Bwahhhhhhhh I know that phrase and this upload really shows the fuss. A great idiom and great image.

I'm not sure how this photo, as interesting as it is, demonstrates the idiom

Thanks for the comment.

The idea of the photo and the idiom is that the decoration on the temple tower is complicated and a confusion of colours and shapes. The temple is also a typical one from the Pallava Dynasty of southern India so fits the idiom twice. Well that was my thought process anyway. I was always told that the idiom originated as a comment on the complicated decoration on temples, but no sure that is the case.

I think a bit of a tighter crop at the sides would have enhanced this photo, although the "gold" does titillate. You have fantasticated this image well with exposure and saturation.

yes do agree with olga on this one,tighter crop would be better

"glistens"

Yes you are right - a tighter crop would have been better especially to accentuate the idiom.

The idiom comes from 'The Merchant of Venice' and it is 'glisters'. It was changed to 'glitters' very recently.

Lovely portrait, good luck

awwww thanks for commenting, warms the cockels of my heart. appreciated.