The european bison, also known as wisent, or the european wood bison.
The last free living wisent in Germany was killed 1755.
In Germany  a herd of eight wisents was released into nature in April 2013.
The wisent shown here is living with some more in the “Wildpark Weilburg”.
Up to now there are 500 Wisents  living in several wild parks in Germany.

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This picture was taken during German Army training march,
where the soldiers are faced with different and randomized types of combat situations.
The situation here was this, grenade impact (terrible loud), finding a wounded person,
giving first aid, controlled by two military physicians, who had to score the work.
So it looks more cruel than it was, I took the picture in the moment
she (medical staff sergeant) was acting to collapse.

More of my images can be seen at – The Things As They Are In Pictures

More of my images can be seen at – The Things As They Are In Pictures

Picture taken during a maneuver ( military exercise ),
where my only official mission was to ” shoot ” ( with camera ).
I made nearly 2000 Photos, but 1990 are classified “Restricted”,
some were censored or deleted by higher authority, what is really sad, cause …

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 This picture was again by pure chance and it was shot again in the Bird´s mountains. I was there with my dogs, when we stepped out the forest and this is what we saw. I didn’t think the dogs would mind me stopping to capture this image.

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