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Kayakers in a rental kayak paddle through parts of an old cannery foundation on the edge of Monterey Bay. The composition is a bit deceiving as it creates the illusion of solitude. In fact, they're just a few feet from the deck of the Monterey Plaza Hotel on Cannery Row. I shot this in June 2004 when I worked at the hotel.

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...