Two Gulls Canvas Print

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Here's a photo made at Garrapata State Beach in Big Sur on December 30th 1997. The winter surf was heavy and the midday sun was fairly low in the sky. This is one of a series of shots of waves hitting these rocks, any one of which would be suitable for display. This one just happens to be my personal favorite.

I have to admit the title is a bit of a tease to make you look closer. The on-screen image barely has sufficient resolution to pick out the second gull, which is perched on the second-highest peak of the rock in the background. On a proper print, it shows up as a small dot on a tiny stick. If you can't see it, try hovering your mouse over that area and click the green box to magnify that section.

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...