looking for colour

Last night I was at my boyfriend's place reading a book I bought myself - Understanding Flash Photography by Bryan Peterson. There was this interesting photograph that he took & he explained how to achieve it (to a certain degree) so I was playing around with that this afternoon. I'll try again but I'll need something more colourful for the background. Hawaiian shirt? I don't have one.

In any case, this is what I have thus far:

This would be better if I had been slightly further away from the drop.

I was looking at this & it kinda looks like a bear walking. Or does it?

Photographing water drops is not the easiest thing to do. Timing is everything. Thankfully there's high speed capability on my Canon 7d.