Hiram
@tenyearsgone58.bsky.social
“Strange but not a stranger.”
Rediscovering photography in the digital age. Leans toward black and white photography.
Rediscovering photography in the digital age. Leans toward black and white photography.
"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."
- Rabindranath Tagore
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
- Rabindranath Tagore
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
May 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."
- Rabindranath Tagore
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
- Rabindranath Tagore
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
"Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable."
- David Augsburger
Northampton, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
- David Augsburger
Northampton, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
May 15, 2025 at 2:59 AM
"Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable."
- David Augsburger
Northampton, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
- David Augsburger
Northampton, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
― Vincent Van Gogh
Northampton, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
― Vincent Van Gogh
Northampton, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
May 15, 2025 at 2:58 AM
“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
― Vincent Van Gogh
Northampton, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
― Vincent Van Gogh
Northampton, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
"When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge."
- Idries Shah
Brimfield, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
- Idries Shah
Brimfield, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
May 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
"When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge."
- Idries Shah
Brimfield, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
- Idries Shah
Brimfield, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
- Nelson Mandela
"Gather"
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
- Nelson Mandela
"Gather"
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
April 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
- Nelson Mandela
"Gather"
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
- Nelson Mandela
"Gather"
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
"Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes."
- Victor Hugo
Montague, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
- Victor Hugo
Montague, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
April 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
"Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes."
- Victor Hugo
Montague, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
- Victor Hugo
Montague, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
“She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
"Winter is dead.”
― A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young
"Daffodil Afternoon"
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
"Winter is dead.”
― A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young
"Daffodil Afternoon"
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
April 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
“She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
"Winter is dead.”
― A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young
"Daffodil Afternoon"
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
"Winter is dead.”
― A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young
"Daffodil Afternoon"
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
“Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
"Magnolia Blossom"
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
"Magnolia Blossom"
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
April 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
“Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
"Magnolia Blossom"
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
"Magnolia Blossom"
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”
- George Harrison
- George Harrison
April 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”
- George Harrison
- George Harrison
“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin
Fort River Farm
Hadley, MA
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin
Fort River Farm
Hadley, MA
April 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin
Fort River Farm
Hadley, MA
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin
Fort River Farm
Hadley, MA
"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."
- Honore de Balzac
"Spined Micrathena Spider"
Hadley, MA
- Honore de Balzac
"Spined Micrathena Spider"
Hadley, MA
April 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."
- Honore de Balzac
"Spined Micrathena Spider"
Hadley, MA
- Honore de Balzac
"Spined Micrathena Spider"
Hadley, MA
"Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything."
- Peter Marshall
Hadley, MA
- Peter Marshall
Hadley, MA
April 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything."
- Peter Marshall
Hadley, MA
- Peter Marshall
Hadley, MA
“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”
― Robert Frost
"Dwight House"
Old Deerfield, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
― Robert Frost
"Dwight House"
Old Deerfield, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
April 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”
― Robert Frost
"Dwight House"
Old Deerfield, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
― Robert Frost
"Dwight House"
Old Deerfield, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
"Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic."
- Stephen King
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
- Stephen King
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
March 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic."
- Stephen King
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
- Stephen King
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
“Truth is truth to the end of reckoning. ”
- William Shakespeare
"The Stare"
Turkey Vulture
Sunderland, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
- William Shakespeare
"The Stare"
Turkey Vulture
Sunderland, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
March 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
“Truth is truth to the end of reckoning. ”
- William Shakespeare
"The Stare"
Turkey Vulture
Sunderland, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
- William Shakespeare
"The Stare"
Turkey Vulture
Sunderland, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
"I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it."
- Charles Dickens
"Marley's Ghost"
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
- Charles Dickens
"Marley's Ghost"
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
March 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
"I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it."
- Charles Dickens
"Marley's Ghost"
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
- Charles Dickens
"Marley's Ghost"
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
"For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."
- Wendell Berry
"Green Heron"
Poor Farm Swamp
Amherst, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
#heronphotography
- Wendell Berry
"Green Heron"
Poor Farm Swamp
Amherst, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
#heronphotography
March 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
"For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."
- Wendell Berry
"Green Heron"
Poor Farm Swamp
Amherst, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
#heronphotography
- Wendell Berry
"Green Heron"
Poor Farm Swamp
Amherst, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
#heronphotography
"Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days."
- Doug Larson
"Miss Flo's"
Florence, MA
#diners
#colorphotography
- Doug Larson
"Miss Flo's"
Florence, MA
#diners
#colorphotography
March 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
"Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days."
- Doug Larson
"Miss Flo's"
Florence, MA
#diners
#colorphotography
- Doug Larson
"Miss Flo's"
Florence, MA
#diners
#colorphotography
"There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
- James Baldwin
Amherst, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
- James Baldwin
Amherst, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
March 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
"There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
- James Baldwin
Amherst, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
- James Baldwin
Amherst, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
"There are none so blind as those who will not see."
- John Heywood
"The Brewing Tempest"
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
- John Heywood
"The Brewing Tempest"
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
March 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
"There are none so blind as those who will not see."
- John Heywood
"The Brewing Tempest"
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
- John Heywood
"The Brewing Tempest"
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
“One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.”
- W.B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
Amherst, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
- W.B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
Amherst, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
March 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
“One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.”
- W.B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
Amherst, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
- W.B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
Amherst, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
“I’m breaking with old patterns and moving forward with my life.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Ammonite V"
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Ammonite V"
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
February 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
“I’m breaking with old patterns and moving forward with my life.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Ammonite V"
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Ammonite V"
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
"A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still."
- Samuel Johnson
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
- Samuel Johnson
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
February 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still."
- Samuel Johnson
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
- Samuel Johnson
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
"The kingdoms of experience
In the precious wind they rot
While paupers change possessions
Each one wishing for what the other has got
And the princess and the prince
Discuss what's real and what is not
It doesn't matter inside the Gates of Eden"
- Bob Dylan
#blackandwhitephotography
In the precious wind they rot
While paupers change possessions
Each one wishing for what the other has got
And the princess and the prince
Discuss what's real and what is not
It doesn't matter inside the Gates of Eden"
- Bob Dylan
#blackandwhitephotography
February 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"The kingdoms of experience
In the precious wind they rot
While paupers change possessions
Each one wishing for what the other has got
And the princess and the prince
Discuss what's real and what is not
It doesn't matter inside the Gates of Eden"
- Bob Dylan
#blackandwhitephotography
In the precious wind they rot
While paupers change possessions
Each one wishing for what the other has got
And the princess and the prince
Discuss what's real and what is not
It doesn't matter inside the Gates of Eden"
- Bob Dylan
#blackandwhitephotography
“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
- Albert Camus
Old Hadley Cemetery
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
#democracy
#gravestones
- Albert Camus
Old Hadley Cemetery
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
#democracy
#gravestones
February 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
- Albert Camus
Old Hadley Cemetery
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
#democracy
#gravestones
- Albert Camus
Old Hadley Cemetery
Hadley, MA
#blackandwhitephotography
#democracy
#gravestones