Water droplets, placed carefully with my finger on the surface of a CD-R. Pointed a desklamp sideways to it and found the right angle to get all these great colours. Shot away. Choose the best image then spend one hour deciding on the crop.
After the crop: cloned out some small imperfections, neatimage, usm, sharpen, curves, resize, neatimage (again), resize, sharpen (again), add border...
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I'm just going to have to do one of these someday. Everytime I see this I think "that's cool". Nice and colorful - clean, sharp...should do well. Best of luck to you in the challenge.