AUGUST 2025 – At sunrise time, a seagull stands on a rock and watches the water at the beach of Grömitz in Germany. Photo © Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com
The story behind the image
Sunrise time at the beach is almost always a safe bet for some nice (if not stunning) images. Here’s a sunrise I experienced last year in Grömitz in Germany at the Baltic Sea. Grömitz is a village between Oldenburg i. Holstein and Lübeck and has a long history as a beach destination.
That morning I took the camera bag and spent some time at the beach to enjoy the silence of the maritime experience. For this image I picked my workhorse, the tremendous Canon EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM lens and selected an aperture of f/4 as the depth of field was already pretty narrow. I wanted to capture the seagull as a silhouette with the long sea pier and the dramatic clouds in the back – and it worked!
The image, by the way, is straight from the original JPEG of the camera with no edits whatsoever. I just resized and applied the watermark. (I still have the RAW but did not see any need for editing.)
Lovely.
The high resolution image
| Capture Date & Time | 22-AUG-2025, 06:25 |
| Location | Grömitz, Germany |
| Camera | Canon EOS 1D Mark IV |
| Lens | Canon EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM |
| ISO | 800 |
| Exposure | 1/3200 sec at f/4 |
| Digital Image Source Format | JPEG, 24 bits/pixel, sRGB |
| Edited Image Format | JPEG, 24 bits/pixel, sRGB |
| Edited Image Dimensions | 4896 x 3264 Pixels |
| Copyright | © by Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com |
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