Frank Fenn Photographer

10/12/2026

Santa's coming back. So am I.

While I still have four weddings to photograph before the end of the year, I'm already getting ready for Santa's return to Hazeldean Mall!

We open Saturday, November 14th.

You'll find me behind the camera on weeknights, while Kathy Hoos takes care of Saturdays and Sundays.

For the first few weeks, I'm giving the jolly old elf Wednesday and Thursday nights off and using the studio for family portraits, couples, pets and headshots.

And before all that, I've added Halloween Portrait Sessions for Saturday, October 31st!

Reservations are open:

https://FrankFennIDEA3.as.me/HAZELDEAN

10/09/2026

I like it when a plan comes together.
1.I met Amy and Daniel at the Capital Wedding Show in Januart
2. We did the (free) save-the-date session in February
3. They booked me for their wedding
4. We had a practice session in May at Remic Rapids
5. Amy's hair & makeup trial was in July - so they dressed up and we had their creative session in downtown Ottawa on the same day
6. Wedding plan completed Kathy Hoos and I photographed their September wedding at the Brookstreet Hotel
7. Edited gallery of photos delivered within 2 weeks
You can see each session and their wedding on my website
https://www.frankfenn.ca/amy-and-daniel

09/20/2026

We finished the dock pictures, Cristin and Patrick came back to the beach.

We could have stopped.

But we had our umbrella.

An idea.

Patrick stood in front of it while we fired a light through from behind.

That looked interesting.

Let's put Cristin in there too?

And blow it out.

Noir it up.

Make the light do dramatic things.

Some pictures were not the bomb.

That's interesting too.

If every picture works, you aren't working.

This is Free-Range Photography.

There's a plan for the photographs we know we want.

But there's also room to create different.

Cristin and Patrick were willing to play.

We'd already had our three sessions before their wedding, making pictures and getting to know each other.

So there wasn't much explaining required.

Just, “Let's do this.”

And we did.

09/19/2026

There is a personal story in these dock pictures, but that story is not mine to share.

Instead, you can fill in the blanks and I'll share the reulting photos and how they were made possible.

I'm calling this post “The Dock Session.”

Right after dining, Cristin and Patrick wanted to get sunset pictures.

We planned their evening this way. And we also knew that the trees are just too darn tall to get a glowing sky. I had visited the site with them in July and used the SunSurveyor app to know this in advance.

So, really, they are night portraits.

Or perhaps Blue-Hour portraits.

(Either way, they were in the dark.)

In order to make this series, I was on a swaying dock, across the water, using a manually focused telephoto zoom lens and a 600-watt strobe.

Kathy Hoos was off to the right with a 200w strobe.

Otherwise we wouldn't get Cristin's hair illuminated just right.

I only felt like I would fall into the water once.

I guess I got my sea legs.

Like I said, these were planned, but it was also improvised in a collaborative way.

In the next post I'll share the photos we made right afterwards.

09/17/2026

07/28/2026

For years, many people have known me as a wedding photographer.

Others know me for architectural photography.

Some know me because I photographed their family.

Or their headshots.

Or even pictures of their dogs.

Or the annual Santa photos that become a tradition families return to year after year.

At first glance, those all seem like completely different things.

They're not.

They're all part of the same story.

History begins with a photograph.

A wedding becomes family history.

A family portrait becomes the photograph your grandchildren will know you by.

A headshot becomes the face people remember.

An architectural photograph becomes part of a building's legacy.

A personal urban architectural project becomes a record of how we lived in our cities.

Every photograph marks a moment that, one day, will matter more than it does today.

That's why this page is changing.

Rather than separating my work into different boxes, this page will become home to everything I photograph.

Weddings.

Families.

Headshots.

Architecture.

Personal urban architectural projects.

Different subjects.

And the occasional dog.

One purpose.

Your history begins with a photograph.

07/15/2026

Three sessions before the wedding day?

Yes.

Amy and Daniel’s wedding isn’t until September.

These photographs are from their third session together.

We first met at the Capital Wedding Show in January.

As Amy put it:

“Since this was our first professional photoshoot together, having those sessions made such a difference.

We felt more comfortable and confident each time, and now we genuinely feel ready for the wedding day.”

That’s exactly why every wedding now includes three pre-wedding sessions:

• Before You Book Walk to see if we’re the right fit.

• Engagement Session to become comfortable in front of the camera.

• A final pre-wedding session designed around you and your wedding.

For Amy and Daniel, that final session became a portrait session on the day of Amy’s hair and makeup trial.

By the wedding day, we’re not starting.

We’re continuing the walk we started in January.

Frank Fenn
Ottawa • Eastern Ontario • Western Quebec

The wedding photographer who photographs you before you book.

PS: I’ll be at Capital Wedding Show on October 4th, follow me to get free tickets once they are released.

06/08/2026

Thousands of cars pass over the Vimy Memorial Bridge between Riverside South and Barrhaven every hour. It’s also a great landmark for wedding pictures with access from Claudette Cain Park and Chapman Mills Conservation Area - if you don’t mind walking.
Maria and Ian and their wedding party were willing, so here we are!

06/07/2026

Maria’s prewedding with - I love that makeup artists like to use window light for a true to colour feel (and also because it often means I can shoot through glass and not interrupt their process).

05/29/2026

"What do you do together?"

Amy and Daniel met through Kendo.

So after we made the invitation photographs they needed, we made the photographs that felt like them.

The ones their friends will point to and say:

"Yep. That's Amy and Daniel."

Because the goal isn't to create a version of you.

It's to recognize the one that already exists.