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At the end of Fisherman's Wharf in Monterey is a restaurant with a public walkway around the roof. The small rowboats lined up below provide great subject matter, and I have gotten some shots of them before. One sunny day in May of 1996 I found this man looking for a place to park. He went back and forth several times in an effort to dock his boat. Eventually he managed to squeeze in somewhere, I forget how. He provided a nice human element to the scene, with a dash of humor.

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...