Overview

When a photographer starts planning a project, you never know how long or extensive the project will be. This project is no exception, although the magnitude began to be realized once I added waterfalls to my Excel spreadsheet.

Several ideas floated past me when I sat down to ponder what long-term project I wanted to work on. Maybe photographing water unspoiled from development, but that project seemed a bit too unwieldy for now.

I had even contemplated photographing hiking trails throughout New Hampshire, but it didn’t grab my attention.

As I kept thinking of ideas, one topic kept showing up, and that was waterfalls. I kept having the same thought: What could I do that would be different from how others have approached this before? However, as I pondered how to do it differently than others, I wondered why this mattered. Why not just approach it the way I wanted to shoot waterfalls?

The next idea is to figure out what waterfalls I want to shoot. Do I try for all the waterfalls in New England? Do I photograph only the “famous” ones? In this case, I decided that shooting all New Hampshire waterfalls seemed the most logical choice. This way I had a list with a definitive end and gave the project a sense of organization.

Goals

As mentioned before, I aim to photograph all New Hampshire waterfalls. I know with 372 waterfalls in this little state, that it will take me years to finish this project.

My goal is to do small HDR (High Dynamic Range) panoramas for each of the falls. I hope to capture more of the area than just the waterfalls themselves. I have other projects being worked on that I am using this same philosophy toward.

Self-Imposed Restrictions

One thing I will not do for each of the photographs will be to give exact locations to it. Plenty of resources online and via books will give out the information. I’ll categorize them via county and provide the name of each waterfall.