Hi Madeleine Hooper here,

I'm a First year student at BournemoutUniversity College of Arts....FdA commercial photography course. A Mature student - the oldest in the year about 40 something years old apparently, according to the sums.... although I don't quite know where the years have gone!....

This blog is to simply record my photographic highlights of the week throughout my time here and maybe beyond?......
My first highlight of course, has to be opening this blog. My 19 year old son would be so proud of me!...Lets just leave it at that!.....

Been looking at a book of portraits by Rineke Dijkstra. I love her series of Beach Portraits which are of children taken in a number of different countries, all on the shore line in their swimming costumes. It is the costumes mainly that give us the most clues to what culture the children may have come from.