Sunset Center Catwalk Acrylic Print

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This unusual catwalk in Carmel's Sunset Center auditorium provides a place to hang stage lighting. When viewed from the rear of the auditorium it mimics the shape of the roof arches, but from this angle at the front left corner of the auditorium, it seems to defy gravity. I shot this from my seat in August 2004 as I waited for a Bach Festival concert to begin.

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...