At age 49, Betsy Bird still considers herself a “horse girl” at heart.
The Ooltewah mother of three has a love for horses that she believes resides in her genes. Being a self-avowed horse girl is not a young person’s hobby that dissipates with age, she says.
“I spend a lot of time with horses,” says Bird. “They are my therapy.”
And also her livelihood.
Bird is a horse photographer. Well-known in the Chattanooga-area equestrian community, she has made a niche career out of photographing other horse girls, creating art-quality portraits of local horses and their owners and helping people decorate their homes with her photographs.