A return to Pine Creek this last Thursday evening produced some nice light. I have hoped to capture a decent sunset panorama in the valley – a mix of color and clouds, but no luck yet. The weekends in March haven’t yielded such a situation. It was better than total gray like previous visits. The melt has been on and the water is high again.
Pine Creek meets the Mississippi River
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Panoramas from a previous trip; you can see how high the water was.
I’ve been waiting for the month of March to get here to create some Pine Creek Panos. The sun sets for the entire month over Frontenac State Park; it lines up perfectly with the valley that Pine Creek emanates from.
The first attempt at capturing an aerial sunset from this valley was cloudy unfortunately. Hopefully one weekend this March will yield some amazing color.
Pine Creek East ViewPine Creek West View360 Sphere
This is a really beautiful spot. A very picturesque valley. I am looking forward to capturing more seasons from here.
Double, double toil and trouble; water freezing, and corn syrup bubbles. Not exactly a Shakespearean moment…
I happened upon some remarkable images of bubbles, frozen and held intact. They where quite beautiful with great detail in wonderful light. <<read/see more>>
Magical Bubbles: Angela Kelly
I thought to myself, “how hard can this be.” I searched for a bubble solution recipe, acquired my supplies and readied my mix. 6 cups water to 1 cup dish soap to 1/4 cup corn syrup. I equated this to 7:1/4 or 3.5:1/8 as I had bubble solution from the store and wasn’t going to mix completely from scratch. This is where I may have went wrong right from the start. I needed bubble-blowing implements and they naturally come in the store-bought solutions. I didn’t feel any need to dump that and start from scratch. After an initial failure, I began to dabble. I steadily and generously continued to add corn syrup until the bubbles held and froze. I ended up at 3 1/2:1 1/2 ratio of bubble solution to corn syrup. The other issue I encountered was wind on the deck; that just doesn’t work. I move my operation into the garage and blew my bubble on to an old card table. The whole exercise was not a complete fail. I succeeded in making a few frozen bubble. I certainly succeeded in make a mess.
The bubbles didn’t freeze fast enough with the garage door closed. The freeze time greatly improved with the door open, but the wind popped a lot. I’ll have to give this another whirl tomorrow perhaps when it will be even colder and I may not need the garage door open. We’ll see.
I think I have the solution mix down and just need to practice in creating and placing the bubbles. Here are my prize shots of the afternoon.
