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.
Took a trip downtown with the DIP crew again, this time Jeremy and Josh came along too, but I missed them because I missed my train and didn’t arrive till later in the afternoon. And I don’t blame them for leaving early — it was pretty cold, wet, and miserable downtown, so I left after a few hours as well.
No hood internet this time. Tripods are awesome.
Thursday Afternoon: Part 7 of a 13-part series of photos documenting my trip to New York:
Took a trip to one of Face’s favorite spots, Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, IL with him, Brad, Jeremy, Wesley, and Ramzi. I’ve seen photos on his and other co-workers’ blogs, but after today I reaffirmed the notion that you can’t really get a true feel for a place until you’ve experienced it for yourself. And hoh-boy is it amazing.
ALOT more after the jump…
Dave asked me to take a few photos of his parents’ cleaners for a website they’re making for the business.
Unfortunately we chose the gloomiest day of the week to shoot this.
I need to work more on detail shots and capturing indoor spaces.
On Wednesday I went downtown with my friends Brad and Ned from the DI. I got there about an hour earlier than they did and shot mostly street photography before they got in. After they arrived, we walked around and I shifted a little more into architecture mode. We ate at the Billy Goat Tavern (not worth the forced $8 meal), walked 3 miles to Calumet Photo, tried to get on the 6 o’clock news, and played with flash and long exposures at Millenium Park.
Here are some of the photos I took. A lot of the photos I took looked cool in color, but it was pretty overcast all afternoon so I decided to commit to B+W. I’ll put my favorite color version photos up later.
I decided to play around with soundslides for the first time for this slideshow. Since I didn’t really have any audio from the trip, I used some mash-ups from The Hood Internet vs. Chicago (props to YS for the rec). The music doesn’t really match the photos, but its fun.