Varun Lakshmaiah

The man who chased the light

No.1 Golden Hour

One man.
Unlimited hobbies.

  1. Programmer! I write the code that makes ideas run.
  2. Blogger! I think out loud, in long form.
  3. Designer! I care where every pixel lands.
  4. Photographer! I collect light, one frame at a time.
  5. Traveller! And I go wherever the light does.

Inside! A race to the Ghats before sunset

A watercolour of a narrow old street at sunset, a puddle catching the light.
5:40 pm. The light finds the old street.
Varun smiling.

Laptop can wait!

A watercolour of Varun riding along a misty Western Ghats road, the sun low on the right.
6:05 pm. Into the Ghats. Mist in the valleys, sun in the trees.
A watercolour of Varun leaning his motorcycle round a hairpin past a tea stall with a blue tarp.
One more bend. The chai can wait too.
A watercolour of a rural bus stand under a banyan tree, the sun just above the fields.
6:31 pm. Sunset. He made it.

To be continued…

Next issue: the meadow, the lake, and the moon.

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