Michael Flicek

Contemporary Fine Art Photography

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Fine Art Photography & the Creative Process

Category: Black and White Fine Art Photography

Street Scene

Waiting for Work                I immediately found this street scene in Wuhan, China, to be compelling, and wanted to make a photograph of it without attracting too much attention to myself in the process,...

Black and White Fine Art Photography

Environmental Portrait (?)

Melon Sellers, Shanghai, 2008                This is my second blog post on the topic of my With People project.  ...

Black and White Fine Art Photography

Introducing "With People"

Custom Ride, Florence, Italy                There are 3 genres of photography that I'm drawn to which have one thing in common, specifically, they all involve photographs "with people". One genre is street...

Black and White Fine Art Photography

Approaching Technical Perfection

A colleague, who is well known and widely respected in his field for a lifetime of accomplishments, once told me that he experienced a strong emotional response when he was in the presence of Michelangelo's David in Florence, Italy. It was, he said, the closest he had ever been to...

Black and White Fine Art Photography

On Being Mesmerized and Photography

"I came across an Egret Rookery in a park in the center of New Orleans. Large numbers of these prehistoric looking birds were nesting predominantly in a single tree along a small waterway with a running path nearby. As park goers largely came and went without so much as taking notice, I...

Black and White Fine Art Photography

Artistic Influences

A Smoke & A Text, San Francisco For me, artistic influences have as likely as not revealed themselves after the fact ... upon further reflection as it were. Since becoming serious about fine art photography I've come to appreciate street photography in the tradition of Willy Ronis...

Black and White Fine Art Photography, Creative Process, Artistic Influences

Human Experience of Beauty

Old Faithful Greets A New Day   The human experience of beauty is at once both universal and personal. The experience of beauty can vary from subtle and rather ordinary to dramatic and intense. When the experience is dramatic and intense, words like “it took...

Black and White Fine Art Photography, Creative Process, Concept of Beauty

The Unconscious & The Creative Process

(This posting first appeared on mflicekphotoblog on October 13, 2010) My sister-in-law, Melinda Camber Porter, lived the most creative life of anyone I have known.  She was a painter, poet, novelist, play-writer, & filmmaker.  As a journalist for the London...

Black and White Fine Art Photography, Creative Process

Perils of Night Photography in Cities

    (This post first appeared August 30, 2010 on mflicekphotoblog) At around 9:30 pm on an April evening in downtown Chicago I returned to my hotel from a solo night photography session with tripod and camera.  I was thirsty so...

Black and White Fine Art Photography

What Is Derivative?

This is Michael Flicek’s first ever blog posting!        (First Posted Aug. 10, 2010 on mflicekphotoblog) Wandering the streets of Manhattan this past April I came across this architectural structure which, thanks...

History of Photography, Black and White Fine Art Photography, Creative Process

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  • Environmental Portrait (?)
  • Introducing "With People"
  • Approaching Technical Perfection
  • The Inspiration of Travel
  • On Being Mesmerized and Photography
  • Artistic Influences
  • Human Experience of Beauty
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