rangitoto
Have you ever gazed at Rangitoto and wondered...
Rangitoto How it got its shape?
Was it a very explosive beginning?
And will it erupt again?

Rangitoto: Te Toka tu moana, The rock standing in the ocean tells the dramatic story of Auckland's most dramatic icon – its birth, the kaka bird's connection to Rangitoto, the imprint of humans on its fragile wildlife, and how the island's guardians are saving it today.

Available from May 2009
ISBN 978 014 350334 7
RRP $19.95
Puffin, Penguin Group NZ Ltd
Available from all good book stores!


Illustrator/Designer Note
Rangitoto, combines digital photographs and acrylic illustration. Originally my intention was to use just illustration. After making many visits to Rangitoto to photograph moss, plants, trees and the island. I felt that some of best images needed to be used in the book, so I decided to merge the two mediums. I used illustration where the photos were not of a reproduction quality or where I had used photos as reference for illustration. The illustrations were painted 150% larger than the finished book size. After being scanned, they were put together with the photos in Photoshop, before being placed with the text in InDesign.

I would like to thank Maria Gill (author) for her assistance in directing me to find the references that I needed for the book. She also supplied me with some of the bird photographs, and the one of Ditch (DOC Ranger) holding the dead rat.
See Maria's site for more on Rangitoto.

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