A photographer explains this shot from his time with the Army in Afghanistan

There is a wonderful portfolio of
photographs by Chase Steely in the first edition of the new magazine, the Pass in Review. He is a soldier
who just decided to take photographs while deployed to Afghanistan, and he
clearly has an eye for it. One limitation of his work, he told the magazine,
was that, "I didn't get many action pictures
because when stuff was going down I was either on the radio or shooting so I
wasn't taking photos."

I asked for a shot Steely considers representative of his work,
and he picked the one you see here. He explained: "I like to capture the everyday things,
and bring a sense of what it is like to be a soldier on the day to day. I
wouldn't know where to begin if I had to pose people and shoot traditional
style portraits. I like to just walk along and shoot as if no one knows I'm there."

His work is compiled in a self-published book titled The Longest Year: A
Photograph­ic Journey. It is a great
visual account of one unit's tour.