Hanging on to Autumn - IMG#9464

On a recent trip to northern Arizona this past October, I made sure to visit the north rim of the Grand Canyon. I was anticipating the incoming weather to make for some good shots out across the canyon, but I never expected it to snow so hard and be so cold this early in October. While I was a bit disappointed that the storm snowed out one whole day of my trip, I was pleased to be able to turn my camera towards my first winter scene of the season. It was snowing so hard that I was forced to shoot this from under an umbrella and still got droplets all over my lens. I slowed down the shutter as much as possible in effort to really make the snowfall show up in my picture.