Rachael Fair
Profile
I am an aspiring photographer currently studying digital imaging and english at the local community college. I hope to transfer to HSU in Humboldt County for a degree in photojournalism. I am fairy new to photography, so I am looking to learn, to become inspired, to open my mind, and to take constructive critism from other artists. I am bursting with imagination, I just need to feel the inspiration to push it forth into my photography.
I am currently using a Nikon D80, though I love my old film camera, but I don’t get to use it often anymore since I no longer have access to a darkroom. (and profressional processing is so damn expensive!) I am mostly turned on by surrealism, as well as artsy and abstract portraitures and nudes, and images of unusual elements in nature. I guess you could say I like EVERYTHING interesting!
I have had most of my experience in the darkroom working with black and white photography, however I understand that by involving myself in digital photography and CS3, I am opening my options up to a realm of infinate possibilities. I am currently working on finding my way around the photo shop program and playing around with some of my images. If you like what you see so far, stay tuned!...
Groups
Rachael Fair is a member of Australian Adult Photographic Workshops, Everyday Women, Northern California Style (4 art per day) and Photography 101.
Art
Writing
Photograph
I grip my camera’s lens / ‘round aperture set firm / And ponder the infinity / Of the world around me The dusty gleam of a North Coast sunset / Devouring the daylight / In a euphoric mesh / Of …
Peace Love Naked
I try to cover myself / with clothing / Try to hide from the world / my imperfections / Wounds and scars / inside and out Within this shell I contain myself / The outside filled with looking glasse…
My Mother's Wineglass
My mother cradles her wine glass / between spread fingers / like a mother cradling an infant / How she use to cradle me, I presume / Close to her heart within cold, stiff hands / Stumbling silently be…
Labor
The first few silent, still moments / like the gentle calm before a raging storm / Swelling up inside of me / Cradled and nestled deep in the sheets / of my oversized bed / I lay wondering…waiting 
I Met Someone
In the dimmed day glow of the dusty jukebox / Walked a man destined to choose / The sultry song of his whiskey glass / Cinnamon skin native of ancestral lands / Gleaming intrigue in green eyes so glue…
Fat
I’m reinventing my waist! / Bikini season is coming soon, girls / So’s really no time to waste / Those chunky love handles and flabby arms / Are much to any man’s distaist / And with all these b…
