varun

@thesimplecrew.com

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photographer, social media elder spottedhyacinth (and formerly thesimplecrew) on the bird, thesimplecrew on the gram thesimplecrew.com to see my work.

A photo of my hand holding a glass of strawberry milk
Picture of a sunrise at Elliot’s beach Chennai, with a long row of clouds obscuring the horizon
A photo of my hand holding a copy of “The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF” by Blaft Publications. In the background out of focus is my full bookshelf.
Screenshot from a website called bluesky roast tool. It describes my bluesky profiles as: A photographer whose feed is a delightful mixtape of reflections, rants, and the unexpected joy of everyday life. “Like your favorite album, if your favorite album had a penchant for asking if you wash your legs.”
A photo of my hand holding a bun butter jam
Photograph for a fashion designer. Photograph has a model in the wearing designer teal/green designer skirt and a top. She is standing on the bank of the river Teesta, in the town of Sevoke, West Bengal. The river is visible in the background and on the other side of the river are rocks and the Mangpong Forest.
A black and white photograph of my neighbours balcony, through my window. Across the frame there are raindrops falling from top to bottom.
A crow standing on the ledge in the rain, shaking its head to get off the water.
Korean cold noodles "Kongguksu" in a white bowl on the kitchen counter. Made with tofu and milk instead of soy milk. Garnished on top are slices of cucumber with gochugaru and salt.
A dog, looking at the camera, with a leash tied to a scooter in the middle of a small street
A bowl of noodles in beetroot+coconut milk broth
A bowl of egg fried rice on the kitchen counter
A glass of coffee (made with aeropress) in coconut milk. The glass is sitting on a weighing scale, on the kitchen counter with various coffee and kitchen paraphernalia behind it.
A bowl of soup on a black kitchen counter. It’s a radish and cabbage soup with coriander giving it a green colour, made with a coconut milk base and roast potatoes and fried onions.
My hand holding up a paperback copy of Sally Rooney’s new novel ‘Intermezzo’. The cover has an illustration in the middle with ‘SALLY ROONEY’ on top of it. The illustration is an image of a man with his back turned to the reader, looking at the floor. The view of him is from between two legs/feet wearing black shoes. There’s a white chess piece (a queen?) on the bottom right. Below this illustration is the name of the book ‘INTERMEZZO’. The backdrop behind the book in the photo is my bookshelf.
Bluesky's 10M announcement card. This account was user #98,062.
Screenshot from an email saying the publisher Blaft hit their crowdfunding goal. The text: “Amazing! Our campaign has hit $10,000, so we can now do a hardcover first edition of The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF-- everyone who pledged or pledges for the $12 paperback tier or will get the hardbound copy instead (unless you prefer paperback -- we'll doublecheck before sending them out.”
This tweet shows two photos of the same spot, one shot on iPhone and another on a Fujifilm X-T30ii + 23mm F2 lens. This was shot on iPhone. A green wall ahead, across the street. The evening light falls on it through the trees, as evidenced by the shadows. There is a black square granite (or other stone) attached into the wall and garlanded, inscribed with an image of a god. There is an image of a face on top of the wall, a practice to ward off evil. A white fence along the street outside the wall and trees on both sides of the image of the god.
A photo of an evening sky with a formation of clouds that’s tapering upwards
Four slices of avocado on toast. Two with cherry tomato, green chilli, garlic and lemon and two with pineapple chilli preserve, sweet mint paste and orange.
A small street in Chintadripet showing kids on cycles, some walkers and a man and kid on a red scooter.
Photo of a crescent moon. Small in the frame but clear in shape, against a blue night sky. A balcony wall covers the bottom third of the frame, in the foreground and out of focus.
Photo at a cafe table, with laptop open and a cortado to the right of the laptop.
An omelette cooking on a pan with green bits (coriander) and circularly sliced onions
The end of some chorizo sausage
Photo of a laptop and mouse on a table at Beachville Coffee Roasters, Chennai
Screenshot from the Audible app showing ‘The Jeeves Collection’ by P.G. Wodehouse audiobook, narrated by Stephen Fry
Two hands digging into two plates of food on the table. Rice with a boiled egg, meen (fish) kuzhambu, fried fish, fried prawns and fish cutlet. At Meenavan Unavagam.
Two plastic chairs on the terrace. It’s raining and the chairs are wet.
An omelette with onions and green chilli, on a white plate, photographed from the top
An omelette in a pan on a black electric stove on a black kitchen countertop
A cup of roasted coffee beans, ready to grind
A plate of runs spl chicken biryani from Hotel Runs
Some bougainvillea against a blue evening sky
Egg fried rice in a wok
A view of a sunset from a terrace
iPhone lock screen showing the album artwork from the movie Pariyerum Perumal
A bakery display of puffs.
Screenshot from Swiggy showing that the restaurant ‘pasumpon mess’ is too far to deliver to me.
Pan of pasta (farfalle)
Garlic chopped longitudinally, on a white polypropylene chopping board
A glass of coffee. The container is the Fellow Stagg double walled ‘tasting glass’.
Bag of coffee beans from Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters. The label says: KEREHAKLU ESTATE-WEAVER Arabica | Whole Beans | 250g Peach Mosambi Sugarcane
Photo of me holding a coffee hand grinder, specifically the Comandante C40 Mark 3
பார்த்தாலே பரவசம் பாடல் வரிகள் தமிழில்: “தமிழ் நாட்டில் தண்ணீர் பஞ்சம்.. தனியாக குளித்தால் கஞ்சம் ஒன்றாக குளித்திட வருவாயா..ஆ”
A lonely street at night, only lit by a streetlight
Photograph of a car, under streetlights on an empty street in the middle of the night. The light inside the car is turned on, indicating the battery will be dead in the morning when the owner presumably notices.
Release notes for the Mastodon client ‘Ice Cubes’ announcing Bluesky support in the app. The notes are: Initial Bluesky bridge support, you can connect to Bluesky using skybridge.fly.dev as a server. Not all features are supported using this bridge yet. - Block and mute directly from the ... on posts in the timeline. - Add a setting to choose if you want to share post text + link or just link. - Better accounts row Ul in search. - Various localizations improvements.
Photograph looking out if a window, focusing on the banana tree and neighbouring building. Morning light casts it’s shadows and patterns.
Celebratory lights hung on trees outside a house. Photograph of the lights facing up against a cloudy background. Photo is out of focus making the dots of light blurry and round and soft (bokeh)
Self portrait in a car inside rear view mirror using a Fujifilm X-T30ii.
A knife, mid wash, showing patterns in dish soap foam.
A mirror self portrait (vertical) of me holding a nee camera - a silver Fujifilm X-T30ii with a Fuji 23mm F2 WR lens