Bernard Dupuis Partners with Latitude Image: Elevating Real Estate to a Real Art
With 20-plus years of experience as a Real Estate Agent, Bernard Dupuis, owner of In Flight Imaging out of Ontario, Canada, is “well aware of the various elements to help market a property.” As his collection with Latitude Image shows, Bernard is also well aware of how to offer the world artistically intriguing aerial photography. “If you can imagine,” says Bernard, “I have over 100,000 negatives of building images.” He adds “not digital” to the end of his statement just in case the magnitude of possessing that much imagery, in actual physical form, isn’t fully grasped.
Combine that physical stock with his digital collection on Latitude Image, and, well, it would seem that Bernard has spent his entire life in the air. “You might imagine that when it comes to going up flying,” he says, “I might think ‘been there, done that.’ But every time I step into an aircraft, the everyday, mundane humdrum is instantly brushed aside and the exhilaration of flight takes over…. The moments become surreal and everything is an inspiration.”
That inspiration began nearly 30 years ago when Bernard was in the midst of his Real Estate career and simultaneously obtaining his private pilot license. “I’ve always wanted to fly, [and] I eventually started taking aerial photography of the properties I was working on to enable me to market my listings.” Soon, the brokerage community got wind of his combined talent and Bernard began receiving requests to photograph other agents' listings. “The rest,” as Bernard says, “is history.”