Go to space
See erupting lava
Start a fire with stones ✔
Visit all 50 United States (Currently at 39)
Stand atop the tallest building in the world
Make the News ✔
Dive in a cenote ✔
Smoke a cigar in Cuba
Learn how to pick a lock
Leave a 100% Tip ✔
Paraglide
Buy a house for my parents
Drive the Autobahn
Stay in the treehouses of Seattle
Fly first class
Photograph an out of state wedding ✔
Take my Dad to the super bowl
Jump off a large waterfall
Stomp grapes at a winery
Learn how to blow glass ✔
Learn Spanish
Learn Russian
See the Aurora Borealis
Walk through Central Park ✔
Haggle for useless trinkets ✔
Photograph NYFW
Have cereal milk ice cream at MILK in NYC ✔
Jump out of a plane
Photograph a wedding on the moon
Ride in a helicopter ✔
Photograph a wedding in Hawai’i
Set foot on all 7 continents
Dunk ✔
Be my own boss ✔
Get published in a national magazine ✔
Visit the Sistine Chapel
Walk through a red wood
Donate an organ to save a life
Photograph a wedding in another country ✔
Meet another John Mansfield
Watch a meteor shower ✔
Patent something
Be a guest on the Tonight Show
Free dive in Jellyfish Lake
Kayak the Grand Canyon
Live abroad
Fly a stunt plane
Float in the Dead Sea
Eat a Beignet at Café Du Monde ✔
Dive the crystal clear water of Silfra
Catch a fish a cook it within hours ✔
Do a polar plunge
Swim in all 5 oceans (Currently 2)
Walk on a bed of coals
Climb Mt. Sinai
Climb the heavenly stairs
Host a charity event ✔
Fire a bazooka
Surf
Give $100k to charity
Tour the White House
Meet the President
Dive in complete darkness
Eat at a Michelin 3 star restaurant
Fly a hot air balloon
Impulsively give something of value away to someone in need ✔
Be in a movie
Hang out with Jack Black
Watch a movie at a drive-in theater ✔
Open a drive-in theater
Break a Guinness World Record
Crash a wedding
Shoot for National Geographic
Go to Hogwarts ✔
Share a meal with a homeless person ✔
Take my wife to Ireland
Earn $100k+ a year ✔
Spend the night in a castle
Host a full photography workshop ✔
Dinner for two at a restaurant from Chef’s Table
Fully fund someone’s adoption
Sail in the ocean ✔
Kiss in the pouring rain ✔
Learn Sign Language
Kill it at Karaoke ✔
Volunteer in another country ✔
Explore a ghost town
Visit Chernobyl
Go whitewater rafting
Take the family to Disneyland
Spend a day at Stonehenge
Fire a sniper rifle
Gamble in Vegas
Learn to use chopsticks ✔
Learn to play Chopsticks ✔
Adopt a child
Submarine the Marianas Trench
Go to the top of the Empire State Building ✔
Camp Yellowstone
Learn to fly a plane
"John made us feel comfortable and helped our wedding day run smoothly!"
Layne + Shane 09.28.2021
"If you want an organized, fun, and amazingly talented photographer John is the way to go!!"
Demi + Lorenzo 03.13.2021
"John and his staff are determined to capture everything you want and more.”
Tiffany + Jerrott 02.23.2019