Frozen Soap Bubble Breaking

They had a feature on the news yesterday in which they showed us how to freeze a soap bubble. I thought it would be fun to try and get a picture of one. Yesterday was prohibitively cold, but this afternoon it got up to a balmy 10 F with minimal wind chill, so I decided to give it a try. It took several attempts, but I finally caught a bubble and kept it on the ring long enough for it to freeze before it could break. There was a little bit of a wind so that made it

challenging. It froze in only about a minute. I was hoping for a spectacular macro of the ice crystals, but it was hard to focus. I didn’t have a lot of oppurtunities for repeated shots as the wind picked up and blew it apart, and this is the result. It was very fragile. It was fascinating to watch it freeze. It would have been nice to have an assistant so that I could take pictures of it while it was freezing. A picture of the unbroken soap bubble is in the comments.

 

119 Pictures in 2019 - Theme No. 47 - Fragile

ODC Frozen

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