Through A Broken Barn Roof Acrylic Print

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In the summer of 1995 I took my camera loaded with black and white film to Garland Ranch Regional Park in Carmel Valley. I was poking around the old barn when I looked up and saw this fallen branch balanced over a hole in the roof. I love the shapes, the shadows, and the interplay of materials from the natural branch, to the man-made beam to the decaying sheet metal.

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...