mobile version of jekyll site deploys with distorted images on ios - ios

I finally have my site working the way I want it except for a bug that seems to only be with ios devices. I set the css on images on this particular page to be object-fit: contain. The picture should be displayed like this:
on Android and PC
But whenever I open the website on an iphone or an ipad I get this:
IOS
This is affecting the sites animations and really just looks very choppy because of it on iphones. I'm not sure how it could be working so well on android devices and just generally but still persist like this on IOS..I tried different browsers as well no use.
What's even more interesting is that on initial load you will see the incorrect css applied on the image, but after refreshing the page it loads the image with the correct dimensions. I'll appreciate any insight I can get regarding this issue.
Feel free to check out the repository: https://github.com/physicalrobot/vikalpaWebsite
And see the bug for yourself on an iphone or ipad at www.vikalpa.xyz/projects
I tried changing the css of the images to force them all to have a width: 100% and a height: auto.
I tried changing object-fit to anything else in the browser while using web-inspector on the ipad, but still couldn't get it to change.

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