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OK, all you digital photo mavens, can anyone tell me what caused the black hole near the center of this photo? Something on the lens maybe? I know it's not a shadow. This is the only time I've had this happen and was wondering what it was.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22826825@N05/2347185871/" title="Black Hole by TeddySalad, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2248/234 ... df88_b.jpg" width="1024" height="768" alt="Black Hole"></a>

Could it be a bird or a thrown cat?

Cheers, RickG

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If there is nothing on the lens now I would suspect a bug on the lens at the time of the shot.

I thought maybe a flying puffer fish, but they're almost totally unknown in that part of the world.

I've never used Photoshop. What little I've seen of it looked anything but easy.

Hope you don't mind, I took the liberty...

After a quick job in Photoshop: (it could use a lot more work, this is just a quick example)

Wow, thanks CG.

I think that either it's a hummingbird OR a ghost/spirit.

Better call ghost busters to check this out very creepy. Hey beautiful pic

I go with hummingbird! weird!

Looks like lens dirt. Was it on more than one image?

Nice job on the fix CG. Thats pretty cool that photoshop can do stuff like that.

Drink up!

It's the black smokey thing from "Lost"

Could it be a momentary tear in the space-time continuum?

Black helicoper, we see them all the time in McLean hovering silently.

Cheers, RickG