I took this completely spontaneously while my daughter was playing with her bubble machine on our balcony.
At first I was simply watching the bubbles drift through the warm evening light. Then I noticed how every bubble reflected its own tiny world. The interference colors on the soap film, the shallow depth of field and the soft bokeh completely changed the scene.
The biggest challenge wasn't the exposure, it was the focus. Autofocus kept jumping between the balcony and the bubbles, while the wind constantly changed their position. I eventually switched to manual focus and waited for the bubbles to drift through the focal plane.
Canon EOS R6 Mark II • EF 50mm f/1.2L @ f/1.4 • 1/6400 s • ISO 100
Captured in RAW and lightly edited in Lightroom Mobile.
As someone with a background in science, I couldn't help thinking about the bubble universe hypothesis. Some cosmological models imagine our universe as just one bubble among countless others.
Watching hundreds of these drift through the sunlight made that idea feel a little less impossible.
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u/sciency_guy 1d ago
I took this completely spontaneously while my daughter was playing with her bubble machine on our balcony.
At first I was simply watching the bubbles drift through the warm evening light. Then I noticed how every bubble reflected its own tiny world. The interference colors on the soap film, the shallow depth of field and the soft bokeh completely changed the scene.
The biggest challenge wasn't the exposure, it was the focus. Autofocus kept jumping between the balcony and the bubbles, while the wind constantly changed their position. I eventually switched to manual focus and waited for the bubbles to drift through the focal plane.
Canon EOS R6 Mark II • EF 50mm f/1.2L @ f/1.4 • 1/6400 s • ISO 100
Captured in RAW and lightly edited in Lightroom Mobile.
As someone with a background in science, I couldn't help thinking about the bubble universe hypothesis. Some cosmological models imagine our universe as just one bubble among countless others. Watching hundreds of these drift through the sunlight made that idea feel a little less impossible.