I am located in the community of Brookfield, Nova Scotia, on Canada’s magnificent east coast.

I wish I picked up a good camera when I was a kid. Instead, I picked up a hockey stick. Don't get me wrong: I love The Game. I've loved the Leafs since Mom let me turn the channel on the TV by myself. I saw them win their last Stanley Cup. I played hockey all my life but let's be honest with each other: I sucked at it.

I got sick in the mid-1990's and moved to one of the most beautiful places in Canada: Nova Scotia. After I got here, I started fooling around with a 35mm Canon and then later moved into the digital age. I haven't looked back since.

My goal isn't to take pictures. It's to create some- thing... Something that can be passed down from one generation to the next. I hope that some how, just one of my photographs mean something to someone, that it touches someone or perhaps, if I'm really lucky, that it will impact someone's life in some small way.

A photograph isn't just a picture. It is a time capsule: an all too brief moment in time that is captured forever. It is a legacy: a fleeting glimpse back at history. When seen in that way, making a photograph isn't just a hobby, or even a job: it's a responsibility. Photography can be... no, it should be fun, but I always keep in mind that when I press the shutter button, I am capturing history. It goes even further... When you upload that image to the internet, it is out there forever. We as photographers owe it to ourselves, to our peers and to the people and things we photograph, to make sure it is always the very best we can do. And we owe it to posterity too.

Remember, whether you are a professional photographer, a dedicated hobbiest or just someone with a disposable camera, you have a choice to make. You can press the shutter button, or you can choose not to press it. But whatever choice you make, it is a tiny fragment of history that you see in the viewfinder. A photograph is the closest thing to a time machine that we are ever going to have. It is easier to throw a picture away, than it is to capture that moment again. Choose wisely.

Please take a few minutes to browse through The Art of Rick Dupuis. I've tried to make you comfortable in my home so it's easy to find your way around. Just click on any of the buttons at the top of the page and they'll take you anywhere you want to go.

If you have any interest in modeling, or if you just want to know what it's like to be a model for a day, please contact me. If you have an idea in mind that will fit in with what I'd like to do, perhaps we work together to see it completed. I am always willing to shoot something you want, if you'll shoot something I want for my portfolio. Quite often, they end up being the same thing.

God bless the men and women who wear the uniforms of Canada and the United States of America.

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