Photographer Turns Rusty Fire Hydrants Into Magnificent Planets

San 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

Old, rusty, beaten-and-bruised fire hydrants.

Adam 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

"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 — it had become a planet."