“Horses are very honest and pure. They have a calming effect on me. They respond to feelings,” says Instagrammer Linda Heidema (@lindalaughs), who aims to convey human emotions and expressions through her photos of horses. Once a week, Linda gets four hours away from her hectic life as a mother and youth justice officer in Groningen, Holland, and drives out to the countryside to photograph animals in the meadow. “I sit down on the ground and let their curiosity take over. Horses are very sensitive and curious animals, sometimes they ignore me totally. I want people to feel something and I try to make the picture calming because it’s also calming for me.” For more of Linda's tips on how to photograph horses, visit blog.instagram.com and follow @lindalaughs.
Photo by @lindalaughs