> Many good suggestions of things to check. > Lea, I've just looked at the pictures on your web site. On my computer, it seems that both pictures are slightly darker on the right side of the mark. If this is not an artifact of the scans, then I suggest it is a shutter speed problem with the fill flash. I am not familiar with how your Canon Eos and flash talk to each other or any other controls, but it could be that the shutter speed was too fast to allow the shutter to be completely open when the flash fired. If it was the shutter, then the two areas to look are mechanical/electrical problems or (much more likely) "pilot error." If it is the latter, just don't let that pilot use your camera <grin>. Nathan Prichard