Trying To Hide

A beautiful day, perfect for reflections. Fresh crisp air really giving that autumn touch. Took so many photos in such a short period of time, and there's something wrong with all of them. what's that something you say? well it would be the filters (Yes, a bad workman blames his tools blah blah) They are really trying my patience, not just that its getting very hard to keep them clean and devoid of dust but the strange speckle effect they've developed. On both my x4 Medium and x8 Soft this speckle effect has appeared, similar in appearance as if you had fine drops of water on the lens. No idea why this has happened and I have no way of removing it, its just there, adding blobs of light areas all over the photographs. Also a strange ring, almost like a reflection of the lens appearing in some shots.

Anyway, I'm not too pleased with the quality of this shot, I keep getting a LOT of noise throughout my shots recently, also focusing from the lens has been poor. I need some new equipment. Someone buy me some.

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Canon 20D
Sigma 10-20mm
F13
6 Shot HDR blended with original exposures