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NOTE: The logo watermark will not appear on purchased products. Photo copyright James B Toy.

Vibrant red wheels of a 19th Century steam locomotive are shown with large spokes and bright white trim. A reflection of the wheels is visible on a mirror below, giving the photo a symmetrical appearance. Photographed at the Sacramento Railroad Museum in September 2006.

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...