Archive for the ‘Soap Pictures’ Category

Colored and Swirled Soap

Monday, April 20th, 2009
Winter Spruce Soap - www.thesoapsmith.biz

Winter Spruce Soap - www.thesoapsmith.biz

Making cold process soap is a combination of art and science.

Making swirled soap is particularly tricky. It’s quite a skill to get the colors to swirl in together and still keep them distinct. Every swirled bar is different - not only different from soapmaker to soapmaker, but different from batch to batch and every bar within a batch will be unique.

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Soap Bubble Close-Up

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Ever wondered what a soap bubble looks like close up … VERY close up … like 50x magnification?   Absolutely, amazingly beautiful!

Soap Bubble in a Petri Dish, taken at 50x magnification <br> Photographer: Viktor Sykora

Soap Bubble in a Petri Dish, taken at 50x magnification
Photographer: Viktor Sykora

Mr. Sykora won Image of Distinction in the 2008  annual Nikon Small World photomicrography competition.  And rightly so!