The skies have been dull and gray, the cold bites my nose, freezes my fingers and numbs my toes. I long for the mountains and blue skies. I am living vicariously through You Tube Videos of other lucky photographers. We finally got a little bit of snow to give the place some sparkle last weekend so I decided to give an idea a friend shared with me ages ago a try, Frozen Bubbles! I learned how to make homemade bubbles from the "Bubble Man," who visits the local library during their summer reading program. I also learned that adding a bit of table sugar to the mix makes the bubbles a little stronger on a You Tune video I watched. So after whipping up a batch I grabbed my camera and stepped out into the cold. Photographing bubbles as they freeze is a lot harder than it sounds. Translucent bubbles against the white snow had fun screwing with my auto focus, not to mention most of the bubbles popped on landing. I did catch a few in mid air but I could't see any evidence of freezing but colors and reflections caught in the bubbles were pretty cool. At least the bubbles don't float away quite as fast in the winter as they do the summer. I had to change my tactics, so I started catching the bubbles with the wand and watched them freeze! I didn't really want the wand in my pictures so I found a snowy branch to very gingerly set the bubble(s) down on and try to hide the wand. I wound up having to crop most of the wand out in post. It was about twelve degrees below freezing that day. Sometime I was able to catch the remains of a frozen bubble that had burst before the slight breeze made it vanish. After a while and some practice I did catch a few bubbles in mid air. I quickly found it addicting trying to capture the bubbles, their thin color, mixed with reflections and or various frozen shrouds glinting in the light. Well, I did say it was addicting right? Later in it the week we received a fresh coating of snow and I needed an art project for my son. We made the bubble solution and added red and blue food coloring to see how we could paint the snow. I grabbed the camera to of course. This time the bubbles behaved differently. Was it because of the food coloring or the fact it was 12 degrees warmer? I think the answer has to do with temperature as nothing was frozen quite as hard as it had been before. Anyways we had a lot of fun capturing these bubbles. The food coloring seemed to puddle inside the bubbles and did not color them, but the snow looked like red and blue glitter when the bubbles landed or popped. This time when we blew bubbles they could land on the snow without popping and in fact sometimes bounced! Here are the results! If you enjoyed this please give us like on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Naturally-Adrift-Photo-210642146365727/ and be sure to check back. Feedback is appreciated! Have a great day!
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