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.
Everyone’s getting married! Another one of the brothers from my fraternity, Matt (who graduated a little while back), came down from Chicago to propose to his girlfriend at the spot by an illiosk on the quad that they used to meet at after class. Scottie let me know about it the night before and thought that it would be a cool idea to creep on them through my lens like I did with Adam. However, we had no idea when they were coming or how they were going to be positioned. Nonetheless, it was still a really neat little moment to see from 50 yards away. I wish I had been creeping from a closer spot, and at a better angle, but such is life.
On Halloween my friend Adam took his girlfriend to Allerton Park for a scavanger hunt. Little did she know that it was really a setup for him to propose to her. :-)
This is me dumping some random fraternity pictures from the past month.
I got an impromptu call from my good friend Johnny that he was in going to be in town after finishing up with Air Force training in Montgomery, Alabama for six weeks. So, we met up for breakfast on Saturday with our friend James.
Johnny will be in AF training for a little bit longer and then will be stationed in New Jersey for the next couple years. I’ve gotta get out to the east coast sometime to visit.