First things first, I’m Savannah aka Van. How do blogs work? Do I just start posting? Do I need to tell you who I am? Do you care who I am? Whatever, here goes nothing.

I am from a very, very small town in Tennessee and got out as soon as I could…an hour away #rebel. I went to MTSU in Tennessee and I have a degree in Photography. Film photography. I love it; the patience required to find the correct exposure, seeing your freshly developed images on film, the smell of chemicals in the darkroom. My first love, film photography. Then, the real world sets in and everything is digital. Go back to school they say, it will pay off in the end, they say. I then went CU in Tennessee, got a Master’s Degree in Special Education. BOOM, Nashville explodes, housing market is unrealistic and I am working on a teacher’s salary. Life if wonderful.

Now I don’t want to sound like I am complaining at all, but you are on my blog and that’s how I feel about it all. However, I do love my current job. I love my students an every day is a new crazy. Do I miss the photography field, every damn day. Do I have summers off to where I can try to get back into it, sure do. So, here I am, on my digital platform, trying to just figure out how to balance my current job with my first love.

Will every image I post be a film scan? Have you seen how expensive film is now….no. Will I brag when I do post an amazingly beautiful film scan…yes. I have NO CLUE what this blog will end up becoming. This may be the only post I ever manage to publish. Who knows? Oh, did you see my obligatory picture of myself at Machu Picchu? Peace.