I’m so excited to join a new group of talented photographers to share with you 10 images on the 10th of each month.
Over the past few months I’ve been busy sharing pictures of our new life in Massachusetts, lots of my more creative work and most recently, images with my new Lensbaby Edge 80 (you can keep up-to-date with that project HERE). But I wanted my first share with this new group to be something a little different. A lot of what I do is an experiment in-camera; this was more of an experiment outside of camera, a little bit of a science experiment!
I first saw images of frozen bubbles about a year ago. From the warmth of our AZ winter it seemed like something only photographers living in galacticly cold climates could ever do and of course that would never be me so I didn’t give it too much thought. But fast forward a year and here we are! New England has had (what I consider to be) a really cold cold snap this past week, temperatures well into the minus Fs, a wind chill of -23F and over a foot of snow on the ground. If I was going to try frozen bubbles now was surely the time!
I was just going to use my children’s bubble juice, but unfortunately it turns out bubble juice becomes completely frozen if you leave it in the garage in winter in MA! So if you’d like to try making frozen bubbles for yourself and find your bubble juice is already frozen too, here’s the recipe that worked for me:
1 cup water
2 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp dish soap / washing-up liquid
2 tbsp corn syrup
Mix it up!
I used a regular bubble wand and a wand with lots of holes to get a variety of different bubble sizes and combos. I’ve heard paper straws work well too.
Getting the bubbles to land where I wanted and not pop (remember that wind chill of -23F? It was blowing!) was far from easy! I wouldn’t mind trying again so I can focus more on the photography and less on the bubble production. I definitely recommend you giving it a go too; you don’t have to be a photographer to enjoy watching the patterns form in the ice!
Up next in the 10 on 10 Blog Circle is the immensely talented Christine Wright of Greenscapes Photography. Click Here to see her 10 images for this month.
Thanks for stopping by!
~Ceri
I am in love with these! It never gets cold enough here to do them.
Thank you! We only just moved to where it gets cold so the novelty hasn’t worn off yet!
These came out great!! I’m definitely going to have to try this next time it gets cold enough!
Thank you! I’d love to see pictures if/when you try it!
Ceri these are fantastic and I want to try this. I wonder if they will work in the freezer. I love the pattern in the second last image. Did you use the Edge 80 or a macro lens for these. Beautiful either way.
Thank you, Sharleen! Let me know if you try it in the freezer! These are with my 100mm 2.8L macro. I’m looking at macro filters and converters for LB. I am so in love with the lens but I want to get in closer SO bad!
So very cool!!!
These are so pretty and “cool”! I love how they turned out.
I always wanted to try it! If we only had a snow in Florida! 🙂 Love it!!
These are so fantastic! I’ve always wanted to try these! The patterns are so interesting!!
I am so happy you posted your recipe but sad it’s rainy and in the 50s now in NYC. I can’t wait until it’s cold again. I grew up in MA by the way – on the south shore, in Norwell. My parents live on Cape Cod full time so I spend a lot of the summer there!