/ 2025 / Nature / Domestic Animals

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Evelien Geldens, Netherlands

Photographed at a competition day where over 50 horses thundered through the rain, Battalion captures not the spectacle of performance, but the presence beneath it.

As the storm answered the days charged energy, these two stood in stillness, not to compete but to endure. It is a portrait of power, forged in silence and soaked in resilience.

Taken, 08-06-2025, Boyd Exell Arena, Borkel en Schaft, Holland