Wayward Spirit Photography Getting to Grips with an increasing demand for Drone Photography

September 30, 2021

The last couple of weeks have continued to be pretty manic, I am slowly getting to grips with the property photography, although it has prompted a big shake up in my workflow which I am planning to work on over the weekend ready to put it in place for next week.  I am switching from laptop working at a desk to tablet working in the field in an attempt to get the process much smoother & more efficient.  If this works for me it will feed into a gradual shift further from my previous status quo with as much editing done on the tablet as possible & an eventual shift from a laptop to desktop for back in the office (which will help with storage capacity as well as offering more “bang for the buck” in terms of processing power.

I am continuing to work on the wedding shots from a fortnight ago between jobs, but the last couple of days have necessitated some serious back-office work which has slowed progress on that task.  I need to get on with it asap though!

I have just booked an exciting job in for late October over on the Isle of Lewis which I am rather looking forward to.  It was going to be a reasonably well paying day, but we have decided to go over en-mass for a night or two so that Jen & the boys can get a first visit to the Outer Hebrides which will be fantastic, but does mean that the trip is now barely breaking even (once I add the other expenses of the trip it is going to work out neutral I think, better than losing money on it though!)

Otherwise, work is tending to centre around Inverness, Elgin & Tain just now with the odd outlier such as Newtonmore.  I am working with 4 agents in particular & another few ad-hoc so as these agents expand their portfolios I will no doubt find myself in ever more unusual places!  I am rather enjoying it, my work is getting better as I start to get an eye on the property game & I am becoming more efficient with the 360 scans (which should get a big boost next week with the new tech).

The Cromarty Bridge curves over the firth between the Black Isle and the Tain peninsula in the Highlands of Scotland.

We need to make a big push over the next few days to try & get the ball rolling with the accommodation business as we really need to see that become a reality in Spring 2022 & I need to book some more drone courses for the winter too.  But just now things are starting to look positive & we have (hopefully) made a start which we can grow from.

Portmahomack in Easter Ross, a fishing village on the Dornoch Firth near Tain.

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