Name: Kym Cox
Picture title: Life Cycle of Soap Bubble Iridescence
Category: Manmade World
Nationality: British
Occupation: Artist / Photographer

Kym says:
‘This series of time-lapse photographs shows columns of equally-sized soap bubbles in a glass, cylindrical tube. Each photograph – there are 16 in total here – illustrates light interference colours and patterns responding to directional light.

Swirling patterns of colour are created because bubbles are made of a liquid that continually flows, swirls and drains quickly and in all directions. Light waves reflect and refract through the bubble walls. Variations in thickness cause variations in colour and intensity. The speed at which colours and patterns change is phenomenal. The light interference cycle only takes a few seconds to complete.

This was photographed in my studio/lab in May 2016 as part of an Art+Science collaboration with Prof. Stefan Hutzler, Leader of the Foams + Complex Systems Group, School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin.’

Technical information:
Nikon D800E
Carl Zeiss 100mm F/2 Makro Planar ZF.2
ISO 400
f/22
1⁄60sec 
Accessories: Tethered shooting – Gitzo tripod, Arca Swiss Cube, Novoflex Castel Cross Q Focus Rack and Balpro T/S bellows, Novoflex ProShift, Nikon Extension Tubes, Elinchrom Portalite.

Website: www.kymcox.com
Instagram: dont_burst_my_bubble_