In photos: Trash transformed into sea life in stunning shot

Page 1, ***2: Page 1, page 1, page 2 Beyond the drifting Ophelia medustica from Gronshawn, Cove, Ireland The specimen collected from the Glounthaune shoreline was made from a baby wheel. (Mandy Barker)

Artist Mandy Barker used her talent as a photographer to capture some of the ocean flotsam and jetsam, such as pram wheels, a toy horse, burnt plastic flowers and six packaging rings. and transform them into plankton-like sea creatures. An exhibition of Buck's art will be published in the book Overlapse: Animals Not Completely Known (forthcoming May 2017).

Here, the specimen 'Ophelia medustica' from the Gronshawn coastline in Cork Bay, Ireland, was made from a cart wheel. Nebula Nebula Disk Mercury, collected from the Carrigaroy Estuary in Cork Bay, Ireland, consists of a group of partially burnt flowers. (Mandy Barker) The Plauro *** artic nebula, collected from the Carrigaloe Estuary in Cork Bay, Ireland, consists of a group of partially burnt flowers.

Beautiful plankton Plamacina retroversta ic. 3. Another scene of a white plastic horse transformed into a floating patch of plankton. (?Mandy Barker)

Plamacina retroversta ic. 3. Another view of the white plastic horse transformed into a floating piece of plankton. Burnt Flowers Pleurotus, a peculiar plankton type formed from partially burnt plastic flowers collected from the Carrigaro Estuary in Cork Bay, Ireland. (Mandy Barker)

Platybrachia, a peculiar plankton, formed from partially burnt plastic flowers collected from the Carrigaloy Estuary in the Bay of Cork, Ireland. Plastic Horse Plamacina retroversta ic. 1. A specimen collected from the Cobb coastline in Cork Bay, Ireland, originally a white plastic horse, Mandy Buck

Plamacina retroversta ic. 1. A specimen collected from the Cobb coastline in Cork Bay, Ireland, was originally a white plastic horse 6-pack ring copepod. A specimen collected from Roche Point, Cork Bay, Ireland, was originally a 6-pack plastic ring. (Mandy Barker)

Copeopod langisticus, a specimen collected from Roche's Point in Cork Bay, Ireland, began as a six-pack of plastic rings. Barbie beauty Plividas chloroticus. In a past life, this sea creature was the arm of a Barbie doll found on Fota Island in Cork Bay, Ireland. (?Mandy Barker)

Chlamydia. In a past life, this sea creature used to be the arm of a Barbie doll found on Fota Island in Cork Bay, Ireland. The wheel phoroniasteri crae, collected from Whitepoint on the Cobb coastline in Cork Bay, Ireland, was once a tricycle wheel. (Mandy Barker) Collection of Phoronilasteri crae, once a tricycle wheel, at Whitepoint, Cobh coastline, Cobh, Ireland

Weird Creatures Dinoplage stellices, once a mobile phone case, has been transformed into a magical sea creature. (Mandy Barker)

The stone tablet, once a cell phone box, has been transformed into a magical sea creature. Sole The Olefield gold stone, collected on the coast of Blackrock, Cork Bay, Ireland, was once a simple sole. (Mandy Barker) Collected from the shoreline of Blackrock, Bay of Cork, Ireland

Aurelipa auristice was once a rudimentary sole, charged Heplandista ica, collected from the mouth of the Carrigaloe Estuary, Bay of Cork, Ireland, via a Electric plugs and cords, transformed into a strange species of plankton. (Mandy Barker)

Heplandista ica was collected from the Carrigaloy Estuary in Cork Bay, Ireland, and transformed into a bizarre plankton by using a wire plug.

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