A modern sailing boat meets the time-honoured pilot schooner "Atalanta" moored at the pier. Built in 1901 at the Peterswerft shipyard in Wewelsfleth as the Cuxhaven and renamed Atalanta in 1930, she has been in service in the Hanseatic city of Wismar since 2001. Wismar's Old Harbour is her home. The passing sailor is one of many that the Atalanta has already seen in its long life. It is leaving the Wismar harbour area via Wismar Bay with its own destination.
Holger Felix, born 1959, photographer from Wismar, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. I have been taking pictures since I was seven years old. I started with a simple roll film camera in b/w, model Pouva Start from 1952. In my late youth I got my first analog SLR camera. Today.. Read more…