Oakland Amtrak Station Wood Print

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I shot this from the door of our Coast Starlight sleeping car during a stop at Oakland in February 2004. The platform at the Jack London Square station was soaking from a storm which made for some great reflections on the pavement. I love the way the lines in this picture seem to lead on forever into the dark night.

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...