San Carlos Cathedral Metal Print

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The San Carlos Cathedral in downtown Monterey was originally called the Royal Presidio Chapel. It was completed in 1794, and is the oldest continuously operating church in California. This image was made in August 2006, three years before it underwent a major restoration and much-needed seismic retrofitting. As part of the restoration, the gate in the foreground, which was not original (I believe it dates to the 1930s) was removed. Frankly, I think it looked better with the gate than without it.

Photo Copyright James 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...