"I traveled to Kenya and captured this powerful image to convey the plight of the southern white rhino"

Silhouette of rhino in a forest with golden light filtering through the canopy .

It’s certainly not hard to see why Rahul Sachdev’s (@rahulsphotography) superb photograph of a southern white rhino, silhouetted by rays of golden light, won first prize in the Hamdan International Photography Award’s (@hipaae) ‘General – colour’ category.

Rahul, who is an ambassador for Canon Asia, captured the jaw-dropping image, entitled ‘Resilience’, using his Canon EOS R5 and Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1 IS USM lens. He told me: “I feel the 100-500mm is my go-to lens for most of my work. I recently shifted to the Canon EOS R5 Mark II and I love that camera, too.”