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I was traveling with a couple buddies of mine back in May of 1981. We were waiting at San Francisco airport for a quick flight to Los Angeles. While we were waiting to board the PSA 727 in the foreground I took a few photos of what was passing by when this United 727 passed by. The match up of two 727s captured simultaneously from two dramatically different angles is one of those happy accidents that make a perfect photograph.

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...