To highlight the ability of trained snipers to conceal themselves from their target, photographer Simon Menner invited the German army’s best to point their guns directly at his camera for a series of photographs that finds them hiding from your view.

Shot, for want of a better word, across the woodlands and Alps of Germany, the snipers in the pictures are a mixture of trainees and the elite. Having spent upwards of a thousand hours stalking their prey and conditioning themselves to conceal their every movement, they’ve been trained to not be the last thing you would ever see. In fact, if you were ever to be as close to a real army sniper as you are in these photos, chances are you'd've been in their cross hairs for more than 15 minutes already. 

Look through the images and see if you can spot the snipers, and scroll down to the end to find out where they are:

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[All Images: Simon Menner]

Solutions:

1. The sniper is positioned behind the bigger boulder in the lower left corner.
2. The sniper is in the fir tree scrub on the right. 
3. The sniper is on the right, below the small trees in the foreground, behind the grass.
4. The sniper is located behind the sapling in the centre-left of the image. 
5. The sniper is hiding right of the small path. Slightly uphill inside the small bushes.
6. The sniper is hiding on the far right side of the group of trees just outside the shadow.
7. The sniper is standing upright in the small fir tree to the left.
8. The sniper is behind the small tree on the left with the curved trunk, hiding under moss.