Design Production for Digital//Top 10//Library Resources.

Searching for other types of secondary resource imagery, I decided to visit my local library to find out more information on penguins. Sadly, living in a small town, the library was less than brimming with literature, but I managed to source two great finds for both visual imagery and factual information:

- LIFE

- PLANET EARTH: the photographs

(Images featured below)

Of course, the content and context of these books are for a more mature, sophisticated adult audience- someone that perhaps would have seen the original televised documentaries (as narrated and presented by David Attenborough) and wanted to find out a little more about specific areas, or to relive the documentary as a whole. The images featured below (photographed from the book) are some of my key finds, and helpful information/images to relate to my chosen 'penguin' subject matter/theme.

LIFE

By Martha Holmes & Michael Gunton

- "A chinstrap revealing wings adapted as flippers and plumage designed for a life in a cold sea. It's feathers are tightly packed and overlapping, providing a waterproof layer over downy undershafts that trap air for insulation."

- "A chinstrap delivering krill to one of it's fast-growing pair of chicks. To gather enough for the chicks to fledge before the Antarctic freeze requires a huge amount of effort by both parents."

- "The chinstrap colony on the caldera rim at Baily Head on Deception Island. Volcanic heat makes it the ideal snow-free nest site for an early start to breeding, but the climb to the top is a test of endurance."

- "Preparing for the plunge. The chinstraps have reason to be wary. To get to their offshore feeding grounds, they must run a gauntlet of leopard seals, which will pick of adults, but especially inexperienced adolescents."

- "Taking the plunge, Chinstraps have the greatest chance of escaping predators when they swim under the water rather than scramble through broken ice. An experienced adult can outswim a leopard seal."

- "A leopard seal toying with a young chinstrap, making the most of easy pickings on the edge of the colony."

- "Young chinstraps about to take the plunge."

- "A youngster attempting to struggle over brash ice rather than under it- a fatal move if a leopard seal is nearby."

- "A leopard seal playing with it's prey for just a few minutes before the kill."

PLANET EARTH: the photographs

- "EMPEROR HUDDLE//Shafts of spring sunlight touch a huddle of emperor penguins. Male emperors survive up to four months of winter by huddling- shuffling position so everyone gets a turn in the middle. The Planet Earth team overwintered with them to get shots of their ordeal."

- "SOUTHERN LIGHTS, MIDWINTER//Male emperors huddle beneath a shimmering curtain of light. The aurora australis is caused by electrons from the sun breaking through the Earth's magnetic field, which is weak at the poles, and clashing with atoms in the upper atmosphere."

- "ADELIE TAKE OFF//Adelies gather at the ice edge before taking the plunge, aware that a leopard seal may lurk below. One of the only four species of penguin that regularly breed on the Antarctic continent, it depends on the abundance of the shrimp-like krill, as do so many other Antarctic animals."

- "It's got much milder in the Antarctic peninsula. Glaciers have retreated, it's greener, and some of the penguins are changing their behaviour"//ALISTAIR FOTHERGILL."

- "EMPEROR AT THE ICE EDGE//A 'jade' iceberg provides a backdrop for an emperor. Green ice originates from the base of icebergs where enormous pressure over time forces out the air bubbles (which make ice appear white) and turn it a vibrant green.

- "DEATH OF A KING//A bull fur seal chases down a king penguin. Only on the remote sub- antarctic island of Marion have fur seals learnt to prey on king penguins by ambushing them in the surf".