hmm, what is this in my picture?

It's definitely lens flare.

e r y k wrote in post #3772366
it out every few weeks to make sure its clean.

i should invest in a wet cleaning kit soon though.

You can blast a sensor with air until the earth collides with the sun, but if there is a spec on it that was even remotely moist when it landed on the sensor, you'll never remove it. You definitely need sensor swabs and cleaning solution.

The thing on the right looks like a cloud.

It is the sky isn't it?

e r y k wrote in post #3772098
and no they are not orbs. its not funny :P. i know its lens flare, but i dont know what the top right is.

Even that's flare - not necessarily off a front element or even from light on the way into the camera, but from some light rays actually exiting the camera.

Light bouncing off a particle on your lens causing an aberration? Sensor dust? UFO's? Maybe your "other" personality put those there during post processing? Left or Right hand? Hell, I don't know...just don't send it into Canon....might come back with salt water spots though! Sorry I'm not very helpful...

Chazs wrote in post #3772402
Upper right looks like a thumbprint. Remember ONLY TOUCH THE EDGES OF THE MEMORY CARD. Sheesh.

Don't think that's the problem. Due to the way images are stored in the memory card, a fingerprint on the surface will affect images that are multiples of 100. That is, #100, 200, 300 etc, or #126, 226, 326, in a similar pattern.

Still, it could be a CF card fingerprint problem and the fingerprint on the multiple images might not have been noticed by the OP.

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Lens flare without a doubt. Flare can appear in various 'shapes', as you've shown in the upper right. I've gotten some spooky looking long exposures before of a church with some 'odd looking things' hoovering around the steeple. Turned out to be flare caused from one of the back lights of a stained glass display below the steeple, where a very small beam of light was shining through a small, clear piece of glass in the stain window... but was fun considering other possibilities for the moment!