"Orbs"

You know about "orbs", right? If you don't, these are the strange round shapes that turn up on photographs.

Baby Jane is into them these days. There's a young environmental scientist recently come into her life who is studying them for some type of thesis. He was telling Baby Jane he thinks they're caused by the presence of radiation and, if he's right, could be a cheap way of "assaying", if that's what it called, for uranium ... so she took him "out bush" to where, according to local rumour, there's supposedly uranium deposits - won't tell you where, obviously - and they walked around photographing the site without seeing a single orb in any of the pictures ... and then, suddenly ...

Odd, huh!

I always thought these things were caused by mould inside the lens, but only the photographs taken in this immediate area produced these odd shapes. Off the area: no orbs; in this field: orbs!

What do you think? Young Environmental Scientist is onto something?