MARCH 2007 – The historic fish trawler ‘Pornstrom TÖN4’ in Tönning, Germany. Photo © Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com
The story behind the image
In 2007 we visited the North Sea coast in Germany. We picked up our rental car in Hamburg and drove to St. Peter Ording, a popular summer destination with magnificent beaches and stunning stilted buildings.
On our way towards St. Peter we stopped by in Tönning, a beautiful historic town at the river Eider which is close enough to the North Sea to operate a harbour.
When we entered the town we passed this historic fish trawler from Tönning – the Pornstrom TÖN4 – which was located on a meadow near the Eider. It had been gifted to the state of Schleswig-Holstein in 1993 and got restored and put on permanent exhibition in Tönning.
It shows the deep link of Tönning to fishery and acts as a reminder of the hard daily work of the crews that set out to the North Sea to catch crabs and fish. There still are a couple of ships active in Tönning that can be watched around noon when they return with their catch.
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The high resolution image
| Capture Date & Time | 24-MAR-2007, 12:24 |
| Location | Tönning, Germany |
| Camera | Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II |
| Lens | Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM |
| ISO | 100 |
| Exposure | 1/125 sec at f/14 |
| Digital Image Source Format | Canon Camera RAW (CR2) |
| Edited Image Format | JPEG, 24 bits/pixel, sRGB |
| Edited Image Dimensions | 3328 x 4992 Pixels |
| Copyright | © by Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com |
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