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.

I’ve worked with this family several times in my life and every time I do I’m better for it. Not just because they’re wonderful people but they’re also some of the funniest I’ve met, so I always come away with new jokes and songs. This time they taught me a song about peeing and a song about how you don’t have to wash black socks because they never look dirty. I think it goes without saying that I love them all and their three dogs. They’re such a fun bunch and they treat me like family every time, no matter how long it’s been since I’ve seen them. They also like Legos. Like, pretty extravagant Legos that take a long time to build and I respect that. I had a great time visiting with this hilarious crew, building Legos, fighting with lightsabers, blowing bubbles, swinging on hammocks, knocking down blocks and eating donuts. So happy to have them be a part of my client family! Much love to Robert and Julie, Hannah and Benny, Ben and Jen, and the kids!

Megan and Carly’s children continue to amuse and delight another year later! Last time, their son was just a lil baby and Big Sister was all decked out in shark shoes and a variety of different outfits, all of them fabulous. This time, Little Brother has just turned two and loves puzzles and cars and slides and his big sister. Big Sister is four and is incredibly theatrical and loves everything and everyone, and still prefers multiple outfit changes a day into really fabulous clothes. Both of them majorly love glitter and intentionally overuse it in their craft projects. Little Brother, at one point, spilled red glitter all over his blue paints. Big Sister gasped, paused, then said, “I love that for you!” They both looked like they had murdered someone covered in glitter by the end of the project and were quite pleased with themselves. Both love dancing and playground equipment and piggyback rides and racing, although Big Sister can’t help herself regarding early starts. They’re wonderful kids who are joyful and sweet and love each other and their moms so much. I’ve loved watching Megan and Carly’s family grow over the years while watching Megan and Carly remain the same loving, compassionate, hilarious people they were when I first met them years ago.

I love this little crew! I’ve known Hannah and David for a long time and they’re some of the nicest people, and Hannah also sends me really quality bat content on Instagram. In addition, their son is obsessed with cats and therefore my best friend. He now also likes dinosaurs and Ghostbusters (!!) and is just an overall delight of a dude. We spent some time taking photos in a beautiful Raleigh park, hiking down to the water to walk on some logs and then circling back to the playground. I, for one, have never seen a child use a slide like this, and am convinced his bones are made of rubber. He would climb up, slide down, literally shoot out and land hard in a type of stuntman roll, and then shoot straight back up and do the whole thing again. He keeps everyone laughing and active and amused, all the while talking about cats. The best!