I started out before dawn to pack my view camera into Verde Canyon. I arrived deep in the canyon just as I had planned, in time for the afternoon lighting to highlight the golden foliage against the red walls of the canyon. Under the viewing cloth, I peered at the ground glass as my mule, Dusty, brayed … Well, okay, I really took the photo with a telephoto on a digital camera from a moving tourist train . . .

Verde Canyon autumn foliage