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At airshows it can be difficult to photograph the static displays due to the crowds wandering around them. In such situations I get the best photos by focusing on details. A low angle on this WWII TBM Avenger torpedo bomber provides a dramatic composition and conveys the sense of power within this airplane. I made this photograph at the California International Airshow in Salinas in October 1995.

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...