Ian Bursill Photography

Welcome!

Hello and welcome to my blog site. I am a wedding photojournalist based in Loughborough, Leicestershire and am one of just 48 English members of the WPJA - Wedding Photojournalist Association. I shoot wedding images in a documentary style with no intrusion (apart from a few formals if requested) enabling my clients and their guests to get on enjoy their day without worrying about the photography taking over.

I’ve been passionate about documentary photography since I was 12, when my dad bought me my first camera, a russian 35mm rangefinder. I was the school’s resident photojournalist, recording the fights and the duckings in the biology pool on pupils’ birthdays. I developed all of our own black & white work in the home darkroom and I shot about three or four weddings as a teenager before I eventually found girls, football & golf! I am happily married to Jo with two beautiful daughters, Neve and Maya.

At a close friend's wedding about seven years ago, the traditional photographer he hired took about two hours to shoot the formal group shots. As a guest, I was simply shooting for myself that day and noted that a lot of guests were complaining about the length of time stood waiting around. My vocation was soon realised when my friend said that he preferred my natural and relaxed images to the official photographer’s work and my passion for photography & recording images in a photojournalistic style was rekindled.

I now shoot digitally, working in RAW with the latest professional Nikon D3 & D700 cameras and pro lenses/flashguns. 98% of my images are captured without the use of a flash, preferring to utilise the beauty of natural light. This also enables me to remain very unobtrusive at weddings.