what makes a bubble?

What makes a bubble?

The secret to a good bubble is something called surface tension, an invisible bond that holds water molecules together. Water is a polar molecule, so it has plus and minus ends just like magnets that attract each other. When the water molecules align with each other they stick together, creating surface tension.

You might think that it is the surface tension of the water that holds the skin of a bubble together. Actually, the surface tension of water is too strong to make a bubble. You can try yourself to blow a bubble with plain old water, it just won't work! A good bubble solution has a detergent added to it to relax the surface tension of the water, allowing it to have more elastic, stretchy properties. Now it can act more like the skin of a balloon, stretching out nice and thin, trapping air inside of the bubble like a liquid balloon.

When thinking of how to photograph a bubble, I knew it had to capture the bubble coming out when it was being blown and the process of it floating in the sky. I would like to show a sequence of this across the page, of it being created to the moment it pops. I think this shows it in a clear and simple analysation of a bubble. However I would like this a bit more colourful, with Dylan being the model as children love blowing bubbles.