Linnea Photo — Quiet weddings, honest light.
Work
Eighteen frames from the last two seasons, mostly on film.
Info
A photographer who would rather go unnoticed in the room.
I'm Linnea. I photograph weddings and families across Bristol and the West Country, and further afield when the story is right. I work quietly, almost always in natural light, and I would rather miss a posed group than miss your grandmother laughing at the back of the room.
You'll get a small number of very good photographs rather than a great many average ones: honest colour, film grain where it belongs, nothing over-retouched. Galleries arrive within six weeks. Prints are made by a lab in Frome I have used for nine years, and every couple gets a box of twenty-five to hold, because photographs on a screen are only half finished.
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A short day
Up to five hours with one photographer. Getting ready through to the first hour of the party. Three hundred or more photographs in an online gallery, kept for a year.
£1,650from -
The whole day
Up to eleven hours, a second photographer if the guest list wants one, seven hundred or more photographs, the gallery and a print box of twenty-five.
£2,850from -
Two days
The rehearsal supper and the wedding day. A thousand or more photographs and a linen-bound album of sixty pages, designed with you over a long lunch.
£4,200from
Portrait mornings run ninety minutes and start at £340. Travel within sixty miles of Bristol is included; beyond that I only ask for the train fare. Dates are held with a £400 deposit. Ask about a date.
Journal
Notes, written slowly and not very often.
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14 Aug 2026
Why I keep shooting the getting-ready hour on film
Film slows me down in the one hour of the day when everybody else is speeding up. Twelve frames to a roll means I wait, and waiting is where the quiet pictures live: a mother's hands on the last button, the shoes still in the box, somebody looking out of the window instead of at me.
It also means the colour is decided in the camera, not on a laptop at midnight. Bone walls stay bone. Skin stays skin. I bring a digital body for the ceremony and the dancing, but that first hour belongs to the old camera.
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2 Jul 2026
A wet June wedding in Wiltshire, and why the rain was fine
It rained from eleven until four. The garden ceremony moved into the barn, the confetti happened under a doorway, and the photographs are some of the softest I have made all year. Overcast light is a very large, very kind window.
If your forecast looks grim: bring two umbrellas you actually like, give me ten minutes with the two of you when it eases, and let the rest go. Nobody remembers dry.
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21 May 2026
Planning a portrait morning with small children
Book the earliest slot, feed everyone first, and pick a place where running is allowed. I don't ask children to look at the camera; I ask parents to look at their children. The pictures that matter come out of the gaps between the things we planned.
Ninety minutes is plenty. If it goes badly we stop early and try again another day at no charge, which in nine years has happened twice.
Contact
Tell me about the day. A date and a place is enough to start.