Freeze Frame

Photographer Angela Kelly enlisted her son to help her snap shots of bubbles as they formed in below-freezing temperatures:

Kelly said she used a homemade bubble solution with water, Karo syrup and dish soap that she found on the Internet. “We quickly realized that using a mostly shady area was necessary in order to get the bubbles to freeze in their entirety and conversely using a partly sunny area allowed the bubbles to only partially freeze along the bottoms up to about the mid-point of the bubble,” she said.

Using that information, Kelly and her youngest son set about with the idea that they wanted to see them in all different stages: frozen completely, half-frozen and only partially frozen.

“We were both awestruck as we watched how each bubble formed its own unique ice pattern as they froze,” she said. “My son was amazed as I blew a gentle puff of air across the top of one bubble that had completely frozen and watched intently as it broke away from the surface it was on, rolled over and showed its shattered shell.”

(Photo by Angela Kelly, Kelly Images and Photography)