Orbs on photos

[flowerpower6]

I have taken quite a few photos with a digital camera, and some have balls of light in them, some being quite large. what actually are these orbs? are they just dust spots on lenses or something else?.....

[elcee45]

Could be lens flare, shooting into the light, or maybe rainspots cause this.

[Mr Veritas]

Could (if indoors) be reflections of flash on mirrors,or polished surfaces.

[jno]

could be the spirits of lonely souls trapped in limbo for all eternity... that what you were hoping to hear?

[chinadog]

Spirit orbs seem to show up more with digital camera's.

[flowerpower6]

all photos taken indoors, evening time, no mirrors or shiny surfaces as such...most 'orbs' are small but very visible, and one if i try to compare the size to something looks the same size as a childs small football, with patterns in it and sparks of colour around the outside. i have zoomed in on it and it kind of looks like a moon. weird.

[mibn2cweus]

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[mariner2]

I think ALL orb photos are nothing but flash-illuminated dust and I can prove it. Pictures taken with small digital cameras with the flash really close to the lens provide them all the time. I go on overnight paranormal investigations with a group and I am also a pro photographer so I tried an experiment to prove my theory last saturday night.
One of our number gets "orbs" all the time, so I set my camera to a 5 second exposure with no flash and took pictures over his shoulder while he was flashing away, using his flash for my own exposures. His were full of orbs as usual, but there was nothing in mine at all.