Never done a water drop shot before but it was the first thing that entered my mind when I saw this challenge.
Run through ACR, duplicate layer set to multiply, masked off the drop and gaussian blurred the layer mask, layer opacity 34%, merged visible, cropped, resized, saved for web.
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