along.\"\nAre there any other cool photo projects you've seen? Share them with us below. \n(Pro tip: Click \"Show as List\" in the gallery to get a better look at Kennedy's work.)\nImages courtesy of Adam Kennedy"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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