A professional photographer has combined her love for horses with the stunning natural backdrop of her chosen home, Iceland, in a mesmerizing photo series where nature and animal augment one another’s beauty.
Born and raised in Helsinki, Finland, Petra Marita Leifsdóttir is in her early thirties and living and working in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavík.
Petra Marita Leifsdóttir with one of the horses. (Courtesy of Petra Marita)
The Icelandic Horse
Horse-enthusiast Petra has been drawing and painting since childhood. She was gifted her first digital camera at the age of 13 and that, she said, opened up a big world for her. She soon began to take pictures of her friends and her family horses, not imagining that in the future she would merge these two interests into a career….