Paula and Roy had their engagement session at Blue Hill Farm at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills, New York, photographed by Acromatico. The couple, who met at school and have been together ever since, got engaged in July on their 10-year anniversary and booked the session overnight.
Paula and Roy chose Blue Hill at Stone Barns in New York for their engagement session — a session Acromatico got booked for overnight. The two met at school and have been together ever since, and they got engaged in July, right on the day of their 10-year anniversary. Paula shared her vision for the session's style up front, and from there the day was totally unplanned: the couple went with the flow.
That flow meant jumping on kubotas, driving around the fields, finding wildflowers, catching the sunset, playing with a huge dog and sneaking in with the sheep — picking up plenty of spiders and tiny bugs along the way. As the studio put it, every session is different, every couple is different, and the goal was to capture whatever the day gave in order to tell Paula and Roy's story.
“We jumped on kubotas, drove around fields, found the coolest wild flowers, saw the sickest sunset, played with a HUGE dog, snuck in with the sheep.”
Good to know
Blue Hill at Stone Barns sits in the hamlet of Pocantico Hills, near Tarrytown in Westchester County, New York. It's part of the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, a working farm campus set on rolling fields and pasture in the lower Hudson Valley, roughly an hour north of New York City. The agricultural setting — open fields, grazing livestock and seasonal wildflowers — is exactly what made it work for an unscripted, roam-the-land engagement session like Paula and Roy's.
A working agricultural property rewards flexibility. Pasture access, livestock and field conditions shift with the season and the day, so a loose, go-with-the-flow plan tends to capture more than a rigid shot list. Comfortable footwear and clothes you don't mind getting a little wild in are practical for fields, farm vehicles and tall grass. Westchester's proximity to Manhattan also makes the Pocantico Hills area reachable for NYC-based couples without a long drive.
