Where this started.
I started with a drone in high school. Turns out that was the beginning of a much bigger question.
Drones came first. Junior year of high school, I got a drone and started shooting aerial photography for anyone in Spokane who wanted a view they couldn't get from the ground. That was the whole business at the start. Kid with a drone and a mailing list.
From drones I moved to stills. The first edit I felt was actually mine was a close-up like the one here — leaves and rock and a strip of river. Aerial work moves fast. Stills make you slow down, get low, and watch the same frame ten different ways before you press. That patience was the first real thing photography taught me that the drone couldn't.
Landscapes came from that same instinct. Get lower than you think you need to, and let the texture do the work. Half of what makes a photograph land happens about six inches off the ground.
Cars followed the same rule. Curved surfaces reward the same patience — angles, light, waiting for the right moment on the paint. I started shooting my own car, then friends', then paid work. The discipline was already there from the landscapes; I just pointed it somewhere with wheels.
Somewhere in there I started building the websites clients needed and couldn't get elsewhere. That pulled me into web design, then marketing, then brand identity. Building for clients made me want to build software of my own, which is what got me into code. April 2026 I opened Claude Code for the first time on my grandfather Kim's advice. He worked in AI before it was called AI, and he told me to go try "vibe coding." Five months in, Beyond Limitz ships two of its own software products (one for funeral homes, one for hospitality creators), has a growing paying client roster, and has a patent portfolio in the pipeline.
I'm 22 now, based in Spokane, self-taught in every discipline the studio uses. I don't call myself a coder because I don't write code the way engineers write code. I direct AI as engineering staff. Kim calls it something different. The people paying me call it something different again. What I know is that the work ships.
What I shoot: landscapes, aerials, cars — and I do the brand work that goes around them.
“When I've got nothing polished I'll share process instead of product.”
This blog is where I'll write about it. Shoots, projects, what I'm learning, what I got wrong the first time. Some posts will be photography-heavy. Others are about running a studio at 22, what breaks, what works, what I still can't figure out. When I've got nothing polished I'll share process instead of product.
My PHOTO 200 class is what pushed me to actually start this. Blogs are how you build a practice online, and this is me starting.
Welcome to the journal.