Generic DC-9 Wood Print

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This "generic" DC-9 used to visit Monterey fairly often. I have no idea who it belongs to, whether a charter operator or one of the more wealthy folks of Pebble Beach.

It's lack of fancy color scheme make it a somewhat bland subject for the camera under most circumstances. On this July afternoon in 1997, however, the sun was bright and the air was clear. The two men were walking around the plane. Most of the time all I could see was their legs below the fuselage, which would have just been a distraction in a photo. But for a moment they paused and left me a composition that put the whole plane into perspective.

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...