Old Photographic Sanctuary

merry christmas everyone :)

we don't have snow here as yet, and honestly i don't want to see it this year. but then again i can't really stop the snow from falling when it's time.

i've been away. had finals, papers and procrastination to deal with. and i have been neglectful of this blog.

i forgot to mention about different things that had been happening in life in terms of photography. well i'm officially a permanent staff member of the school newspaper. mostly i work with the arts and entertainment section and wayne the editor is so cool. in novembers issue i had a small photography feature with about six of my photographs and a description of what they meant to me etc followed by a slideshow i did at one of the end of semester get-togethers for freshmen students. the feedback was nice, so many people have been supportive and encouraging. and now everyone recognizes me as the girl with the big camera walking around campus. i also had the most wonderful oppurtunity to go to the New York Times. and my God it's amazing there. one of the NY times editors works with our school paper to give us tips and all that, and she is just so amazing. i never got to meet with any photographers that day since it was pretty early for everyone to be in, but i met with photo editors and one sports photographer and it was just so so so amazing. the pictures that they have of aghanistan and the 9/11 aftermath are absolutely brilliant. i could totally imagine myself just working there. hahahaha.

last year i made this blog at around 3pm i remember on the 5th of May, 2005. my mom and i went to shore road, and i took pictures. i came back home and thought i really need to do something. i just have all these pictures, why not put them up on the internet. and so this blog came into being. everyone was/has been so supportive of it and much love to all :)

i am saying goodbye to this photoblog. it's been great here and i have loved every posting minute hahaha. if any of you want to see pictures up please visit the flickr page.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/natashajahangirbutt/

take care eveyone.
love
natasha :)

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(11/30/06)

couldn't choose between the two.

finals are in two weeks, and death is near. ugh!

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(11/23/06)

In a town that’s cold and grey
We will have a sunny day
Don’t you know that i
Belong arm in arm with you, baby…

Raindrops - Regina Spektor

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(11/22/06)

Diana (Di for short) isn't a fan of getting her pictures taken. i must scream at her.

but she be my 'look-a-likejewishlovebug' hahahaha.

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(10/15/05)

the good ol' Olmpus C-740!

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(09/26/06)

little baby wonder, for your soul that wasn't meant to be found.

Maryam Fawad
5th November 2006 - 18th November 2006.

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(11/09/06)

but i miss you most of all
my darling
when autumn leaves
start to
fall


whoever wrote autumn leaves is a genius, along with nat king cole, natalie cole and eva cassidy etc who've sung this song so so beautifully.

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(11/09/06)

central park is slowly dying. soon it'll snow over and it'll be a long wait for spring.

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(10/30/06)

i don't know but i think the woman in the second picture looks like Debra Messing, but she's not, it just looks like her. anyway, i edited the pictures to go for this specific kind of look, and God knows what it's called.

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(10/30/06)

taken at the skating rink in rockerfellar center.

okay so i delibrately went overboard here with the hues, it's almost as if the sun is setting if you notice the light on the girls face.

p.s i never could skate. heh, i never even tried.

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(10/25/06)

i loved the way the light danced around on this building. that's one thing about manhattan and it's tall buildngs, you get to see beautiful light sometimes.

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hello lovely photobloggers, regular bloggers and facebook people (yes i'm trying to accomodate everyone here, and since facebook imports from this blog....well you know the drill)

as the title of the post clearly states the dilemma of my life, it is safe to say i'm a walking zombie who couldn't know what 2+2 equals to, even if her life depended on it. oh yes life is peachy right now. for updates please check the flickr page, since i am so lazy to do all the techincal work to post pictures on this blog.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/natashajahangirbutt/

i'm suppossed to be working and here i am trying to not work. it's 1:58AM, and sleep is overrated for architecture students, which i think is sad.

no please don't ask me why i'm doing architecture.

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this is near my college campus, a cool place it is. everyday i come out of the train station and look up and see this. cool, no?

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(10/08/06)

standing on the 11th floor, looking down i pretend and think of so many things that no one will know of. when you watch the world from the inside of an architecture studio, it's cold and silent. There is a collapse of space, secretly every square inch. Original light sources come in, reflect and become foriegn in an instant. My vision is much clearer now, much more precise but details don't really matter or do they? They're like the simple math problem with unnecessary information to throw you off. The answer is still 27, not 89.

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(10/08/06)

there were these two guys protesting and it was hilarious. one guy goes "she's not condoleeza rice, she's condasleazy rice".

hahahaha.

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(10/09/06)

took this in Washington at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

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(10/08/06)

yeah so it's the white house, just a big old house that's white. but the fun part was the people protesting infront of it. hahaha.

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(10/02/06)

My dear, we're slow dancing in a burning room.
Don't you think we ought to know by now
Don't you think we should've learned somehow?

Slow Dancing In A Burning Room - John Mayer


p.s his new album is awesome. and yeah i know i couldn't get any weirder with a self potrait like that, along with the song. hehehe.

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(09/27/06)

hey, i'm bored.

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(10/02/06)

took my camera to school today, actually i've taken it to school many times before but i'm working for the school paper and they needed me (yes me *shines*) to take pictures of the AOL Time Warner building (which didn't come out so great), next to my school. hehehehe. so yeah the R train takes me home, while the N train goes over the Manhattan bridge.

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(09/27/06)

okay so these photographs could be much MUCH better. i was lazy and also, there were so many people looking at me, i got nervous. originally i went there for an architecture assignment and played more with my camera than do work. hahahaha.

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(09/25/06)

I'm tongue tied
Waiting
Hoping
And praying
Lying
Beside you
Longing
To touch you

But this feels like the end

So tired
We are
Drifting
Too far
Eyes closed
Tightly
Thinking
There might be
Some way

But this feels like the end

What went wrong
I need to know
I can feel
You're letting go
Though there is
So much to say
I'm tongue tied
Tongue tied
Waiting

I'm tongue tied
Waiting
Hoping
And praying
So near
Yet so far
Alone
Together

Still this feels like the end
Still this feels like the end
Still this feelslike the end
Feels like the end

- Aqualung.

i love aqualung, and this song in particular makes me so sad, yet i still listen to it. the healing garden body sprays are awesome.

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(07/26/06)


yes i was up at 6AM taking this picture. and i'm sort of running out of pictures to post. i need to start taking pictures again.

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(09/04/06)

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(08/10/06)

i think i'm going overboard with all the editing.

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