Hello o the crowd,

first a remark to my age. The deadline of the last contest (topic “dinosaurs”) was (German Time) at the early morning of the 17th of October 2011, my 50th birthday. Due to personal reasons I could only contribute a kind of WIP to the contest and earned last place, but to speak the truth, I was really happy to have a WIP ripe enough to have a contribution at all and I acknowledge that the other competitors were really better this round. Seeing all the other images I only hoped for the 7th place…

I have revealed my age already, now to my profession(s): In my youth I learned the job of a male nurse at the university hospital of Essen and worked there one year at a cardiologic intensive care station after the exam. The next three years I went back to school to make my “abitur”, which is a bit comparable to the a-level in Britain. I worked again a while at the university hospital, this time at the hematology, where I had to put some hundred very young people (16 to 25 of age) into coffins in the time of one year only. An experience I cannot forget for the rest of my life and which led me to another view of the worth of life.
After that I studied math, computer sciences and especially statistics. Now I’m working as a statistician in the German Health Insurance, evaluating the economic benefit of prevention incentive schemes. Not in all, but in the most cases I find as a researcher that prevention incentive schemes yield a better health in people which is much more pleasant than putting 17th years old boys or girls in coffins.
I rediscovered POV a while ago, rendered nearly all the codes of the irtc to learn from and now started to create my own pictures.

After living over 47 year at Essen I now live at Darmstadt, Germany since 2 and a half year.

Regards,
Michael