title	Fun With Bellows: Macro Photography, Brome, Suffolk - 13th May 2006
intro	There was an interesting article in April's issue of the Pentax User Club magazine about doing "extreme macro" photography using bellows on a digital SLR, and it didn't take long before an original Pentax set  appeared on eBay. Thus began a quest over a couple of separate days to seek out tiny things around the house and garden that would be interesting to photograph. However, "outside" was soon abandoned as the extreme close-ups and high magnifications, requiring ultra-fine focus adjustments, mean that the subject needs to be completely still - which wasn't easy on a windy day.
img_2301	The set-up: the camera on ultra-low tripod
imgp0096	A BVA glass valve
imgp0099	A detail of a PCB
imgp0103	Close-up of some quartz granite
imgp0337	Work is delayed by a passing thunderstorm
imgp0370	Tiny pine cones on the end of a pine tree
imgp0383	An indicator bulb from a Mark 2 Astra at 3.5 volts
imgp0391	The tip of a purple biro
imgp0392	A bunch of 120-ohm resistors
imgp0395	Lots of small PC screws
imgp0396	Condensation in of a bottle of mineral water
imgp0402	A close-up of the bulb filament
imgp0407	Tiny text on a CD
imgp0417	Pollen on a tiny flower's stamens
imgp0420	The stem of a bindweed
imgp0424	New leaves from a bit of sticky Bindweed
imgp0429	Bubbles in a drink
imgp0433	Bubbles in cranberry juice
imgp0438	A collection of little bubbles in cranberry juice
imgp0445	Miniature surface-mount resistors
imgp0447	Pins from a dead 1.1GHz Intel Celeron processor
imgp0458	Close-up of a special edition UK £2 coin
imgp0492	Mushroom gills
imgp0522	Ants mill around like, er, ants
imgp0548	A housefly
imgp0571	Some kind of beetle on a pane of glass
imgp0973	A tiny unopended flower
imgp0977	A sadly-dead bee
imgp0979	Close up of computer ribbon cable
imgp0981	Wiring at the base of a glass valve
imgp0990	Drops of water on a hairy leaf
imgp1005	Leaf cells
imgp1008	A dandelion seed
imgp1012	Some grass seeds