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NOTE: The logo watermark will not appear on purchased products. Photo copyright James B Toy

A perspective view of railroad tracks running between two lines of freight cars under an overcast sky. In the distance, a hazy mountain silhouette can be seen beyond the rail yard. I shot this photograph from Amtrak's Coast Starlight while passing through Eugene Oregon in May 2005.

In the fall of 1959, Mr. Toy entered this world at a place called Carmel on California's Monterey Peninsula. Nine years later his family pulled up stakes for the rain-soaked city of Salem, Oregon where he never quite fit in. When he was 12, he and his mother viewed an exhibit of photographs by a Salem newspaper photographer, which inspired him to take his first photography class. During his teenage years he gradually developed his eye for composition and his skills with light and exposure. Though he did not pursue photography as a career, he has continued to document his observations of the world on small frames of film. In 1984, Mr. Toy and his wife Heidi returned to the Monterey Peninsula where his heart belonged. In 1997, on a bit of...