Happy New Year!

Here's a quick look back at a few of the many wonderful people I've had the opportunity to work with this year. Here's wishing you and yours a happy and healthy 2009!

Yes, Virginia...

Eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York's Sun in 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history's most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other editorials, and on posters and stamps. This article has special meaning for the Dupuis Family this year. Merry Christmas to you all! Read on... "DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old. "Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. "Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.' "Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus? "VIRGINIA O'HANLON. "115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET." VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

It's beginning to look a lot like...

It's beginning to look a lot like CHRISTMAS at Denise Dupuis Photography - Both inside and out!

There's still time to order portraits from your session for that special gift between now and the December 15th deadline. We offer everything from wallet-sized images on up to 20x30 wall portraits and larger. Call or e-mail me soon and we'll wrap up your Christmas shopping fast!

Happy Holidays!

Santa Claus is Coming to Town!

Santa Claus is Coming to Town!

Free Portrait with Santa
Saturday, December 6th
9AM - 1PM
No Appointment Needed

Denise Dupuis Photography
279 Goodwins Mills Rd (Rt 35)
Lyman, Maine

FMI: 499-2592

Kissing Cousins

Holme for the Hoidays

Bob, Nina, Robby and Trenton were all recently home for the Thanksgiving Holiday... a rare treat now that the boys are getting older and everyone is so busy. That's why it was so important to Nina that she get a family portrait taken... While the gang, (even the pup, Roxy) was all under one roof.

I was so glad that this fun bunch took time out from their busy schedules to squeeze a session in between a family wedding, Thanksgiving, etc. Because we've all heard that there's no place like home for the Holidays, but unless you've actually had family be away, you don't realize how true that is.

All I Want for Christmas...

Prashant and Ruchi have already received the only gift they wanted this year. On Friday (less than one week after these portraits were taken) this new mom and dad welcomed baby girl Malvika into their lives and onto Santa's "nice" list.

As Ruchi recovers from delivery surrounded by loved ones from far away and the new little family settles in to a different routine, (or no routine as the case may be) it makes us think what's really important during this season... family.

Congratulations!