Zen Fox Photography

Name: Zen Fox Photography
Address: 1001 Kingwood Street studio 117, Brainerd, MN, 56401, US
Telephone: +12182321343
Price range: $$
Rating: 4.7

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Zen Fox Photography

We do weddings, engagement, graduation, maternity, newborn, commercial work, as well as landscape and event photography, portraits, and pets!
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05/13/2025

BRING ON THE SUMMER SUNSETS!!!

05/02/2025

Our highlight from the grad session we had with the incredibly accomplished, talented and hilarious Micah!

We originally worked with Micah's parents photographing their engagement and wedding. We were thrilled to be given the opportunity to photograph their son Micah's grad photos! We could not believe his incredible transformation from weightlifting!

We were so excited to put our talents to the test highlighting his awesome talents and personality!

04/29/2025

Here's our highlight from the most amazing grad session with Katlyn!

I can't believe she was shy about wanting to share her ideas she wanted us to capture at Cat tails books and gifts and The gallery of Brainerd! We had been wanting to do a session at both locations and she was the perfect client for them!

03/06/2025

Congratulations Lauren & Connor on your amazing wedding day!

The day completely encapsulated why we love doing wedding photography. Really getting to know new and amazing clients, being creative and investing countless hours into prepping and planning just to spend the day thinking on the fly to produce some really amazing images for clients to cherish for a lifetime!

The day started with the most beautiful audible. In our pre-scouting routine, with out access to the inside of the location, we identified a pine tree outside that would be perfect for hanging the dress with the church in the background that hit the brides vision for the shot. The day of however, it ended up being pretty windy, like really windy. I have several irrational wedding day fears. Ruining the dress is one of them. I had zero interest in plucking the dress out of a snow bank after it Mary Poppins's away in the wind.

I left Jeannette to photograph Lauren while I poked around to find a new location. The historic side of the church has a beautiful chapel where the ceremony would be held with stained glass windows and log wall construction. Problem solved, but I have no idea why I decided to keep looking around. Shortly I found my self on the Newer constructed side.

I may have been distracted photographing candid's of Lauren's mother and aunt steaming the veil when I peeked into the other attached church. I saw a big beautiful stained glass cross in the back and this patch of colored light coming from another stained glass window in the opposite direction. It reminded me of when I used to spin and play with the prisms hanging in the window of my grandmothers kitchen as a child and thought, this is the shot!

We set the dress where it would catch that beautiful light and sparkle! We also angled it so it would streak across the floor so it looked like the dress was casting the inverse of a shadow and glowing!

The rest of the day went for the most part as planned until right before we were about to grab our last portraits and head out. We had a ton of ideas with leading lines in stairwells, smooching on the massive fireplace, posed candid's in the gorgeous wood bar filled with mirrors. Unfortunately Lauren started to feel a bit under the weather.

We did a first look at the alter that day and our sunset portraits were cut kind of short due to the wind and the cold. We usually want around an hour in total throughout the day of just couples portraits and I felt we didn't have that. We started really slowly packing up our equipment and checking back in every few minutes while Lauren and Connor rested together on a couch while her amazing friends and family looked after her. Eventually Lauren started feeling better and agreed to some portraits.

It had been a long day and I didn't want to push too much, so it occurred to me to just capture the moment of them relaxing and being intimate where they were, and skip the grandiose shots we had planned. It ended up being really on brand for them as how we've got to know them, and we got some really fun candid's of family coming to check in on them.

08/22/2024

What a beautiful day for a wedding! Bruce & Ana were amazing! Weddings at Cragun's is the most gorgeous venue!

We almost didn't get to take these phenomenal sunset shots. When we asked the bride and groom if they were ready to take off for our plans for sunset portraits, it had already been a pretty long day for everyone. They just wanted to party and let loose on the dance floor with their guests and skip them. Which is totally fine and not uncommon. We are here to match their energy and vibe, not ours. We told them, no big deal. GO HAVE FUN!!! And we proceeded to get some really amazing photos of them dancing and interreacting together and with their guests.

But as the sun started ticking down and getting closer to the horizon it became one of those perfectly cloudy, colorful, dream sunsets. I HAD to get them outside! Normally I wouldn't push back on a clients wishes but we didn't really have a lot of portraits of just them together since we did a first look at the alter. I would have been super bummed for myself and not lived it down if I didn't somehow get this amazing couple the most memorable wedding portraits they deserved!

As I am wondering how I am going to convince them but not be a pest about it, I see the cake sitting on the table next to the windows in the reception area. I snap a pic with the gorgeous sunset in the background. I immediately bring it to the bride and groom to show them the awesome shot. I show them and they love it! So I hit them with the "Wouldn't it be so much more amazing if it was the two of you! Just give us 15 minutes on the deck. No walks, just pop outside right here and grab a few quick portraits". They instantly agreed to and were super eager!

I was so happy I was able to find a way to convince them in the right way to capture these amazing sunset portraits for them!

07/10/2024

Congratulations to Marcy & Ty on their perfect wedding day! We absolutely love farm weddings!

06/11/2024

What an amazing day we had capturing Michael & Cecily's gorgeous wedding! Oh my goodness do we love wedding photography! Such a perfect day!

Bouquet: . Cloud Floral
Church: Church of the Cross - Nisswa,MN
Decorator: 's Decorating
DJ: Midwest Sound DJ Entertainment
Reception: Grand View Lodge

06/07/2024

Congratulations to Hudson & Katy on their amazing wedding day!

These two were the most perfect couple to kick off our spring wedding season! Such beautiful and free spirits to work with!

Hair and makeup by Frills On-site Stylists

11/18/2023

Come check out our studio and some of the other commercial tennants Saturday the 18th from 10am-2pm at the Franklin Arts Center open house! We are in studio #117 on the first floor!

11/02/2023

I have been hyped for this session for a very long time! We are so honored to photograph my cousin Ren's grad session! Ren is absolutely beautiful with an amazing personality and a ton of really cool interests! And oh my goodness can she rock a serious face! We knew this was going to be an amazing session! My uncle has also been an amazingly supportive person over the years with encouraging us with our art from the beginning!

We love so much what we do and the joy it brings people, not only in the images but the experiences we have at the sessions. It feels amazing to be able to create and capture those moments. To see absolute joy and happiness on Ren and her fathers face in some of the images. Usually we only get to do it for strangers we meet on the internet🤣. It feels extra awesome to do it for people we know and care about! ❤

We had so many awesome ideas we ended up doing the session over 2 days. I also decided to split the highlight into 2 parts so we can show even more of the amazing photos we captured! We are really excited to show those as well soon!

10/31/2023

Brrrrrr! Its a chilly Halloween. Franklin Arts Center is open today from 4:30-6:30 for some of best indoor trick or treating in the area! Go say hi to Dave and Moon for us!

10/25/2023

Such a beautiful wedding for two awesome people!!! Congratulations Mike and Chantrelle! We had so much fun photographing their wedding day!! 😍😎🤘

Address

1001 Kingwood Street Studio 117
Brainerd, MN
56401

Telephone

+12182321343

Website

https://www.ZenFoxPhotography.com/

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