[matthew]

Here's another image from the same garden that revealed my 'bonsai river' photo. I like this one better. Again, it's a detail cropped from a larger photo.

[Toad]

This is very cool - I don't know quite what I am seeing - and I don't care - super image!

[Schellamo]

Wow, cool...how the heck did you do that?

[Rufus]

Long exposure at the side of a fountain, plant in foreground, rainbow effect is real, not faked?

Am I close?

[matthew]

You're close enough -- it's a handheld 1/10s exposure (@108mm equiv) through a fine sprinkler. The rainbow is real. The plant is behind the spray, but still in the sun; the water 'above' (really behind) the rainbow is in the shade. There's a decent amount of motion blur to the plant, but mostly it's OOF from a relatively wide f9 aperture. (This was shutter-priority at 1/10s.) I think the water still came out sharp because I was so close to it. I've said it here before, but here it is again: having a weatherproof camera is a feature of immeasurable value.

This was taken in one of those awkward half-crouches to get all of the elements to line up. This has had the usual changes -- contrast, levels, sharpness -- but otherwise is unaltered.

I may get a print of this, simply because I think it will make more sense when it's larger and three feet away.

[Irma]

I like your picture a lot, Matt. I really didn't know what I was watching when I saw it first time... but I liked it... I thought you took the picture through a window and the plant was inside as well... Now I understand and everything makes sense It will be a beautiful print

[shuttertalk]

Awesome shot! Close to genius if you ask me!