Carly Star's Photography: August 2013

August 5, 2013

My Best and Favorite Photography of 2013

Unique coloring, and smoke.

School in Haiti! At Mission of Hope. Multiple classrooms in one room, each one really loud, and its actually really cool. The kids are super engaged because its very active speech-wise and its beautiful!

Ferris wheel in Daytona Beach, FL.

"Pulling on Heart String"

My favorite little boy in the world. Entoine hanging on a rail in his orphanage in Jeremie, Haiti.

My first time shooting a wedding. Details.

My first day living in Savannah, GA. Love how beautiful this giant church is.

Sunset in Haiti. Boys playing soccer!

Newly wed.

Dramatic fall.

The beautiful bride.

Sheldon has the most gorgeous eyes.

This was for a photo reference for my illustration friend, Logan. Turned out being pretty cool shots.

The Wheedler

Smoke.

Hanging out with the goats. In Jeremie, Haiti.

Under the bridge.

"Watching"

This boy was just squatting on the ground in the middle of the busy market. He didn't care, and he was watching my camera, so I squatted to his level, and snapped this. He was wearing one massive t-shirt that had many large holes in it. Take in Jeremie, Haiti.

Michael and Entoine. Poweful faces in beautiful places.

This precious little girl--taken at the local market in Jeremie, Haiti. Beautiful.

Meredith. Beautiful senior portraits.

"Strength."

You can see in this woman's expression her emotions and her character. She is beautiful. Taken in Jeremie, Haiti.

This little girl hanging out on the wall. Taken in Jeremie, Haiti.

SHOE DRIVE

This year we raised 300 pairs of shoes to take to Haiti. During the 3rd hour of individually giving the children shoes, it was my oh-so-special little Entoine's turn, and I grabbed him once I put his shoes on to go out to the step around the wall. It is the same place I took the image to the left. Its meant to be a before and after image, because for now, he has shoes.

Snake and sun. Take on my senior trip in FL.

Family.

The power character--Justin Coan.

Chapel Hill, NC. During the snow.

Frisbee on the Florida beach.

Coolness.

Goat and Boat

Essence of Photography

Photography is so much more than a snap and a print. Its about the world. About things people in certain parts of the globe never see in the other. Its about capturing things that would otherwise be forgotten. Showing and keeping sides of life that people see right over each day. It's use can be, a change of perspective. A change of life.

Sure, my photography is not very much like that because I am trapped in one area most of the time. But one day, it hopefully will be.

I try to think outside of suburbia and my school, but its all such fine lines. A perfect, sharp-edged cube that I live in.

"...Because, I want to travel. For photography, around the entire globe. That would be amazing. Undescribably, amazing. I want to see everything. See an elephant's crispy skin tinted with mud in Africa. See the children in the slums of urban India crawling all over the vivid world, of decay. Help the helpless. Snap a photo of a slowly dying animal population, that should have mankind's help. See a whale swoop out of the Artic Ocean. The northern lights! Neon naturalism. Come close to a giraffe, maybe even stand aside it's colossal legs. Experience the beauty of Europe and its excitement, and joy. See the Sistine chapel and step upon the marble plates that Michelangelo himself, once stood upon. (Partially.) Soar off a cliff into the ocean, feeling liberated, and connected to the world. Dive off of a plane and take to the air into literally anywhere, and see the quilts of the world’s face, in my view. Fall in love, with someone who shares the bond of love for this exhiliarating world. Absorb the light rays of Japan’s busiest roads. Spin around in the Grand Canyon, sucking in the fresh air, of space. Trudge through the crystal clear waters of the Caribbean’s blue seas. Visit the Taj Mahal, in India--Gorgeous. Maybe even touch the dried clay of the ancient Pyramids. See the Neuschwanstein castle. Dip my hand in the peaceful Plitvice Park and its waterfalls in Croatia. Tear up over the extensive beauty of the Wulingyuan Rocky Peaks in China. Stare at them for hours. Touch the thick bark of massive sequoias. Stroke the white walls of Greece while looking into the endless sea, that sadly isn't endless..

Not half of this will happen. But if it did..."