Photography Motivation! 'Best of John Free' 

you have no idea how precious this is.... thank you for the videos sir... will try to live by your wisdom and create

@@Ardavan47 Hooray for us both.

Your energy and wisdom is very much appreciated Mr. Free. I hope this message finds you well. Thank you for your work!

Thanks John for letting us in, I love your energy!

I love how passionate you are about your photography. I revisit this video often just for the sheer inspiration. Thank you, John! Hope to see more videos from you.

Well said.

Thank you Marcel. The camera and a noble intent gives us power. Power for us to provide entertainment and understanding with our heartfelt photographs. A walk to the store will never be the same, when we take along a camera and a desire to make something which might be valuable to all. In all my years of teaching, I have found that anyone, young or old can make wonderful photographs. Think like a writer who searches his or her brain and soul to find the right words to tell an important story which all mankind should read and benefit from. A combination of well chosen words to get the story right. With the camera, we must frame in the viewfinder well chosen elements, factors and details to tell an important story. Include the right details and exclude the distracting details to make visual poetry. They called my friend Robert Frank, a poet with a camera. We all have the talent to do it, but very few believe believe they have the talent. In 25 years of teaching with my son Scott, we have noticed that anyone can do important work with their heart, mind and camera. Photography gives us all great power to make great images and to impress ourselves with ourselves.

You and Bruce Gilden are my favorite photographers.Your approaches to taking photographs could not be more different but at the core you have the same goodness.

I carry my camera everywhere because of you John, you have left your mark sir

Hey Longrider, My pleasure to get you motivated. Why not share with others what has given me so much love and understanding of what is important in my life. To help others gives me a little kind of power. A good from the heart power to you my friend.

Yes,,totally agree with you Marcel...*

Hey Kostas, hope you’re still going strong! I actually wanted to do a photography project in Greece last year but my university declined the funding. Now I’m thinking to do it on my own in the future. If you want to work with me on that, hit me up!

@@Rafa-yw8nu Hi Rafael, glad to hear, it would be my honor! Unfortunately, I no longer live in Greece. A few months ago, I accepted a position in Spain for 5 years. Wish you all the best with your project!

And the fact that he vlogs. We are all very lucky.

I entirely agree with this statement.

we are incredibly fortunate that a man with such experience shares his days. I really love your videos btw, i've been watching the last few months and you guys have some of my favorite Fuji content on RU-vid! :) @Denae & Andrew

Aw. Thanks Domenic. Good to stumble into a viewer :)

Denae & Andrew I'm actually watching one as we speak haha of course, not sure if this is Andrew or Denae but, thanks for the content!

You honor me sir. Thank you.

Very true Longrider love this guys perspective on photography.

Thank you, thank you J.J. My day will be a happy one because of your kind, thoughtful and accurate words. No practice, not much thought, just keep pushing the button and everything will be fine, because our mothers told us we were special and great, but where is any good product we might have made? Just keep pushing the button and something might be made from it.

Hi Armand. I just watched it again and enjoyed the message and the great fun it gave me and Deeno by making the video to share what has been such a loving part of my life.

@@JohnFreePhtography please continue doing this kind of video's. so fun to watch and very informative. specifically to people like me who is just starting out. stay healthy John. thank you.

@@armandcrispo Thanks Armand. Happy you started. You will have great fun and pleasure. Happy I can help.

O.K. Lewis. Lets go into the magic where the photos come from. We walk together. Smile.

Thanks Bob. I am happy to share some of the insights I have had over the years. I think about the process and I write notes about the process of making meaningful photographs. Research and practice, but mostly thinking about what is the best thing I can do with my camera today. I also listen to the good advice from my friend Robert Frank, who said, "We must be detectives when it comes to our photography".

Hi Keith, I am happy my videos have inspired you to pick up the camera again. The camera takes me to a special place in my mind and heart. Our chance to speak out with images that might have the visual power to excite the viewer of our photographs and to provide a better understanding of our lives because you made a visual poem from your heart and your camera which went out to the world of mankind to help explain man to man and each man to himself. We all have this power inside. We all have this creative ability to make wonderful images. I wish all men and women had the noble and happy intent to photograph from the soul and make powerful images that will be here for thousands of years for all mankind to learn from. You have the power to do this wonderful work Keith. I will be with you in spirit while you search for meaning with your camera and your grand intent.

Gday Alex. thank you for reaching out. A great pleasure to know you. Thanks for the nice words. We are working on a new video.

@@JohnFreePhtography I love it. Yes please. You actually speak from the inside of you and your inspiration of motivating people around. Which soooo nice from a real human being that we don't see much anymore around. That is why I'm so grateful that I came across someone like you over the video you share to the world of us. Again thank you. 🙇

As Meyerowitz stated you must have another eye outside the frame...

Thanks John. A life change for me too. Something important for me to do. Photography got into my soul and heart and it makes me happy to share that pleasure with you. My son Scott and I have been conducting classes and workshops for 25 years. We have learned in those many years how anyone can become very effective at making meaningful photographs. Photographs that reach out to all of us with a message about ourselves as humans and from that a better understanding of all of us.

Photography has been a wonderful part of my life. Practice and study will bring a photographer to a much higher level of awareness about where to point the camera and when to push the button. The fingers must be able to work well with the mind and imagination and be able to make the shot on time. To coincide with the wishes of the brain. How quick is our brain and how quick is our finger to push the button? Life has given us a great chance to do something well and to do something important to us all. Take the time to improve and then know the great feeling of success when you can photograph at the speed of life.

Also worth mentioning, I had this fear I would be questioned or confronted. I was taking shots of people only feet away and not once did I get a bad reaction. Usually a smile and a thumbs up...i was pleasantly surprised

Yes, the camera connected to the heart will pull you to wonderful places where photographs are waiting. You make these images to cure. When we need to be cured, we cure others. Yes, I know what the blues can be like and I also know what a search for goodness with a camera can do for the soul. you are a healer.

Hooray for us to be able to go to that special place in our heart and through our soul and with a little press of our finger make magic happen. We can escape to this wonderland whenever we want just by thinking about it and preparing ourselves to be ready to react to life and to ourselves at the same instant. Love, love.

@@JohnFreePhtography Your the best at it and I watch you everyday, when I get home from shooting pix in NYC. Today was a magical day, with several magical moments, in street portraiture. Thanks John.

Thanks Max. Go fly. A strong and determined approach to achieve personal excellence.Listen to your prepared mind and allow room for the subconscius. Be honest with your self. Compare your work to to the photos of the greats and learn from any failure. The passion from knowing the potential and the camera strap will pull you to fantastic places and to places in your heart you didnt know about.

Sammy and Johnny having fun together making pics.

You made my day much brighter Peter. Thank you. Photography can be a wonderful part of ones life. A search for images taken from real life moving situations found most anywhere with the intention and purpose of sharing these special instants in life with all mankind. This brings us all to a higher station or level in our own minds and hearts knowing that our true intent with the camera is to spread understanding and poetic entertainment for men to see and hopefully take something good from the experience of looking at my or your photograph.

I cannot express how much your videos opened my eyes. Your words truly speak to me, they helped me realize what photography can be in ones life. I love the true, simple, hard working, speaking from their heart people, because i feel that in today's world there aren't many of them left. So i treasure this so much. I will do my best to attend one of your classes John. All the best.

Hooray. Thanks Michael. To be able to make photographs anywhere at 1000th of a second and maybe create a photograph which has great value for many people for 100,000 years. How could I ask for anything more stimulating and rewarding?

Thank you for your kind words.

I've attended one of his workshops in the past and to be able to hear and learn his practice regime is by far one of the best experiences ever. If you are able to attend one. It will change your approach on everything.

Thanks Don. Nobody has as much fun as John Free.

Love back to you. We are dancing through our lives with a Camera and a searching eye and a racing heart which finds the instant to push the button.

Thank you. I wish all photographers will be able to find their own unique personal photographic vision. I try to help with my thoughts and videos.

Hooray. Another pair of eyes hooked to a heart hits the streets.

Sir YES SIR!

Thanks. Just a student here.