Every part of my work started as a seed. Photography went in the ground in the summer of 2020, mid-pandemic, and as the passion grew, it spread: into design, into two businesses, into AI.
Some branches grow longer than others, and some intertwine. The photographer’s eye became the designer’s eye. Running Nate Tran Photography and Stella Booth taught me what shipping actually costs. And when AI showed up, it didn’t replace any of that, it gave every branch more reach. I make the product and design calls, AI does the execution, and I review everything against years of trained taste. Heft and the Stella Booth site were both grown exactly that way: my decisions, AI’s hands.
Self-taught across all of it. My loop is research, move, review, fix, so a new tool is never a threat, it’s a new branch. If you’re hiring where design judgment meets AI leverage, that loop is what you’re getting.
