AUGUST 2025 – Fireworks explode over the sea pier in Grömitz, Germany, on a clear summer night. © Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com
The story behind the image
Two weeks ago we spent the evening at the beach in Grömitz in Germany to enjoy a huge party at the beach promenade. The topic of the party was Ostsee in Flammen (“Baltic Sea in Flames”) which attracted not just visitors from the area but from all over northern Germany. The community had provided extra parking lots on the harvested corn fields near Grömitz to take up the masses of cars!
The biggest highlight, and namegiver of the party, were the fireworks over the Baltic Sea. I had brought a tripod and the remote controller and timer Canon TC-80N3. I placed the tripod and camera on our beach chair which was challenging easy (as it is forbidded to climb onto the beach chairs) and did a couple of test shots to adjust the frame.
And then we waited for the fireworks.
I set the camera to manual mode with an exposure time of 14 seconds at f/22. Of course, I tried to get the rhythm of the explosions so I could capture a major explosion over the pier.
The result? Several awesome shots of the explosions over the pier.
Lovely.
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The high resolution image
| Capture Date & Time | 29-AUG-2025, 22:55 |
| Location | Grömitz, Germany |
| Camera | Canon EOS 1D Mark IV |
| Lens | Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM |
| ISO | 400 |
| Exposure | 14 sec at f/20 |
| Digital Image Source Format | Canon Camera RAW (CR2) |
| Edited Image Format | JPEG, 24 bits/pixel, sRGB |
| Edited Image Dimensions | 3829 x 3221 Pixels |
| Copyright | © by Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com |
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