Carly Moodry, 19 at the time, was critically injured in a car accident on Interstate 90. Doctors gave her grim prognosis but her family opted for surgery and defied the odds. Now, years later, Carly is thriving and sharing her remarkable journey through photography.
The driver and a passenger in the shotgun seat escaped with minor injuries. But Carly Moodry, unbelted in the middle, was ejected through the pickup’s rear window.The Anaconda native was 19 years old at the time, a student at Montana Tech and a part-time employee at Fred’s Mesquite Grill in Butte, where she had worked that night.
More than 17 years later, on a recent Thursday, Carly Moodry, 36, focused her Canon mirrorless camera on a bull moose and captured a clear image of the ungulate feeding on vegetation in Georgetown Lake west of Anaconda. The photograph shows strips of velvet beginning to detach from the moose’s antlers and water streaming from the bull’s dewlap.
Carly’s sister, Daridee, pitched the idea of photography. She believed a creative outlet for Carly could help liberate her from a dark spiral.Carly started shooting photographs with serious intent in 2021 but took steps in the preceding years to learn the craft. “It began with Carly asking me to teach her to ‘take pictures,’” Curry recalled last week. “I think it was late 2018.
“Carly quickly grasped the three variables of photography, how they interrelate and how to use them to produce depth of field or stop the wings of an osprey,” Curry said. “Carly is brilliant, and I have found that once I explain something to her, that’s it. She has it.” It seems clear that readers in southwest Montana would much rather see the mug of a moose on page one than the countenance of a politician.
In recent years, Moodry has exhibited her photos during one-woman shows and the annual Wildlife Art Expo in Anaconda. The latter will be Sept. 27–29.
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