[Leica] Frozen Bubbles

[Don Dory]

Wonderful project,  and it gets you out of the house...

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023, 2:13 PM Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> My wife got me some bubble solution for Christmas thinking I might try
> freezing them when it got cold like I did a few years back.  Well, last
> night it got down to 9F (-13C) so I gave it a try.  Not quite cold
> enough as they were popping as they hit the ground, so I tried a few
> things and finally got a few bubbles to survive and freeze.
>
> Frozen Bubble-3138-Edit (leica-users.org)
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/w23/Frozen+Bubble-3138-Edit.jpg.html
> >
>
> Frozen Bubble-3146-Edit (leica-users.org)
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/w23/Frozen+Bubble-3146-Edit.jpg.html
> >
>
> A closer crop of the second one
>
> Frozen Bubble-3146-Edit-2 (leica-users.org)
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/w23/Frozen+Bubble-3146-Edit-2.jpg.html
> >
>
> But what caught my eye was when peeping around on the first shot I saw
> the ice crystals on the blades of grass.  Here if a very tight crop.
>
> Frozen Bubble-3138-Edit-2 (leica-users.org)
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/w23/Frozen+Bubble-3138-Edit-2.jpg.html
> >
>
> I was just using the 24-120Z lens for these.  It is suppose to get cold
> again tonight so I will have to bring out the big gun (100/APO) and try
> the ice crystals w/o having to crop much.
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> Aram
>
>
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> Aram Langhans
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> & Unemployed photographer
>
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