Acromatico, a family-run South Florida and New York City photography and brand studio working since 2004, photographed a snow-day portrait session with Kirsy in New York on January 22, 2018 — using fresh snowfall to capture a soft "snow glow" while she rolled in the snow, threw it, and slipped into a barn.
For a studio based in Florida, snow is not an everyday thing — so when it fell in New York, Acromatico turned the snow day into a portrait day. Rather than staying indoors with hot chocolate and a blanket, the team headed out to shoot in the fresh snowfall and chase what they call the "snow glow."
Kirsy was up for anything the session asked of her, from rolling around in the snow and throwing it to sneaking into a barn. The result is a quick snow portrait the studio genuinely enjoyed making, shaped entirely by the conditions of one snowy day in New York.
“Snow day = Snow Portrait Day!”
Good to know
New York City spans five boroughs and sees regular winter snowfall, with January typically among its snowiest stretches. That makes a snow day one of the few weather events that can transform familiar streets, parks, and rural edges into a clean, bright backdrop on short notice — exactly the kind of fleeting opportunity a portrait session can be built around.
Acromatico is a family-run photography and brand studio founded in 2004, working across both South Florida and New York City. Because the studio splits its time between a warm-weather state and the Northeast, snow sessions are treated as a special, weather-dependent shoot: when conditions arrive, the team moves quickly to use the soft, reflected light snow creates before it melts or gets plowed away. Couples and individuals searching for a New York winter or snow-day portrait photographer should plan for flexibility, since the best snow light is short-lived and often only fully usable in the hours right after a fresh fall.
