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@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.

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varun @thesimplecrew.com · 08/01/2026

Strawberry milk that I made last week

A photo of my hand holding a glass of strawberry milk

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varun @thesimplecrew.com · 03/03/2025

A sunrise for you beautiful people

Picture of a sunrise at Elliot’s beach Chennai, with a long row of clouds obscuring the horizon

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 12/01/2025

Soo happy to finally receive this from @blaft.bsky.social! Beautiful cover and can’t wait to dig into the stories

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.

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 04/12/2024

This is kinda perfect ☺️

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.”

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varun @thesimplecrew.com · 03/12/2024

A photo of my hand holding a bun butter jam

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 30/11/2024

Hello everyone. I'm a photographer based in Chennai and it was my birthday yesterday! As a small gift I kindly ask you for a repost 😊 If you like my work please consider hiring me or referring me to your friends/family! You can see my work at thesimplecrew.com and www.instagram.com/thesimplecrew

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.

Portrait of a singer. It's a studio shot on a white backdrop. She is sitting on the floor, holding her tanpura vertically on her lap. She is leaning her head on the neck of the tanpura and her eyes are closed. She is wearing a deep blue sari with a red and gold border.

Rose petals covering the entire floor while the groom puts a “metti” (toe ring) on the groom’s toe.

Bride and groom kissing. The groom on the left is wearing a shiny red shawl and the bride is wearing a maroon/pink sari.

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 26/11/2024

A little rain

A black and white photograph of my neighbours balcony, through my window. Across the frame there are raindrops falling from top to bottom.

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 26/11/2024

Rainy crow 😊

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 21/11/2024

Kongguksu for lunch

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.

Close up photo of the slices of cucumber with gochugaru and salt.

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 18/11/2024

Four photographs from this evening

A dog, looking at the camera, with a leash tied to a scooter in the middle of a small street

Two boys in their school uniform walking down a mud path towards the beach. Photo taken from behind them.

A photo along the sea shore, divided along the middle of the picture by a drop in the sand level closer to the sea, possibly indicating coastal erosion.

A dog at the beach is sleeping on the cool sand, while man is sitting further behind on the sand reading a book.

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 18/11/2024

Lunch

A bowl of noodles in beetroot+coconut milk broth

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 17/11/2024

Lunch innit

A bowl of egg fried rice on the kitchen counter

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 16/11/2024

Aeropress + coconut milk

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.

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 15/11/2024

A soup from last week

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.

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 28/09/2024

The rumours are true I have begun reading Intermezzo

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.

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 18/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #98,062!

Bluesky's 10M announcement card. This account was user #98,062.

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varun @thesimplecrew.com · 02/08/2024

Omg congratulations to @blaft.bsky.social! Excited about this 😁

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.”

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 28/06/2024

Saw the evening light falling on this wall a few weeks back and took a photo with my phone. A few days ago I was walking by and this time had my camera with me. iPhone and Fujifilm X-T30ii with a 23mm F2 lens.

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.

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 the Fuji.

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.

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 18/11/2023

This evening

A photo of an evening sky with a formation of clouds that’s tapering upwards

A photo of a “strawberry vanilla” softy cone ice cream. It is pink/purple on the left half and white on the right half.

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varun @thesimplecrew.com · 05/11/2023

Lunch earlier today

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.

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 22/10/2023

📷 An evening in Chintadripet

A small street in Chintadripet showing kids on cycles, some walkers and a man and kid on a red scooter.

A photo looking up at a corner house painted blue and pink, against the dusk sky

A small street in Chintadripet. A man wearing an orange veshti walks in the middle of the road towards the camera.

A balcony of a house, with an outdoor unit of an air conditioner and clothes hung to dry across the width of the balcony.

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 19/10/2023

Crescent

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.

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 10/10/2023

Good morning

Photo at a cafe table, with laptop open and a cortado to the right of the laptop.

Close up gif of the cortado, the clip moves in and out towards the glass.

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 07/10/2023

4 eggs and cheddar omelette

An omelette cooking on a pan with green bits (coriander) and circularly sliced onions

An omelette cooking on a pan, now flipped and the near half of it with cheddar cheese

An omelette on a white plate, next to a fork, with browned circular onion rings, folded in half.

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 06/10/2023

Chorizo grilled cheese on sourdough

The end of some chorizo sausage

Chorizo grilled cheese sourdough sandwich on a white plate

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 05/10/2023

Worked out of Beachville this morning

Photo of a laptop and mouse on a table at Beachville Coffee Roasters, Chennai

A photo of the inside of Beachville Coffee Roasters, Chennai

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 02/10/2023

Btw I’ve been listening to PG Wodehouse audiobook narrated by Stephen Fry and it’s so good

Screenshot from the Audible app showing ‘The Jeeves Collection’ by P.G. Wodehouse audiobook, narrated by Stephen Fry

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 22/09/2023

Madras innit

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.

A display at Winners Bakery, Chennai. There are two lemon tarts and two chocolate tarts. I purchased both the lemon ones.

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 10/08/2023

A little rain

Two plastic chairs on the terrace. It’s raining and the chairs are wet.

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 27/07/2023

Come for omelette

An omelette with onions and green chilli, on a white plate, photographed from the top

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 25/07/2023

Come for omelette

An omelette in a pan on a black electric stove on a black kitchen countertop

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 20/07/2023

Come for coffee

A cup of roasted coffee beans, ready to grind

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 18/07/2023

அன்பே பிரியாணி

A plate of runs spl chicken biryani from Hotel Runs

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 15/07/2023

Good evening 📷

Some bougainvillea against a blue evening sky

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 15/07/2023

Egg fried rice lunch

Egg fried rice in a wok

Egg fried rice in a bowl

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 14/07/2023

A sunset

A view of a sunset from a terrace

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 13/07/2023

Getting re-obsessed with Pariyerum Perumal album

iPhone lock screen showing the album artwork from the movie Pariyerum Perumal

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 13/07/2023

Went to bakery

A bakery display of puffs.

A bakery display of cakes

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 13/07/2023

:(

Screenshot from Swiggy showing that the restaurant ‘pasumpon mess’ is too far to deliver to me.

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varun @thesimplecrew.com · 12/07/2023

Pan of pasta (farfalle)

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 12/07/2023

Chopped garlic

Garlic chopped longitudinally, on a white polypropylene chopping board

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 12/07/2023

A glass of coffee. The container is the Fellow Stagg double walled ‘tasting glass’.

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 12/07/2023

This smells amazing

Bag of coffee beans from Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters.
The label says:
KEREHAKLU ESTATE-WEAVER
Arabica | Whole Beans | 250g
Peach Mosambi Sugarcane

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varun @thesimplecrew.com · 12/07/2023

Cleaned the coffee grinder

Photo of me holding a coffee hand grinder, specifically the Comandante C40 Mark 3

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 11/07/2023

Okay

பார்த்தாலே பரவசம் பாடல் வரிகள் தமிழில்:

“தமிழ் நாட்டில் தண்ணீர் பஞ்சம்..
தனியாக குளித்தால் கஞ்சம்
ஒன்றாக குளித்திட வருவாயா..ஆ”

Lyrics of the Tamil song Parthale Paravasam highlighting these particular lines:

Tamil naattil thanneer panjam..
Thaniyaaga kulithaal kanjam..
Ondraaga kulithida varuvaayaa..aa

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varun @thesimplecrew.com · 08/07/2023

An Adyar evening

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 07/07/2023

A night walk

A lonely street at night, only lit by a streetlight

A lonely street at night, a streetlight revealing a canopy of trees

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 06/07/2023

Walking back home last night

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.

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 05/07/2023

Cool!

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.

varun @thesimplecrew.com · 04/07/2023

Reconnecting with my Twitter mutuals