Photography – Page 4 – Mike Andrick

House Show in Austin (2011)

Posted on June 30, 2014June 30, 2014 by andrickmike in Music, Photography

In January 2011, my friend Rebecca was visiting Austin, and invited me to a house show. Rebecca, with whom I went to grad school, is better about being a photographer than me and had brought her camera. When the bands started playing, it felt like old times, and I couldn’t help but borrow the camera and start shooting. Leg Sweeper and ELVIS (who became my favorite Austin band) played that night before the cops shows up — so it truly felt like I was 18 again. Here are some images from that night — first of Leg Sweeper, then ELVIS and lastly the cops showing up and ending the fun. (Note: A post with this same content appeared on my old West Virginia music blog.) Also, check out ELVIS’s 2011 album “Crime of the Scene.” It’s so good.

WWII Veteran (2004)

Posted on June 26, 2014June 26, 2014 by andrickmike in Photography

The United States soccer team just qualified for the next round of the World Cup. Since I’m feeling patriotic, here’s an image of a World War II veteran holding a flag at a Memorial Day service at the Florida National Cemetery. This was taken while I was working as a photographer for a small newspaper in Central Florida. One of the few highlights of working as a photojournalist in Central Florida for a year was meeting so many WWII veterans and hearing their incredible stories.

Guadalupe Peak (2013)

Posted on June 24, 2014November 18, 2020 by andrickmike in Photography

Push/Pull (2012)

Posted on June 19, 2014June 19, 2014 by andrickmike in Photography

Taking place on Saturday is the annual Push/Pull at Hyde Park Gym in Austin. Many of my good friends will be competing to outdo one another in the bench press and deadlift. I wish I could be there — it will be the first time I’ve missed the event in four years. Though I, too, was competing, here’s an image I managed to capture of Luke Goebel pulling what looks like 575 pounds. Best of luck to my friends in their attempts to lift heavy things.

Come and Take It (2013)

Posted on June 17, 2014June 17, 2014 by andrickmike in Photography

Mexico are playing Brazil in the World Cup, so I thought I’d share this photograph. I shot this image with my phone at the Austin City Limits Festival because the subject confused me. For anyone who knows anything about the origin of the “Come and Take It” flag, flying it with the flag of Mexico makes little sense — especially in Texas. Then again… irony is in.

Lucero (2004)

Posted on June 16, 2014June 16, 2014 by andrickmike in Photography

This past weekend I was in Austin for a wedding, and got to spend time with my friend (and former bandmate) Tim. It seems that any time I get in Tim’s truck, he is listening to Lucero. So this post is for him for driving me around town, buying beers and letting me crash at his house. This photograph of Lucero was taken at The Fest in Gainesville, Florida, at the now closed Common Grounds. Though the image isn’t spectacular, I just want someone to tell me what that is in the middle of the crowd staring at the camera.

West of the Pecos (2013)

Posted on June 10, 2014February 1, 2019 by andrickmike in Photography

Last September, I took a trip to West Texas, sidetracked to Carlsbad, New Mexico, and on the way home made a roadside stop at the West of the Pecos Museum in Pecos, Texas. It was a strange and interesting place. On the trip, though, I took my Nikon F100 and a few rolls of cheap film, which I cheaply had processed and put on disc at a drug store. The result was some flat, muddy, grainy image files, that seemed to represent the overall tone of the town of Pecos.

Down Goes Frazier (2008)

Posted on June 9, 2014June 9, 2014 by andrickmike in Music, Photography

On this blog, I will continue to use Mondays to post images related to music. As many of the musicians I have photographed are friends from West Virginia, I also have their music to share. Here’s a shot of my friends’ band Down Goes Frazier, who were based in Huntington in the mid-00s. If you’re a fan of the likes of Hot Water Music, Against Me or Planes Mistaken for Stars, have a listen (or download for free) their first two EPs below. Nowadays, members of DGF who aren’t a college professor are playing in the bands Rat Ship and Station(s).

Brian (2005)

Posted on June 6, 2014June 8, 2014 by andrickmike in Photography

This is my good friend Brian — a fantastic photographer and even better individual. He died of cancer on May 2, 2013. I did not know I had this image until I came across it cleaning off a hard drive just now. As soon as I saw it, I had to post it on here despite it being past five o’clock on a Friday evening. Looking at the contact sheet, I took this photo as a lighting test in the studio. Brian and I were in our first semester of graduate school at The University of Texas at Austin. It’s the only frame I shot of him. It was a difficult image to edit just now, so I barely did, and it brought tears to my eyes looking at it. I miss him.

Night Out Against Violence (2004)

Posted on June 5, 2014June 6, 2014 by andrickmike in Photography

On Wednesday I referenced the Instagram hashtag theme of “Woman Crush Wednesday.” So today I go with the “Throwback Thursday” theme. I’m embarrassed to admit that I did a terrible job archiving my image files before 2006. Most were saved as small JPEGs on discs. This photograph — along with the image I posted last week — is one of the very few that remain from my stint in Charleston in 2004. The photo was from an assignment I did on the city’s Night Out Against Violence, which took place in a downtown housing project. When I saw this boy watching from the other side of a fence, I found it unfortunately ironic that he was holding a plastic gun and also blowing a party horn. That summer I had reported on half a dozen murders in the city, so that moment has always stuck with me.