Neath The Stars And Stripes Canvas Print

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I made this image at an outdoor concert celebrating the 49th anniversary of the incorporation of the city of Seaside California. It was the evening of October 13, 2003. I saw the crowd below the backlit flags and had to get a shot. Lacking a tripod I steadied my camera on my shoe for the exposure, which was just long enough to provide a little motion blur on the flags.

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...