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.

Brandrew Have A Baby

Pennsylvania’s very own Brandrew is back on the blog! Well, Ohio’s very own I guess. Brandrew (Brandy and Andrew, respectively, although I’ve given up trying to call either one of them by their correct names because for whatever reason my brain has decided to run the two permanently together) used to live in Pennsylvania, but have since moved to Ohio for Andrew’s job. During the session at Andrew’s parents’ house in Pennsylvania, we had a conversation that went like this (Brandy and I went to high school together):

Me: Brandy, I miss youuuu!
Brandy: I knowww, I miss you too! I wish you still lived here.
Me: But Brandy, you don’t even live here.
Brandy: … (really sad face)… I know. :(

:) I don’t normally do maternity sessions, but Geoff and I shot Brandrew’s engagement and their wedding, and instead of a traditional maternity shoot, they really just wanted pictures of the two of them and their pup Cody while Brandy just happened to be pregnant. Cody likes to growl at anyone who comes near Brandy now, but I quickly won him over by talking to him about squirrels and chipmunks, and then we were best friends. Brandy and Andrew are having a baby girl, named Eliza, in March. I’ll then have to think of another name combination. Maybe Brandriza. Or Ebrandrew. I’ll think about it.

Gabby + Mike + Evan + Olive + Max

Remember these guys from last year?! They’re back, and I couldn’t be happier to document them again exactly one year later in the same spot with Gabby (mom), Mike (dad), and Max (dog) looking pretty much the same but the kids a lot taller and with longer hair and a newfound love for plastic dinosaurs (this is why they’re my clients). All four of them had on cute shoes. Max didn’t have on cute shoes, but he had a cool skull and crossbones leash. Gabby and I determined that we both bought the same jeans at Old Navy because they’re supposed to be clam-digger height on normal humans but they’re regular jean length on us, and we’re really happy about that because we don’t have to hem them. Their ever-faithful and awesome neighbor ChaCha came with us to wrangle Max and help block out light with her sweater and tell me about gluten-free things. We all romped around the woods, made a bunch of ridiculous faces, and ran around until Olive puked. Then we removed the puked on sweater and continued. All in a day’s work.

The Perry Family: Portraits in Raleigh, NC

You’ll recognize a lot of their names.

Steve Perry… Katie Perry… Matthew Perry.

And then there will be some names you won’t recognize: Kathleen, Devon, Jim, Lauren, and Hayden.

But even if you recognize the first three names listed, you probably won’t associate these faces with them. ;) The Perry Family just happens to have some very popular names. All of which, mind you, came into being before the famous person did. :P

So meet the Perrys! Kathleen (blue and white dress) and I worked together back in the day. And by “worked together” I mean I just basically gave Kathleen a hard time. :) But she still likes me anyway so I was very excited to get the chance to meet and photograph her wonderful family of her mom, dad, brothers, sister-in-law, and two hilarious and gorgeous nieces. They’re a good-looking crew. And they’re all equally as awesome as Kathleen and we had a great time working with them! I was kind of tempted to burst into Journey songs the whole time because of her dad, but I restrained myself. Geoff tagged along  to occasionally shoot but mostly make little girls smile (I think it’s the beard). Lauren, the littlest one, alternated between crying at me and smiling at Geoff for most of the session. Go figure, right? He’s a ladies man.