Awards

• Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year Commended 2024

• Property Photographer of the Year Winner 2022

• Outdoor Photographer of the Year Winner 2006
   

Clients

Home Sweet Home (Inverness)
Bell Ingram (Beauly)
McPhee & Partners (Fort William)
Interhome
Singletrack
The Times
The Westmoreland Gazzette
Inverness Courier
The Daily Mail
RNLI

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Rob Sutherland began his photography career working on expedition in the Amazon Rainforest, working with a trusty old Nikkormat FT3 and a couple of scrounged lenses to create both beautiful images of the jungle as well as a record of the expedition’s work and life. He has shot in all climatic extremes since these days in the humid tropics, from deserts to the arctic wilderness.

Rob’s first love is photographing the dramatic landscape of his home in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Now based in Drumnadrochit he is able to cover the whole of the northern half of Scotland with ease, and covers this vast area as a commercial photographer working in a wide variety of fields. He is always striving to bring something “extra” to his work, both injecting his own personality and that of his client into the final imagary.

As well as photography Rob has embraced the aerial world through the use of drones and now covers both stills and videography from both the ground and the air. He is also able to pull aspects of a diverse career into his work - be it as a musician shooting other musicians, an archaeologist drawing inspiration from the past or an engineer working to provide aerial surveys for his clients, or even drawing on a background in architecture to aid production of floorplans for short term lets and property sales.

Rob holds a BSc: Archaeology, MSc: ICT and MSc: Architecture (Advanced Environmental and Energy Studies)

Whilst Rob currently doesn’t maintain a fixed studio, working as a location photographer, this may change in the future. For the moment he operates from the family home in Drumnadrochit on the shores of Loch Ness, where he also volunteers on the RNLI Crew as Launch Authority.

There are plans afoot for a permanent studio as well as venturing into tuition, guiding and general workshops which will incorporate a wide range of subjects and skills… as well as offering something a little different to the market than anything currently available!

The Original wayward spirit

Wayward Spirit was not always mine… the original was my eldest brother, Neil. He was a force of nature, an inspiration and a genuine polymath. His resourcefulness meant he could turn his hand to pretty much anything and his perfectionism meant he would excel at it. Wayward Spirit was the name he devised for his own studio output in Hollywood, working with some astonishing talent in the world of movies, music and beyond.

Unfortunately we lost Neil to the darker side of Hollywood, he became another statistic several years ago when his life was cut short the day before his 48th birthday. In the aftermath we found the registration details for his domain names amongst other things just as I was coming to terms with my own life changing circumstances following a car crash that was truncating my career in engineering. I decided to pick up Neil’s studio name, remodel it on my own strengths and abilities, and run with it - in part to commemorate who he was and in part to keep drawing on his inspirational character as I pursued my own dreams. Wayward Spirit is in part a memorial to someone dearly missed by so many, and in part to keep his dreams alive whilst also pushing me towards something of my own and intrinsic to myself.