Striking, majestic and utterly alone, a white rhino strolls across the grassy fringes of the Solio Lodge wildlife reserve in Kenya.
In another intimate shot, a black rhino and her calf are caught feeding together in the Lewa conservancy.
Further south in the country, in Tsavo West National Park, a black rhino grazes by night, framed by rolling hills and bathed in moonlight.
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These powerful images are among the highlights of the latest wildlife photo series by British photographer Will Burrard-Lucas.
Burrard-Lucas travelled across Kenya, using a long telephoto lens (and sometimes his own homemade cameras) to capture intimate, close-up portraits of these vanishing creatures.
Black rhinos are listed as "critically endangered" on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species. Southern white rhinos, brought to Kenya to help reduce the risk of extinction, are classed as "near threatened".
Burrard-Lucas set out to photograph rhinos in a way that his conservation partners, including the Borana Conservancy, the Tsavo Trust (both non-profit organisations based in Kenya) and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), could use to protect these animals.
Intimate Moments
White rhinos are "quite sociable animals", Burrard-Lucas says. Black rhinos, however, he found to be "very shy and elusive".
These animals also prefer the cover of night, so the photographer spent a month setting up his "Camtraptions" camera traps across Tsavo West National Park, hoping to capture black rhinos grazing and drinking.
"I worked with the conservationists to figure out where to place my cameras, and then I photographed these rhinos as they came down to the water at night," Burrard-Lucas says.
For the tender shot of rhinos feeding in the Lewa conservancy, Burrard-Lucas crouched beside his car and used a long telephoto lens.
"It's a completely different experience to actually be able to see them while I'm photographing them," he says. "It was wonderful to be able to watch this calf and its mother going about their daily lives."
Burrard-Lucas, who says his love of wildlife photography stems from time spent in Tanzania as a child, has previously published striking images of a rare black leopard and a "big-tusked" elephant in Kenya.
He is now working on a book showcasing his photographs of black leopards, due to be published in 2020.
