Diana's Bath on a quiet day. This waterfall has become one of the most visited places in the area because of its easy access and well-maintained gravel path, making it ideal for multi-generational visitors.
This time of year, mud-season” always gets me out chasing waterfalls. Timing can be perfect some years, just after the leaves pop out and everything is green along with snow-melting in the mountains the waterfalls look their best. On days when I’m itching to get outside and away from my desk I love getting in the car and picking a direction to explore. I usually pick with a loose idea in my head, a notion to create some photographs of something. For some reason, I gravitate to water, streams, waterfalls, lakes, swamps, whatever.
So, I’ve got some waterfall photos. Many of the more obscure and less visited ones, others not so much. I really enjoy looking for more abstract compositions mixed with a slow shutter speed and definitely go for black and white. Water and waterfalls lend themselves nicely to the contrast and simplicity of black and white images.
For the most part New Hampshire has lots of waterfalls that are close to the road. Glenn Ellis, Silver Cascade and the Flume are as close to the road as you can get. My preference is to bushwack or wander up streams or rivers and find smaller more intimate falls. If you like a good wander in the woods, grab a map and looks for some steep contour lines and thin blue lines crossing them. There you will surely find a waterfall. It may not be the biggest or the widest but most likely it will be yours to enjoy all by yourself.
I’ve started to dig through old images and have put some of these black and White photographs of waterfalls from New Hampshire in a print gallery here on my website As I dig deeper and wander more I’ll continue to add to this collection and I hope you check back often. Better yet, I hope you grab a map and go out and explore New Hampshire to find some of your very own waterfalls to photograph.
