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This is a monochrome version of the full color photograph Bixby Bridge found elsewhere in this gallery. I had tried converting it to black and white, but was never satisfied with the results. One day I needed a blue tinted image to use as a background for my blog, and I tried that with a few images. Ultimately I used a different image for my blog, but I realized that the blue hue gave this photo the pop it needed to work as a monochrome image.

I made the original color image in July 2003. It is a stitched composite of three vertical frames.

Photo copyright James B Toy

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...