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"This is a photo I took with my digital camera (Olympus D-490). This was taken on our family Christmas vacation in December of 2001. It's at a tourist spot called Rawhide Old West Town. We went there for dinner and watched the show for a while. The time was probably about 6:30 or 7:00 p.m. This is Annie Oakley getting ready to shoot her gun and light up the star on the Christmas tree. I took this picture first and the image caught my eye as it showed up on my viewer after I took it. I thought I must have a dirty lens or something. I took a second picture without the flash, and there are no spots in that picture. I took a third picture with the flash, and there are about 1/2 as many spots in that picture. When we went inside the steakhouse, I checked my camera and the lens was fine. My sister had her digital camera with her and she said the same thing happened to her -- she took a picture outside with the flash and had lots of spots. We both took pictures inside and they came out normal with no spots (just one or two here or there). The weather was dry (it's Scottsdale, after all!), so it's not light reflecting off of humidity. The ground below us was dirt, so you might think that it's the flash reflecting off the dirt particles, but I just don't think the dirt particles would reflect enough to give this effect. There were some Christmas lights strung about, but nothing I can think of that would reflect like this." Editor's note: it could be dust particles, they do reflect like that. It's still an interesting picture.