Point Sur Canvas Print

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This panoramic view of Point Sur was photographed from the Sea Otter Refuge View Point on Highway 1 near Hurricane Hill. Point Sur is near the upper right corner, and if you look closely you can make out the lighthouse on the right side of the rock. Near the middle of the image is the mouth of the Little Sur River.

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...