Santa Barbara Mission Facade Acrylic Print

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While visiting Santa Barbara in January 1998 we stopped to tour the mission. This is the only California Mission with symmetrical towers, so naturally I made an asymetrical photograph. Few of the architectural shapes are completely contained within the frame, yet each seems complete as we look at the whole. The sky had a thin overcast which provided a soft, even light without harsh shadows.

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...