Icelandic foals in the dunes of Vlieland, NL 2014
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Juni - July 2014It was summer on Vlieland, 2014. A friend of mine let me breed a foal with one of her mares. He was born at the end of June.
Unfortunately I could not make it in time to photograph the birth, but I went to the island as quickly as I could to meet him and to observe and photograph him with his friends through the rest of that year. The island has its own sounds, wind through grass, the distant sea, the occasional sound of the horn of the ferry in the distance.
Vlieland, Wadden Islands, Netherlands. Vlieland is the second inhabited Wadden Island from the west, with a single village.
Stal Edda Icelandic horse stable on the east side of the island where you can enjoy riding on an icelandic horse. The mares with their foals where in a field more on the middle of the island.
Three mares and their foals moved slowly across the open land, unhurried, each family a small world of its own. I had not expected to see so clearly, in such a small group, how differently three mothers could be. One kept her foal close, turning to check with every few steps. Another moved ahead and waited, letting the foal find its own way back to her. The foals were three different characters too, a joy to watch, discovering the world and learning. I always stayed longer than I had planned. The light kept changing and so did they.
I just loved watching them.
Thank you Krista - Stal Edda, for allowing me to breed a foal with your mare and to spend time among the mares and foals in the pasture to observe and photograph them.
