Colton Hall at Night Acrylic Print

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Colton Hall in downtown Monterey is part of the civic center, and sits next door to city hall. It is one of the most significant historic structures in California, as it is the place where the state constitution was first drafted, debated, and ratified in 1849. In a sense, it was California's first capitol building. I made this image in May 2003.

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...