Looks like someone dumped a truck load of glitter in a swimming pool :)

Is this another competition>?? lol - ;)

I can't decide - but I don't think I'd swim in it - looks like alien jellyfish.

Looks like sand flats at low tide to me, with some manipulation. If not then I really don't know.

There is no manipulation done to the image. This is the original.

Seafoam on the ocean at sunset? *as I rack my brain furiously*

Interesting pic.... when i first glanced at it.. i thought it was lots of fish.. lol... but now i have no idea what it is..... well you have everyone trying to figure it out.... lol.... what is it?

..... Jacqueline

It is interesting, different, but i wouldn't guess what that is. Nice image.

The best description I can think for it is a globs of oil with glitter inside and it's globing up on top of the water....

Is it a copper sheet treated with ammonia?

So, come on then, what is it???!! I demand an answer!!

Nope, not even close yet.. though some pretty interesting guesses.

Sam, do you think I am going to give it away that easily? I am still waiting for an good guess at my image Narcissistic Love

Well, well any clues? Looks like a glass plate with glitter glue on it with alight shining through it from below. I know that's not right but may help;-)

Darryl, you are close enough, it is a macro of the side of a glass vase with a light shining through it from behind. The gold is part of the glass. The dark blue along the right side is the bottom of the vase. I bought the vase a few years ago, it was so beautiful I had to have it. I have a fondness for hand-blown glass bottles and stuff.
Good guess! Now get cracking on Narcissistic Love. LOL! :c)

That would make a nice still photo if the whole vase was visible and a blackened background. I like Mary guess on that image. Thanks for giving me that one Tom;-)

Mary only has part of the answer to that other image. There is a little more to it then the myth.

"Mysterious Material" does make a pretty cool desktop wallpaper though.

It's neat, I can't lie. Who knows what it is. Sand on the walls of an aquarium, I say. Good work!

very cool I would have guessed some squid or such in the ocean, stumped me.....The vase must be very beautiful.

Amoeba on pyrite? - No, of course not.
Well, that must be a beautiful vase, indeed.
Excellent macro.

it's wax and sand on a surfboard

this looks so cool, nice image.

I love the shimmery glow just beneath the surface!! Very beautiful!!
cecefleur

actually, the "gold" is minute flakes of copper suspended in the liquid glass before being manipulated into form and cooled. the copper-flecked glass material is known to glassmakers/collectors as Aventurine (not to be confused with the real thing). a very striking photo and a nice capture of this wonderful technique.

it looks as if the jellyfish are takeing over cool i like it.

It looks like old cinnamon rolls thrown into the water by a bakery to me.

I thought it looked like rice crispies in a bowl of blue water- shows how much I know :)

This look exactly like a Murano glass ring I bought in Venice. Sadly, it fell off my finger and broke :(

i know what it is but this is a family site.