18 weeks 'til graduation.

After my first post I realised I hadn't actually given any background about me, and perhaps what this blog will entail.

I am currently a third-year student, reading Physical Geography at the University of Southampton. And today, it is exactly 18 weeks until graduation.

I have a passion for photographs, good food, real ale and music (in no particular order), and throughout the next 126 days -- and potentially beyond -- I shall be invariably blogging about these. Perhaps an overwhelming portion shall be about my photographical exploits, sharing my photographs, camera mods, and contemporary interests.

But for today, I shall just say: Watch this space (and my Twitter feed).

Oh... and listen to this guy:

Ben Howard

An Introduction, as it were.

I created my 'Blogger' account in July 2008 -- as it tells me in my profile information -- but I have never really been committed to writing posts. (Yet, somehow I have accrued seventy-something views -- perhaps some are fond of negligence.)

I have always held a certain stigma, or contempt for 'bloggers'. It has struck me as a somewhat egotistical or arrogant exercise that to show-off one's accomplishments or trivial daily tasks in the mind that someone will actually care? Perhaps this is also why I have never even followed a blog until recently -- every now and then I have had small peeks, but merely through the act of searching for something useful about some methodological activity, or musical insight.

This is not to say I haven't tried to blog. In fact I have, numerous times, I seem to lack the commitment and botheration in doing something, in this vein, on a regular basis. I have told myself for the past few years on New Year's Eve that I will start something -- whether it be taking a photograph, or writing something every day. These self-made promises have, consistently, floundered within the first fortnight.

But today is different, I will try my hardest to start -- I am Michael A. Cooper and here is my new blog; a small insight, as it were, to my life.