The Knickerbocker Ice Festival, featuring larger than life art work from nationally renowned ice sculptors, made a slightly delayed but triumphant return to Rockland State Park this winter.
Originally slated to started on January 24, the festival organizers wisely waited out the snow storm that weekend and held it the following weekend, January 31 and February 1. The festival, hosted by the Rockland Business Association, was designed to celebrate the area’s rich ice making history and bring people together.
“Just as no fine dining establishment or hotel during New York City’s Gilded Era would serve anything other than Knickerbocker Ice from Rockland Lake,” it read in a press release for the event, “no smart Hudson Valley resident of today should pass up the chance to shed their winter blues and show some genuine warmth for each other.”
Our Ice Queen photographer Andrea Swenson gorgeously captured all the freshly cut art and frigid frolicking in our latest Photo Shoot! (Scroll down for more photos and a full slideshow.)
Scenes From the Shoot
Slideshow: The Big Finale
Click on the arrows below to flip through all of Andrea’s photos from the event. Enjoy the show!
See more of Andrea’s recent Photo Shoots here and find even more of her outstanding work on Instagram.