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Frozen Bubbles?

by | Feb 19, 2015 | Uncategorized | 1 comment

This isn’t really poodle related, but some of you might enjoy my frozen bubble captures from this morning’s cold temps.

 

To create frozen bubbles you need temperature’s below 15 degrees.   This morning Aiden comes running into the bedroom saying “It is 9 degree’s outside, Mommy!  We have to freeze bubbles!”.  So, I dragged my rear out of my nice warm bed and proceeded to do just that.  This was the second time I have tried to capture bubbles as they freeze.  The first attempt was back in November I believe.  I had no idea what I was doing and learned so much from that experience.  I think I had a grand total of 4 decent shots.  This time I took maybe 40 photos and most of them were really good to excellent, requiring only minor cropping and very little changes to exposure, white balance, contrast, etc.    If you would like to see ‘good quality’ versions of these captures, you can view them on Flickr here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/128331816@N04   I’ve uploaded a few things I have done recently to Flickr and for those interested in photography you can see the camera settings.  I joined a local photography group on Facebook and they suggested I make a Flickr account because Facebook degrades the photos so much upon upload.  So, there ya have it.  Learn something new every day.  I’ll be utilizing the Flickr account more as I figure out all the settings and how to embed photos here.   I’ll just be adding that to my already extremely long ‘to do’ list.

After freezing outside for only a short time, I reflect on what a blessing it is to have a warm house with indoor plumbing.  We have been a touch under the weather here these past two weeks and when that happens my thankfulness for plumbing increases 10 fold.  I thought we were over it, but it seems I was mistaken.  Winter hates me, but at least I gain some pleasure through photography!

~Becky