From wineries to wildlife, Jak Wonderly is no stranger to making photos come alive using light, layout, and composition. But to capture something beautiful in dead animals? It was a new challenge.

Wonderly’s photo, “Caught by Cats,” recently won first place in the 2020 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition’s Human/Nature category. His image highlights a grim picture: The photo would need to be multiplied 10 million times to come close to showing the billions of animals killed by cats each year.

The inspiration for his photograph came from the work of WildCare, a nonprofit wildlife hospital based in San Rafael, California. Of the 321 animals that were injured by cats and brought to the center in 2019,