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I like to call Point Lobos "Puff the Magic Dragon" because from Carmel Point it looks just like a huge dragon lying in the water. This photo zooms in on the dragon's head, its snout even has a wart! The water flowing from its nose suggests the location of the nostrils. The lucky folks who live in this Carmel Point home get to enjoy this dramatic view every day. I made this photo on a somewhat stormy day in February 2009.

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...