Category

Water Life

Location

Portland, Dorset, UK

Gear

Sony A7R IV, Sony 28-60 lens, Nauticam housing and wet wide angle lens

Description

Ocean drifter is a football covered with Goose barnacles below the waterline and just the ordinary football visible above the waterline. Goose barnacles are not native to the UK and the football would have been lost at sea and spent some time in the tropics before ending up washed to the UK in a storm. The ball was washed up and then returned to the sea for the image to be taken. The intention of the image was to do a split shot above and below the waterline to show what was hidden below. The fact that this ball was lost and sea as rubbish and then colonized by these amazing barnacles was fascinating but also sad that there home was discarded rubbish. We often look for items washed up in the storms for far away creatures and it is quite apparent that it is not just barnacles coming over. Other species have been found drifitng accross. With more rubbish in the sea, could this bring unwelcome travellers. Goose barnacles can't survive for long in the UKs cold water but perhaps other creatures could. Sony A7R IV, Sony 28-60 lens, Nauticam housing and wet wide angle lens. Lit with two off Inon Z330 strobes. f7.1 1/200 ISO-80

Photographer

Ryan Stalker

Social Media

Instagram: ryanstalker9

Facebook: Ryan Stalker

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