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Soldiers duck behind a wall of sandbags during a training exercise in the hills of Kenya.
As one turns to shout an order, his expression is captured through the lens of Cosford-based Army photographer Sergeant Deklan Traylor.
Meanwhile Corporal Sam Jenkins, also based at RAF Cosford, points his camera at soldiers training for combat in built-up areas. Other images freezing in time the harrowing scenes during bayonet training.
Their pictures have now been recognised in an annual Army photography competition.
Sergeant Traylor, 28, was awarded first place in the Professional Soldiering category of the Army Photographic Competition 2018 for his striking image of Exercise Askari Storm, an infantry based exercise in Kenya.
He was born in Llandrindod Wells and went to Church Stretton Secondary School and Ludlow College.
“Whilst out there we had particularly bad weather with a lot of storms and torrential rain between spells of blistering hot sun," said Sergeant Traylor.
“The photo was taken on a live firing range in the middle of the exercise. During live firing you are restricted on movement so that you are not in the line of fire.
"I took this shot to try and show the emotion and dedication of British soldiers.”
Sergeant Traylor, of the Royal Logistic Corps, was posted to Donnington based 11 Signal and West Midlands Brigade as an Army photographer.
Then, earlier this year, he was posted to an instructor role at the Defence School of Photography based at RAF Cosford, training the next generation of Army photographers.
He added: “I got married to my long-time partner, Ashlea, in May so it hasn’t been a bad year for me so far!”
Corporal Jenkins, 29, from Keighley in West Yorkshire, is a student on the course at Cosford.
He was awarded first place in the Amateur Soldiering and Portfolio categories.
Corporal Jenkins' winning image in the Amateur Soldiering category, ‘Room Clear’, shows soldiers training for fighting in built-up areas.
In the Portfolio category his images showed recruits conducting bayonet training and an Army downhill mountain biker taking part in a tri-service (Army, Navy and RAF) competition.
He said: “I’m very pleased to have won not just one, but two, prizes in this competition, especially because I was judged against my peers where the standard of photographs is so high.”
The Awards Ceremony for the Army Photographic Competition was held yesterday at the Imperial War Museum in London.
