Mother Hen Canvas Print

canvas prints airplane canvas prints salem canvas prints jet canvas prints airport canvas prints airplanes canvas prints planes canvas prints plane canvas prints cessnas canvas prints grumman gulfstream canvas prints grumman canvas prints gulfstream ii canvas prints gulfstream canvas prints private jet canvas prints corporate jet canvas prints private planes canvas prints

photographs airplane photos salem photos jet photos airport photos airplanes photos planes photos plane photos cessnas photos grumman gulfstream photos grumman photos gulfstream ii photos gulfstream photos private jet photos corporate jet photos private planes photos

Add This Artwork to Your Favorites Collection

Comment

Add This Artwork to Your Favorites Collection

Comment

NOTE: The "Fine Art America" watermark will not appear on purchased products.

This Gumman Gulfstream II private jet looks like a mother hen next to a row of smaller Cessna airplanes. The sun broke through the clouds to illuminate the airplanes, leaving me with a dramatic background of Oregon rain clouds - a "photographer's sky" as an acquaintance once described it.

I made this photograph in June 1980 at McNary Field, as the airport in Salem, Oregon is known.

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...