flare

After my teenage son woke me up to drive him somewhere haveng missed the tram (!) I decided to enjoy the early start and try to capture the beautiful sunrise. Hope you like them. This has a slightly tilted horizon but I like the mood. Autumn sunrise by Roger Wade, on Flickr The flare here...

I have attached an image showing 3 different types of unwanted "artifacts". It appears I have dust or fibers on my sensor because the squiggles (and maybe the dots) are there on two photos with different lenses (right?). Last year I tried to photograph a rare transit of the planet Mercury but...