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Welcome to our blog where we share everything from recent weddings and engagements, to our amazing adventures as a family of four. When we aren’t photographing weddings, our family is traveling the world, decorating our new home in Ottawa, Ontario or snuggled up watching movies with our basset hound, Georgia. We love working with joyous couples and absolutely cannot wait to tell your story!

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Constance Bay Beach is one of my very favourite spots for engagement sessions during summer & fall in Ottawa! The tall grass, mix of trees and white sand, it has everything a photographer could want to capture beautiful images. Emma and Iain were a joy to photograph, all playful smiles and laughter, intimate hugs, and […]

Ottawa Riverside Engagement – Emma and Iain

August 6, 2020

The Ottawa weather can sometimes throw us a curve ball. In one forecast we are shown sunny skies and the other a small chance of rain. As I drove to Madeline and Sean’s engagement session location, the rain started to pour down! I was regretful in that moment that I hadn’t postponed our session together […]

Ottawa Beachside Engagement – Madeline and Sean

August 4, 2020

I had the pleasure of capturing the talented fashion blogger Amy with her laid back fiancé Justin last week. They chose to do their engagement session downtown Ottawa! The downtown location provides the perfect contrast to their cliffside Le Belvedere wedding planned next year. We spent their session strolling around the Byward Market, taking in […]

Fairmont Chateau Laurier Engagement – Amy and Justin

July 31, 2020

Lavender sessions are one of my favourite backdrops each summer. Tetiana expressed how she was searching for a laid back, floral inspired engagement session. I knew the lavender fields in Prince Edward County would be a perfect fit, especially paired with her beautiful summery, yellow dress! The morning of the session was calling for rain. […]

Tetiana and Vlad’s Lavender Engagement Session

July 23, 2020

I had a blast getting to know Jessica and Stewart at their engagement session this summer. Jessica and Stewart chose to postpone their wedding due to the corona virus and thought it would be fun to do another engagement session for their new save-the-dates. It’s all about perspective right? Postponing will allow these two to […]

Jessica and Stewart’s Sandbanks Provincial Park Engagement

July 19, 2020

We’ve all marveled at the most glorious photos wedding photographers have to offer. They paper their homepages, coat their experience pages and fill their Instagram feeds. They are the most beautiful examples of the work these talented photographers can do, and they are the images we look at when deciding whether or not to book […]

How To Create A Cohesive Wedding Day Look

June 4, 2020

While attending The Hybrid Collective conference in San Diego, California I had the opportunity granted to me by Richard Photo Lab to experiment with the Contax 645 film camera. Since I started learning film a year ago through Julie Paisley’s Shooting Film Without Fear course, I’ve been dreaming of the day I’d have the chance […]

Our San Diego Family Adventures on Film

March 13, 2020

Every year when the lavender fields are in full bloom, people flock to the fields to soak in the calming fragrance. There are lavender farms conveniently scattered throughout the Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto areas allowing us to serve clients located in different areas. These sessions offer a soft romantic ambiance for your engagement session. We […]

Summer Lavender Field Engagement Session

March 12, 2020

At Stephanie Mason Photography & Co., we are driven by a desire to tell the most complete story possible about each and every wedding day we capture. In fact, when we are photographing a wedding, we approach it the way a director would shoot a TV show or film. We want to make sure that […]

10 Essential Wedding Day Scene-Setting Shots

March 8, 2020

When Catherine first laid eyes on Tommy, she had no idea that a beautiful adventure was about to begin. The game of basketball brought these two love birds together. They both spent their childhood, youth and early adult years competing in basketball tournaments and championships. Both played for rival universities before Tommy transferred to Catherine’s […]

Summer Garden Inspired Ottawa Golf Club Wedding

March 5, 2020

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