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For this month’s 10 on 10 I want to share a collection of images from our recent trip to New York City with you. I’ve shared many images from the trip on my blog and in on social media sites, but most of these will be new to you, I hope.

My youngest son turned 6 in January. He loves all things numbers, and over the last year or so that has translated into a love of big buildings: how tall they are, how many floors they have, when they were built… it’s an all-round fascination with numerical facts. He has a real love of learning and thirst for knowledge, these facts light him up! Back in October at his first parent-teacher conference his Kindergarten teacher asked if it was true that we would be taking him to the Empire State Building for his birthday. I had mentioned it to him once, a vague possibility when the thought popped into my head, but he’d clearly taken to heart and after telling all his friends there we simply had to go! (He has since told his class that we’re moving to Dubai… because of the Burj Khalifa, obviously… which FYI is NOT happening).

So off we went to (a desperately cold) NYC!

Inside the Empire State Building

The Birthday Boy posing atop the Empire State Building, a dream come true! (This is his new posing for a photo face, a rare and beautiful thing)

Empire View

Top of the Rock (big building number two)

View from the Rockefeller Center

One World Trade Center (big building number three)

Manhattan : Liberty Island

Statue of Liberty (big building number four)

Walking, So Much Walking

Restricting my share to 10 was SO hard this month but I think heart strings and artistic stings have found an adequate balance this time!

Up next in the 10 on 10 Blog Circle is the immensely talented Jessie Wixon of Jessie Wixon Photography. CLICK HERE to see her 10 images for this month.

Thanks for stopping by!

~Ceri

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

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