Decided to take the ol’ SLR to work yesterday. Here’s a few on the 40 minute Metra ride in the morning.




My name is Dean Santarinala, and I am a 20-something living in the Chicagoland area trying to find my place in the Universe. I have always enjoyed art and drawing, and along the way I picked up a camera and fell in love with photography.
Decided to take the ol’ SLR to work yesterday. Here’s a few on the 40 minute Metra ride in the morning.




Tonight I helped my mom babysit my nieces. I haven’t had much time to spend with my family these days, so staying at home on nights like this is nice.




I hung out with the fam yesterday to celebrate the 3rd birthday of my niece, Leila. I also got to meet my 3rd cousin on my Dad’s side, Catherine. That means that we have great-great grandparents in common. I had to look it up on this handy wikipedia cousin chart. Everybody’s family in the Philippines!




After playing unfinished bags for a few hours and hanging out last night, Dave and I headed out to the west suburbs to go to my cousin Alane’s graduation party.

Then we picked up Yoo Soo, returning from Korea, at O’Hare Airport. He was detained and customs questioned him in a room about his occupation and what he was doing in Korea. The airline also made him wear a facemask because he had a bad cold and they didn’t want people to worry about the H1N1 virus. In other words, Yoo Soo is a terrorist.

Here are some photos from the wedding of Theron and Kiera Berry on May 23, 2009.
Click any of the photos below to see ~40 more from the day.
It was a lot of fun to shoot, had some tricky lighting conditions, but overall it was a great experience and a pleasure to document the day for the awesome couple. Congrats again, Theron and Kiera!
PS. Hooray for more portfolio filler. :-)