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Good vision to see this, Stephen, and good technique to capture this details in the drop. The light that produced the refraction has also produced a pretty contrasty background, but you get the bad with the good.

Hi Scott,

Thanks for the feedback... I am not sure what you mean by "contrasty background"? Please explain.

Stephen, I mean an image with significant extremes in light density - i.e., one with areas or patches that are both very dark and very bright, versus one that is more uniform in light density. In general, the more contrasty the background, the more distracting. Here, you have sunlit blades of grass and dark patches of shade but, as I noted previously, it's hard to get a nice sharp refraction without bright light on the drop and some shading in the bg.

Scott,

Thank you for explaining. This image was shot from the top, straight down. I think, if I had changed the angle slightly, I could have eliminated some of those darker patches in the grass and gotten more a graduated green background.

I will try it next time :)