This week we are taking a look at Bluebells, how to photograph them and where you can find them.

• The article where to photograph Bluebells, takes a look at the locations, how to find them, how to photograph them and even some of the mythology surrounding them.

• The Bluebells location list, lists a large number of well known bluebell woods throughout the UK, and in each case provides a link to a website that tells you more on the locations.

• We have looked recently at white balance and colour management and at the end of the article on how to photograph bluebells you will find links to these articles.

We are approaching the time of the year when more is on, and hopefully the weather will be good enough for us to go out and take more photographs.

Added this week you will find the Photographers Diary page for May, with so much to select from you won't know which to choose. We have also updated the major items forward listing.

The other major topics we are looking at this week are partly linked, getting your photographs into magazines, and copyright. We have 4 articles covering this area:-

• Getting Photos in Magazines,  With over 8,000 magazines all looking for articles and photographs in the UK alone, you can see there are going to be many opportunities. We take a fairly detailed look at getting your work published.

• Creating illustrated articles, the advantage of providing text as well as photos or working with others that do. This has been, in the past, the way we have had many hundreds of pages or our material, articles and photographs, published in UK magazines.

• Rights in relation to magazines - When you grant rights for a magazine to use either your photos or articles, what is it that you are granting, what types of rights are there and what do they each mean. Do you for example know that you can sell the same article a number of times.

• Copyright and Photographers in this article we look at copyright in relation to photographs, and and give you a good background in the subject, without getting too complicated.

We also have a page on another of our models, Luke. We use models as you may be aware to give photographers attending training course the opportunity to gain some experience of portraiture, or operating flash studio of Nikon creative lighting. Some also like to add extra sessions to build portfolios, particularly if they are looking at gaining an income from portraiture.

Locations Featured This Week

Bardsey Island, North Wales - An island which lies just two miles beyond the tip of the Llyn peninsula in North Wales, it is 1.5 miles long and just over half a mile wide. It is a Nature Reserve and day trip access to the island is via boat from either Porth Meudwy, or sometimes Pwllheli. There are also holiday cottages on the island for those who want to have a longer visit.

Bedd-yr-Afanc Burial Chamber, Brynberian, Pembrokeshire. On open moorland south-east of Brynberian, a hamlet on the B4329 Haverfordwest-Cardigan road.

Bishops Wood Reserve, Caswell Bay, South Wales. A limestone woodland which is a Nature Reserve located above Caswell Bay on the Gower Peninsula.

Micheldever Woods, Hampshire. A beech woodland in the Hampshire countryside situated 5 miles northeast of Winchester, next to a very noisy M3, which runs through part of it. Beech woods are very good for Bluebells and during April and May each year, this wood is carpeted in blue. There are also some ancient bronze age remains which can be accessed via a waymarked path.

Nikon Updates

Nikon D300 Firmware Update. The latest firmware update for the D300 is available. It resolves an issue where in rare cases, images taken at shutter speeds of less than 8 seconds would sometimes show signs of vertical banding. The D300 has two firmware sets, and this only relates to set A version 1.02 only. Go to the Customer Services area of the Nikon website, and on Firmware Updates to find out more.

Also updates for Capture NX and Capture Control Pro are available, amongst other things support for the D60 has been included. Nikons Customer Services area of their website and then Software Downloads will give you more information.