You got wintertime? Well lucky you - look at this!
- Thread starter wud
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I never heard of it either, but here's a link to one in Russia Hark.
Russia: Throwing boiling water into -41 degrees Celsius weather. [VIDEO]
Well that sure got my attention! Thanks for posting it...guess I'll head over to YouTube and look around!
When it gets to around -40 or below all the moisture in the air gets frozen so we get ice fog. We've had that the past couple weeks here. If the ice fog lifts in the afternoon we often get ''sun dogs'' which are interesting too. I'll see if I have time tomorrow to go outside for a few minutes to take a few shoots. Only a few minutes though because at these temperatures frostbite only takes about 5 minutes!
That russian one is kind of extreme but there are tons of utube videos of crazy canadians flinging hot water from coffee cups etc. It really does work, I think around -25C and colder works best. Also find lots of videos of shack happy freezing canadians blowing bubbles Crazy things to do in the freezing cold LOL
Crazy things to do in the freezing cold LOLThat russian one is kind of extreme but there are tons of utube videos of crazy canadians flinging hot water from coffee cups etc. It really does work, I think around -25C and colder works best. Also find lots of videos of shack happy freezing canadians blowing bubbles
You gotta hand it to the Canadians, they find interesting ways to fill the cold winter days.
BackdoorArts
Senior Member
Tried this just before sunrise today as it was -2F when I got up. I decided to blow bubbles from my home office window on the 2nd floor figuring it would give them more time to freeze. Sure enough they froze before they hit the deck below. Unfortunately, the regular bubbles I used from the dollar store sort of just collapsed on themselves and didn't look all that great. I suspect the water content isn't high enough. They just sort of sat there and crumpled up and died.
But I wasn't about to waste the cold, so I took some dish soap and mixed it with water and tried again. This time they seemed sturdier - I could actually hear them hit the snow as they landed, which was very surreal. Unfortunately, blowing them from the window meant that I was at the mercy of drafts to land them where they wanted, and everything raced towards the house since it was warmed and there was no way of getting a good shot.
So, not to be deterred, I donned my warm coat and gloves, grabbed my cameras and bubbles and went out in the cold, just before the sun cleared the horizon. The problem now was that when I blew the bubbles they didn't have enough time to sufficiently freeze before hitting the ground. So, I would try and catch them with the wand and then place them. This worked, and you could see the bubble freeze on the wand. Unfortunately, you couldn't preserve the whole bubble while placing it without it bursting.
Thankfully, that made for some interesting pictures.
More to come...
But I wasn't about to waste the cold, so I took some dish soap and mixed it with water and tried again. This time they seemed sturdier - I could actually hear them hit the snow as they landed, which was very surreal. Unfortunately, blowing them from the window meant that I was at the mercy of drafts to land them where they wanted, and everything raced towards the house since it was warmed and there was no way of getting a good shot.
So, not to be deterred, I donned my warm coat and gloves, grabbed my cameras and bubbles and went out in the cold, just before the sun cleared the horizon. The problem now was that when I blew the bubbles they didn't have enough time to sufficiently freeze before hitting the ground. So, I would try and catch them with the wand and then place them. This worked, and you could see the bubble freeze on the wand. Unfortunately, you couldn't preserve the whole bubble while placing it without it bursting.
Thankfully, that made for some interesting pictures.
More to come...
BackdoorArts
Senior Member
Here's another view of the same bubble.
Over-cooked the highlights a touch on the original exposure.
Over-cooked the highlights a touch on the original exposure.
BackdoorArts
Senior Member
One more. This one is also under my 365 thread, but it came out better than the others so I wanted to include it here. Edit information is included in the 365 post.
I'm so glad @wud posted this.
I'm so glad @wud posted this.
RockyNH_RIP
Senior Member
Nice bubble shots Jake... have not had a chance to try yet... You did good... assuming you moved them to photo them, how did you manage that??
Pat in NH
Pat in NH