About

A personal gallery of film photographs — scans kept at full quality and served from my own corner of the internet, rather than re-compressed by someone else.

Although I’ve shot many pictures on my iPhones, none of them affect me the way a single analog photo my dad took in 1988 does.

Some of my best memories from growing up involve sitting on the floor and looking at my father's old photo albums. Part of it is nostalgia, sure. But part of it is inherent to the scarcity of the medium and how it makes you stop.

I'm a software engineer (and medical doctor) and naturally I wanted to have fun architecting this software.

Silvergrain relies completely on Cloudflare infrastructure by design. Assets are hosted on R2 and served over a dedicated domain; data is saved on a D1 database. We rely on Cloudflare image transform features for resizing images on-demand.

The final bit of nerdiness is the use of OKLAB. I use an OKLAB-based clustering algorithm to find dominant colors, which results in very nice, non-muddy results.