I’ve actually had this as my desktop wallpaper for the last few weeks, I guess its one of the privileges of my job, I get to try out the wallpapers first!
I’ve seen shots like this many times its nothing new but it certainly is fascinating to see the different shapes made every time a drop of water hits a puddle and it really was fun shooting it too.
If your wandering how I shot it I’ll give you a brief explanation now.
Firstly I set up a large bowl of water (in my case it was actually a frying pan, but any similar sized container will do). Next I filled a plastic carrier bag with water and tied it about 2 foot directly above my bowl. I made a tiny whole in the bag to get the drips flowing, I then, with my camera on a tripod, I manually focused on the exact spot where the drips were landing and set my shutter speed to 1/250 sec which gave me an aperture of f/8. I then fired of over a hundred shots with my flash bouncing off a nearby wall.
Its a very hit and miss activity trying to judge the exact split second that the water will make the exact shape you require is near impossible with out some really high tech gear (but where’s the fun in that). A slight tweak in Adobe Lightroom with the colour temperature and contrast and this is what I ended up with.
As always just click the link below that matches your screen resolution then right click the image and click ‘Set as desktop background’ or what ever the mac equivalent is (I really really really must find out, if anyknows please let me know as I dont have acces to a Mac 
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Hi Tom,
Just checked it on my Mac and it’s the same procedure: Click on the picture link with the right size, it opens in Safari. Then right mouseclick and choose: “Use Image as Desktop Picture”.
Edwin
Cheers Edwin