Rough Groove

Binary Silver

I have just installed my new photoblog BINARY SILVER. A Wordpress 1.5 gamma installation using a modified Manji theme. While it is not yet complete, I still have to finalize the static pages and other links, it is already viewable and commentable.

Why BINARY SILVER? In the earlier days of photography, a photosensitive compound of silver (silver salts) was used in getting the image starting with Nicéphore Niepce, then developed further by his partner Louis Daguerre. William Henry Fox Talbot then introduced the calotype process that used silver iodide. In the digital era, binaries – ones and zeros, are the components of information. In a way, BINARY SILVER just translates to digital film.