This will score very high, I expect. However, I'm prepared to be unpopular and suggest that the employment of depth of field achieves little more here than would holding a bit of contrasting paper behind the subject. I mean the out-of-focus background has no contextual purpose. It is a technically proficient photograph, and the falling drop of course provides just the wow factor required for DPC success. It's just that I feel you've used depth of field as a drunk uses a lamp post ... for support, rather than for illumination. 6.
pretty cool, not sure about the amount of dead space on the photo, it adds nothig as there is nothing to see, i would have cropped tightly around the leaf