Watkins Creative

Lifestyle photography & videography · UK

Watkins Creative — Lifestyle Photography & Videography for Cottages & Airbnb Stays

Photography and film for cottages, boutique hotels and Airbnb stays — the rooms, the grounds and the small details in between.

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Little Nook Cottage

01The approach

Over the last few years I've spent most weekends in the Cotswolds and beyond, working with owners who care about how their property reads online. The result is a library of images — consistent in tone, generous in quantity, and yours to use.

  • Websites
  • Direct bookings
  • Listings
  • Press
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Selected stays

Moments from the English countryside

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The Guest Suite

The Guest SuitePanelled bedroom, private estate — Gloucestershire01
Arrival at DuskGarden gate & porch light02
Marble & LightBathroom vanity, morning window light03
A Long SoakCandlelit bath, evening04
The VillageHoney stone at sunset05
By the FireSitting room, winter afternoon06
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Recent projects

Every stay tells a story.

The Three Horseshoes inn with a Land Rover Defender outside

Country inn · Cotswolds

The Three Horseshoes

Tregoney Cottage, a stone cottage in soft daylight

Holiday cottage · United Kingdom

Tregoney Cottage

Stone cottages and rooftops at sunset through an open window

Boutique stay · Oxfordshire

The Old Coach House

All projects

What I shoot

Four ways a place sells itself

Warm guest bedroom with breakfast tray at the foot of the bed

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Interiors

Rooms photographed as guests find them — light, texture and the small comforts that sell a stay.

The Three Horseshoes inn with a Land Rover Defender outside

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Exteriors & Grounds

Frontages, gardens and courtyards shot at the hour they look their best, whatever the weather does.

Breakfast tray with coffee and pastries on crisp white linen

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Food & Drink

Breakfast trays, the kitchen's best plate and a drink in the garden, all in natural light.

Camera, coffee and pastry on a cafe table

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Lifestyle & Detail

The dog by the fire, the brass handle, the boots by the door — the images people actually share.

“Bookings from our own website went up the season after Tom's shoot. Guests arrive quoting the photographs back to us.”

Testimonial — owner, country inn

Honey-stone Cotswold village descending towards open countryside at sunset

Let's photograph your place next season

Dates for spring and summer are booked a few months ahead. Tell me about the property and I'll come back with a plan and a quote.

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