© Simon Menner
Brilio.net/en - In order not to be seen by the intended target, a great sniper has to have two qualities: great shooting skills and mastery in art of blending in with their surroundings.
Fact is, most of military snipers are incredibly skilled at the latter, as a German artist Simon Menner recently found out.
The snipers often blend into their surroundings extremely well, that theyre hard to be seen, even if you have very keen eyes and know where to look.
Recently, Menner was granted permission to take photographs of German Army snipers as they were camouflaged by the surroundings in several landscapes. What he captured on film was the incredible way in which these snipers can make themselves nearly invisible to the naked eye; even during bright daylight.
In these photographs, you may or may not see end of the jutting rifles appears as a rock, or a bush, as the rest of the snipers bodies and equipment are completely camouflaged. Supposing you are in a real battlefield, chances are that if you are close enough to notice them, it's already too late. Trained snipers are capable of accurately shooting targets that are more than a mile away.
In this series of photographs, a sniper is hiding somewhere in the landscape. In some photos, the snipers location is circled in red. Yet it doesnt help so much to find these war chameleons.
Lets see if you have a pair of exceedingly keen eyes.
1. Hint: Find out a small, tan mound right next to the first of two trees on the right. Can you spot him now? Behind the clump of foliage is a well-trained killer.
2. Hint: Find a small hill to the left of the trees.
3. Hint: He is quietly waiting in the array of pine trees in the center of the photo.
4. Hint: He is pointing his rifle directly at you from the back of the foreground rocks.
5. Hint: A deadly combination of a sniper and a rifle; theyre hiding in the tree if you can spot them. See? A sniper even doesnt have to lay his feet on the ground to be a deadly killing machine.
6. Hint: He is somewhere under of a tree on the right side of the photo.
7. Hint: The sniper is hiding in a clump of foliage in the center of the photo.
8. Hint: He is below the branches that are jutting out into the center of the photo.
9. Hint: The sharpshooter is hiding amongst the rocks on the left of the photo.
10. Hint: He is camouflaged near the curved tree trunk in the center of the photo.
11. Hint: Spot him hiding in a bush, just to the right of the trees in the left of the photo.
12. Hint: The deadly sniper is disguised in the foreground grass.
13. Hint: The silent assassin is hiding to the right of the tree in the foreground of the photo.
14. Here is the man! He looked like a rock, with a human face.
Source:Daily Mail
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