Window
by shz
I found this picture while I was digging for old photography works, tucked somewhere in unnamed folder.
It is a picture of a window of my old room in Oxford. My very, very first room. I got a good stare at this picture. It pretty much sums up my life at that time. There’s this pot of flowers that I put in a larger vase filled with water. You can see how busy I was that I didn’t have time to change it, it got really green and yellow. That vase was something I got for 50p when I was doing part time at M&S’ furniture department. Actually I got a lot of things for 50p whilst working there. It was a blast, although most of the times it was mixed with feeling like a loser who hadn’t finished her study and ended up taking people’s orders on a three-seater.
Then there’s this heater. I had to buy like 3 heaters to finally find that one that actually didn’t make me die frozen in my room. I had the coldest room, because it was the only room with 3 of its walls exposed to the outside. I loved that heater. I remember letting it go to a friend when I came back here. I hope it still serve them good.
There’s some reading books and I can see orange one at the end was Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist. I still haven’t finished that yet if you can believe it. Am a slow reader.
It was so weird to see the TV antenna by the window. I can’t seem to remember where my TV was in the room.
There’s a pile of drawings there too. Some busy struggling architecture student’s life.
And finally, that camera. Something I used a lot. Something that really defined me at that time.
those kinds of windows with interior ledge (i’m an engineer, i’m sorry!) are the best. i find them very telling.
this entry is so lovely
sara,
it’s touching…nice shot..
Shaliza, I was on of your avid followers during your Fotopages days :).
I’m glad you switched to blogging now because well, you blog as good as you capture your photos! 🙂
And I so love the picture above. I don’t know how exactly to say it but it feels, hmmppp. It feels like ‘life’. Oh well.
Thank you. Love your blog as well. I didn’t switch, had always had a blog, but kept jumping from one platform to the other. 😉
paulo coelho eh? once you start and finish one, you will be in awe and forever thankful to him. you are a brilliant story teller, an amazing photographer and i’m sure you are one hell of an architect and i see you becoming someone in the future. (macamla aku kenal dia so enough of the bodek!)been an avid follower of your blog since the ones decommisioned and am really glad you are starting all over again. take care of daisy and hubby, but most of all take care of you first. i remembered seeing your photo in summer, you in flip flops, nonchalantly free in your so called single but attached life. seriously that photo of your foot (no, i do not have fetishes of this sort) and white wild flowers just metaphisically/literall brought me back to UK. I can even smell the air in UK just by looking at that photo. since then, i consider myself your humble groupie. lol. btw, u should read by the river piedra i sat down and wept. this, i tell you, i could’nt stop weeping (snots and all) each time i turned its pages.
cheers
Azhar. Thank you so much for your comment. Its one of these like yours really made my day and inspire me to write more, if not to photograph more. When you said it like that, I miss UK and whatever I used to do there.
shaliza may i know what kind of camera you use and what lense? did you edit your pictures?
Hi. I really don’t remember which lens this one was, but probably one of the primes. 50mm or 35mm. And I didn’t edit this one at all.