During a rather difficult shoot on a blue sky autumnal morning at the Pine islands of Assynt in Scotland with a group of other photographers I decided to eschew the grander scenic view and found myself captivated by this small scenic slice of pale skinny reeds protruding from a peaty pool backed by sunlit ginger Deer Grass covered hills. The water had a distinctly blue cast from a clear sky above, but what made it special for me was the colour transition from ginger through black to blue and those linear ripples, which incidentally are caused by a tiny cascade at the other end of the pool. Those same ripples distorted the sunlit reed reflections into spirals and then bizarrely and serendipitously it began to rain and I noticed the blue toned splash rings, a magical addition that provided me with a suitable picture title.

I hope you like it. I took lots, but this is my favourite with just the right amount of splash rings and a shutter speed choice that seemed to do the scene the most pictorial justice