A photo of a football covered in goose barnacles below the waterline was the overall winner of this year's British Wildlife Photography Awards. Ryan Stalker, who took the photo, said that the ball had washed up in Dorset, U.K., after crossing the Atlantic. A football floats on the surface of the Atlantic Sea; it looks like new from above the water, but below a huge collection of barnacles have attached themselves to the ball.
Ryan Stalker, who took the winning image, explains that the goose barnacles attached to the football are not native to the U.K. but sometimes wash up on its shores during Atlantic storms. “Although the ball is waste and should not be in the sea, I do wonder about the journey the ball has been on. From initially being lost, then spending time in the tropics where the barnacles are native and perhaps years in the open ocean before arriving in Dorset,” he said in a press release.
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