Michael Flicek

Contemporary Fine Art Photography

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Fine Art Photography & the Creative Process

Category: Creative Process

The Inspiration of Travel

My decision to seriously pursue fine art photography gave a sense of purpose to my photography. Considering that I was compelled to make photographs, having this purpose focused my creative effort and ambition. Furthermore, at about the same time that I committed to the pursuit of fine...

Creative Process

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

Project Thinking

    When thinking about what to photograph I’ve come to think in terms of projects. In fact, ”project thinking” helped me take my photography to a new level. Project thinking has been very important to me as I worked to build a body of work. I...

Color Fine Art Photography, Creative Process

Slow Down & Spur A Creative Process

(This was first posted on mflicekphotoblog on October 28, 2010) When I first came upon the tree and palm in the photograph that accompanies this blog posting I noticed it but did not see in it much potential for creating a work of art from a photograph of the scene.  Although I...

Creative Process

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

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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