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A close-up image of a US Navy Lockheed P-3 Orion, captured in August of 1980. This aircraft just happened to fly into Salem just when I happened to be there with my camera. It was there only a few minutes as one person got off the plane, and then it left. An image of the entire airplane is available in elsewhere this collection.

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...