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