Garden hose, shot toward the sun. Light USM, curves, and crop. Also applied a more severe USM (40%, 80 pix, threshold 4) to make the tones pop. A little grainy, but I am very happy with the final product.
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This is my daughter's shot, her best showing so far. I have to take partial credit though, I held the hose while she said "higher," "no, lower," "a little to the left."
Here's a photograph that I think is absolutely stunning, but I can guess that you're probably getting hit a little hard in the voting because "It's a silhouette!" Am I right? hehe. Not me. The bottle is silhouetted, true, but that's not the subject. Your subject is the splash of water, which is *very* beautifully enhanced by the lighting in this, and not at all silhoutted. Composition is strong, leading you from one side of the photograph with the strong dark bottle top, to the other end through the flow of water. My two gripes with this is that it looks a little over-smoothed, and the exposure is perhaps a little high (could use less flash in the sparkling highlights). However, a beautiful photograph, a great example of backlighting, and one of the better shots (IMO) of the challenge. Congrats.
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