Heath Pond Bog in Ossipee, NH is a National Natural Area visible from Route 25. We’ve passed it many times and admired it’s subtle beauty, but never stopped. Last week we happened by as the sun was in it’s final 30 minutes and the place was lit up beautifully. The earlier part of our trip in NH was a bust photography-wise, so the chance that there might be something worth shooting in there was too good to pass up.
Except that I couldn’t find a good photograph… I’m sure one was in there, but everything that seemed like a potential image just didn’t translate in the viewfinder. That is, until the sun went down. During that other “magic hour”, after the sun sets, the bog transformed itself for the camera. The colors saturated as the shadows began to fill in. How intense would they be if it was raining! (I must try again on a misty evening!)
It’s a difficult spot to photograph well, and I don’t pretend that my images above really capture the bog’s beauty properly - but I’ll definitely will make it a regular stop on our travels to find some images that really work. Poking around the edges for just an hour simply won’t cut it (well, not for me).