{"id":1646,"date":"2011-02-01T08:49:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T16:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/01\/frozen-soap-bubbles"},"modified":"2011-02-01T08:49:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T16:49:25","slug":"frozen-soap-bubbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/01\/frozen-soap-bubbles","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Soap Bubbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The temperature was -8\u00b0F (that&#8217;s -22\u00b0C for those of you living almost anywhere other than the USA) this morning, so it was time to brave the cold to blow some soap bubbles. <a href=\"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/11\/frozen-soap-bubble-photo\">In previous winters<\/a> I found that the critical threshold for getting bubbles to freeze in mid-air seems to be around -3 or -5\u00b0F, and it&#8217;s cloudy but bright and still today, so the conditions were excellent. Many bubbles froze before hitting the ground, and a few small ones stayed intact for a minute or two after landing. I managed to blow one about the size of a large orange which stayed airborne for maybe 30 seconds, buoyed up by the faint thermal draft coming from a window. I could see it turning from an irridescent film to grey-white ice as the subdued rays of the sun hit it when it rose above the house. Finally it drifted back down to the ground and tumbled a few times as it crumbled on the snow.<\/p>\n<p>I took a number of photos, but not of that large one, unfortunately. Capturing images of something as transient as a soap bubble isn&#8217;t easy in the first place, and thick gloves and the hazard of drips of soap solution don&#8217;t help any. This one was easily the best:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Frozen Soap Bubbles by Adam Schabtach, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/studionebula\/5408105366\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Frozen Soap Bubbles\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5013\/5408105366_e7fd2f3f58.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click it to go to my flickr page to see a larger version. If you zoom in on it a bit you can see ice crystals suspended on the bubble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The temperature was -8\u00b0F (that&#8217;s -22\u00b0C for those of you living almost anywhere other than the USA) this morning, so it was time to brave the cold to blow some soap bubbles. In previous winters I found that the critical threshold for getting bubbles to freeze in mid-air seems to be around -3 or -5\u00b0F,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/01\/frozen-soap-bubbles\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Frozen Soap Bubbles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}