Carmel Mission Metal Print

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The Carmel Mission, formally known as Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, is one of the most significant structures in California history. It was the first of the California missions established by Father Junipero Serra in the late 18th Century, and Serra himself is buried under the altar here. Today it is a functioning Catholic church and a major tourist attraction. I made this photograph in April 1999.

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...