Durham Family Photographer

Carolyn Scott is a Durham family photographer. She specializes in candid and documentary at-home family photography in the Triangle area (Durham, Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Cary, etc). Carolyn’s work has been published in several popular books and magazines, including Apartment Therapy, BuzzFeed, and Fangoria. Locally, she’s been voted Best Photographer in Durham Magazine’s Best Of Durham and INDY Week’s Best of the Triangle. She lives in South Durham with her husband Geoff and three cats.

Breadboy and his loveable Band of Bread Brothers have returned to the blog! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I love this family with all of my heart and soul. Every year the boys run to the car to greet me when I arrive, usually holding new things that they want to show me, and definitely shouting over each other new things that they want to tell me. This year the second oldest, who is studying robotics, insisted on wiring together his little robot so that I could see it move around the floor on its little programmed path “because she only comes once a year!” The oldest showed off a quilt that he’s making. And all 5 boys (well, kinda… but not so much the baby, who was present but I’m not sure how much of a hand he actually had in the construction) showed off their magnificent cardboard and popsicle stick airport they’re building, complete with water bottle refill station (!), security gates (!), escalators (!), gate signs (!), runway (!), and food court (!). They’re working on restrooms and seats, don’t worry. They flew in a plane while I was there and it landed just fine, thank you. These kids are so cute and smart that it hurts my heart and it’s a joy every year to photograph their magnificent selves.

My sweet little crew of folks. My lifers. My client ride or dies. Always been obsessed with them and obsessed with their kid. Now they’re back, looking as lovely as ever and being as kind and gentle and hilarious as ever – this time for a mini session! And because their kid loves spooky season as much as I do and we normally do a slow-mo zombie picture (just like his parents did on their wedding day), this time we switched it up and he requested pictures of them all being spiders. See if you can spot it. :D

Had a great time chilling on a golf course with this crew. Their youngest is a golf-obsessed baby so they decided to do their family pictures at their local club where they could showcase his baby golfing skills and let the kids run around. The golfing baby is quite good at golf and has pretty excellent form for a baby, although sometimes he does use a baseball bat to putt, but that just showcases his range. The oldest sister is into soccer, art, and football, and the middle brother is excellent at wielding a bubble machine, going upside down, and taking portraits holding a football that someday will probably grace ESPN. Britsy and Graham have been together since they were teenagers and are still just as very much in love, and it was so wonderful to meet them and talk about their lives, moves, and future aspirations for themselves and their family. Had a great time, 10/10 family, would photograph again.