Can Energy of a photon be any value along a continuous spectrum of energies?

Can Energy of a photon be any value along a continuous spectrum of energies?
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I believe it can - the energy of a photon is the product of thefrequency and Plank's constant - and as far as I know, thefrequency is not quantized.
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