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May 20, 2013

 

We have two big announcements today, definitely the most exciting Watson Studios news to date!

First and foremost we are so humbled and honored to announce that two of the best photographers in Knoxville have joined Watson Studios! Ashley Hoskins of Ashley Hoskins Photography and Lori Hensley of Lori Hensley Photography are joining together as a photography team under our brand. We are beyond excited to have Ashley and Lori on board with us. They are both very talented artists and absolutely as sweet as they can be! Ashley and Lori will be photographing weddings together, as a team, like Dan and I. Clients can expect artful, timeless, classic, wedding day imagery created with the same high quality ‘Watson Studios’ finishing and artisan albums our clients have treasured for years. It is such an honor to have them on board with us and to be able to offer brides and grooms a wider range of services through price and availability. We have select dates available this Fall and have already begun booking them for 2014!

Here is a little more about each artist!

 

And for our second announcement!! The Photo Blaster
Over the past few years we have noticed a growing trend at parties and receptions – the photo booth! We love the idea but always thought the traditional photo booth needed an update and we believe we have found the perfect solution! We’ve built something we’re calling The Photo Blaster — it is a free standing camera/touchscreen/studiolight/printer — it’s very sleek! The Photo Blaster is the perfect photo booth solution for any event – wedding reception, rehearsal dinner, engagement party, couple’s shower or any fun company, holiday, campus, franternity/sorority, youth prom or party.

 

What makes our photo booth so awesome is that it is a touchscreen photo booth with a high quality digital SLR camera, studio lighting and a sleek design can match the style and look of any event. Even better is that our portable, open-air design allows for larger groups of people than the traditional photo booth booth, along with endless location options and backdrop possibilities. We have a collection of fun backdrops for you to choose from or we can create a custom backdrop just for your photo booth! A booth attendant and unlimited prints are included with every photo booth rental. Guests love being able to take home photo booth style strips of photos. Also included are the high res digital files of all of your photo booth images and they can be used for prints, in your wedding album, online, etc.  The images from The Photo Blaster make some really fun spreads in your wedding album. Plus, we are happy for you to share all the images you’d like online and through social media. You can use the silly props we provide or not, either way it’s a win-win for you and your party. We are so excited to have a way to document ‘the guests’ and their personalities more at each event.  You wouldn’t believe how much fun people have with it at our events, from young to old, people have a blast!  We have a website and made a little video if you’d like to see more!

 

The Photo Blaster will be a separate business from Watson-Studios and Watson-Studios does not have to be providing any photography services for The Photo Blaster to be rented at a wedding or event. Watson-Studios wedding clients can receive special pricing for The Photo Blaster. Please check out The Photo Blaster website for more info and contact us if you have any questions or would like to schedule The Photo Blaster photo booth rental for your event!

 

With all these new developments, we have hired a wonderful office manager, Whitney. She is taking over a number of things for us in our studio and will also be an integral part of The Photo Blaster.

 

We just want to say thank you again. Having such faithful clients and friends, referring us to your friends, families and co-workers has given us the opportunity to keep doing what we love for the past six years. You have helped our business more than you know and we still depend on your word-of-mouth referrals to keep going year after year. Your words are priceless and the absolute best!! Your help has been and will always be critical to our success.

 

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your support and love.
Dan & Natalie

 

And because this is a photography site here are some collages of life at Watson-Studios!

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December 23, 2012

 

The Watsons are signing out for the rest of the year! :) Thanks to our dear friend Ashley Hoskins for the wonderful pictures of our family. Ash every time I look at them I get a huge smile!

  Hope y’all have a very festive week and we’ll see you again soon!

Happy Everything!

 

 

September 25, 2012

We have had such an incredible summer this year! Our work took us all over the country, which has been so fun for our little family. Here are a few pictures of places we have been this summer! The Badlands, Mendocino, CA, Mt. Rushmore, Seattle, Portland, Hood River, the Redwoods! and always one of my favorites, Western NC! Whether we’re in the grocery store or on top of a mountain it’s so amazing to see Wyatt experience the world… saying whoa and wee a lot! :)

 

 

 

 

March 2, 2012
Happy Friday y’all! :)

 


First I just want to thank everyone who reads our dear little blog. I certainly remember writing my first blog post about 5 years ago and thinking….well, no one is reading it anyways. That was definitely true at the time! It’s amazing that we have so many different people a month visiting our blog.  It’s a pleasure for us to have a great forum to show new work and have people actually look at it. Thanks so much to every one of you who makes it a point to come back to our site from time to time and see what’s new. You might have noticed that we haven’t posted anything in a while and it’s because we’re working on a new website (!!), and it’s almost ready. And who wants to update an old website when a fresh one is coming so soon?…not me :). So for the next few weeks we won’t be updating this blog, we’ll be working on the new one, getting ready for our 2012 wedding season which starts in April for us and hopefully getting in some pre-season R&R.  
We’re so excited about 2012 and all of the wonderful weddings we get to be a part of. We have so many exciting ones. Many in Knoxville, three out west, one in Charleston, one in Atlanta, and about four in Western North Carolina! It’s going to be a really fun year and we couldn’t be more excited or thrilled to start our 2012 weddings off with a bang… and gosh, what an amazing honor this job is anyways.

Thank you for continuing to check in on our little blog and we hope that everyone is enjoying this amazing weather (well maybe not todays weather if you’re in the southeast)!! 

Here’s a funny little picture of our little baby…. who’s getting to be not that much of a baby anymore. I can’t believe Wyatt will be one at the end of the month! 

Hope everyone has a great March, we’ll see you in April!


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November 9, 2011
We are sitting pretty over here at casa Watson!! We just shot our last wedding of 2011 this past Saturday and we are just sighing a little sigh of relief. Whew, we made it through another great year!! And best of all we made it with a baby!! I *think* if we can make it through this year we can make it through any year and that’s certainly an amazing feeling to have :).
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As I look back on the jobs we had this year one thing I notice is that they just keep getting better and better. This past fall we had so many brides being truly creative with their weddings making it all the more fun for us to snap away.  We’ve got tons of great stuff heading to our blog in the coming weeks and others to be considered for publication in magazine and blogs. It’s always such an honor to colaborate and be featured on a wedding blog or magazine. This Fall we’ve had several great features come out and I know more to come from all of our creative brides this year!
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Paige and John’s fabulous Blackberry Farm wedding was featured in the Fall issue of Weddings Unveiled Magazine. Our posts from their wedding are Here, here, here and here! :)
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Once a wedding is on Style Me Pretty it often gets picked up by other publications near and far. Lindsey and James wedding, which was featured on Style Me Pretty this fall is making it’s way around the world! Her flower idea was featured in Flowers, a UK magazine and also on a blog in the Netherlands!
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Likewise, Robin and Paul’s wedding in Beverly Hills, one of our favorites from 2009, was featured on I Do Venues.

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Ashley and Nate won the cover contest for the cover of The Pink Bride Knoxville! Their wedding at the First Apostolic Church of Knoxville is one we will never forget from 2010! I just went back and read what I wrote about their wedding and I’m laughing at myself… I still don’t think we’ve ever done a wedding with that many guests, we will never forget it. We just loooove Ashley and Nate and their engagement and bridal shoots too! Congrats guys!
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Today, Heather and Dustin’s wedding is being featured on Style me Pretty – Georgia. Here is a link to the post. Their wedding took place at a new favorite venue, the Inn at Serenbe, just south of Atlanta!

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October 31, 2011

A Wyatt update is long overdue so I thought what better day to do that than Halloween. I’m so excited about all the holidays coming up, sooooo much more fun with a baby!! He’s the absolute best thing we’ve ever done and we’re both totally 10000% obsessed and in love with this little man. It’s so hard to believe that it’s already been seven months!…it seems like yesterday he looked like a little alien! We’ve been all over with this little guy, he’s a great traveler. Here are some recent photos!

Happy Halloween!
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Dan wanted Wyatt to be a pirate for some odd reason so I made him a little costume.
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These are from our trip to CA — can’t wait to show y’all that wedding!!!
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My boys ;)
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My new Facebook profile pic :)
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I just think this one is funny… we use this carrier all the time.

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No clue where the blue eyes come from…

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These are from NC…

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We look forward to seeing this little face every morning!
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Another from Halloween! Wyatt and his cousins Jack (14 months) and Baylor (8 months)…. This picture is nothing to brag about but let me tell you it is about impossible to get a good shot of these three… Just imagine 3 crazy moms in the background singing and dancing and practically standing on our heads to even get this. LOL….
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