the fly guide »

Feb 10 2012

love & last chance to own the guide.

for many a photographer, the season we are in leads us into a new phase of our art often known as the winter.

the fly guide was written during such a time in my own life and as i look ahead at the coming months i wanted to encourage my fellow friends & colleagues that you can fly through this time – and better yet? come out inspired to create, craft, and make beautiful photographs. that is what the guide is all about.

sale? yes sale! treat yourself this valentines day weekend with the guide. simply click right here to go to the purchase page and be sure to enter your discount code: love at checkout to get yours for only $149!

last chance? yes. the guide will no longer be available for sale after this weekend. would love for you to have the opportunity to be a part of the fly journey…

the fly guide is an instant downloadable e-book that is meant to guide you, at your own pace, through the four phases of flight. it includes all of the information covered in the one on one and group flys that took place over the last year.

also included is access to the private facebook group, where you are able to connect and share with other songbirds! (which will remain active although the guide will no longer be for sale.)

songbird share: jaime’s flight

Blinders On

We hear all these metaphors about finally taking the blinders off and in that we find our freedom. When I jumped into Fly, I had the opposite experience. I needed to put the blinders ON. I remember struggling with myself…

Jai, stop watching your peers.

Stop being distracted by the junk around you.

Stop getting caught up in what you think you are supposed to do.

Focus on Jai.
Sit.
Listen.
Feel.
Be angry.
Go ahead, Get mad.
Hate yourself…

That’s right. i hated myself And when I allowed myself to do that, I began to understand exactly what had been holding me back my whole life, in everything I had ever attempted and given up on. It wasn’t an event or circumstance or another person…

It was me.

I had been my own worst enemy. I let my need to make everyone else happy run my life. And now it had crept into my photography. Photography as artistic expression and photography as income had been hard for me to balance. I always felt obligated to clients to shoot what I thought clients wanted to see and process the images in ways I thought they’d like. Of course then I would get frustrated because the images, while nice, do absolutely nothing for me. They don’t move me, speak to me, or any of those other oh so real cliches. When I started Fly I thought ‘This will be a fun little activity.‘ I had no idea the effect it would have on me, even beyond photography. With the very first Fly assignment, I found myself in tears, a song on repeat, and my camera in hand. I HAD to start shooting for me. If I could just get beyond my own self doubt and self criticism, I was sure I could start producing work that I would feel passionately about. And because my work would convey my passion, potential clients would seek me out because that passion would be conveyed through my work. I had to believe in myself before I could expect anyone else to do so.

- jaime fleming

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jenn - this is absolutely true! Not just in photography but life. Everything we do in life should move, speak, do something to us-otherwise why do it?

ana Luisa Solis - it is curious for me to be reading this today…. you describe perfectly how I’ve been feeling for the past few months…. and although I mainly shoot for me, since I still don’t have enough clients, I find myself thinking of what the others would say about my pictures even though they will never see them…