In Pictures

Sunrise over Zangal [Picture: Lance Corporal Martin Goodright, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]

A dog sleeps on the banks of the Helmand River [Picture: Lance Corporal Martin Goodright, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]

Lance Corporal Martin Goodright hunkers down in the long grass [Picture: Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]

Sunset on the poppy harvest [Picture: Lance Corporal Martin Goodright, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]

A dragonfly perches delicately on a taut nylon cord in Helmand province [Picture: Lance Corporal Martin Goodright, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]

Territorial Army soldier Lance Corporal Martin Goodright in Afghanistan [Picture: Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]

A dragonfly takes a break from flight to bask in the southern Afghan sun [Picture: Lance Corporal Martin Goodright, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]

A resplendent sky [Picture: Lance Corporal Martin Goodright, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]

Sunflower [Picture: Lance Corporal Martin Goodright, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]

Sunflowers in Sayedabad [Picture: Lance Corporal Martin Goodright, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]

A wild flower soaks up the sunshine in Helmand [Picture: Lance Corporal Martin Goodright, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]

Poppy field [Picture: Lance Corporal Martin Goodright, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]

The morning sun emerges from behind the mountains surrounding Kandahar Airfield [Picture: Lance Corporal Martin Goodright, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]