The planets made of washing up liquid

• Friday, 12 September 2008
• Ella Taylor
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Photographer Jazon Tozer seems to have achieved the fantastical feat of capturing eerie, mystical landscapes of distant planets on film.

The series of shots, which feature iridescent gases swirling, clouds drifting and wavelike markings against shadowy backdrops, were actually giant bubbles with added glycerine to give the mixture a special shimmer and colour.

The pictures, although not of real planets, show apparent textures, colours and dome shapes that appear very convincing. Still they possess a strangely surreal quality that is peaceful to contemplate and wonder about what may really lie out there.

To make the bubbles Tozer used a mixture of ten parts distilled water, one part washing up liquid and varying amounts of glycerine, with more glycerine producing more vivid colours. He then looped an old coat hanger to blow the large bubbles, and blew through straws into a dish of the solution to get the dome shapes that so resemble planets. The remarkable photos were taken for Sony to test their new Alpha 350 D-SLR camera.

See the collection of photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/creativereview/sets/72157605540810101/show/