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A Speckled Bush cricket after dark doing what bush crickets do. Being a working guy with a regular job during the week, it means you have to find creative ways of increasing your macro photography time. During the summer it's not so much of a problem because obviously it's still light after all the chores like cooking, putting children to bed & washing up have been done, but as autumn approaches it starts to get dark earlier. So one of the things I do is go out in the dark and look on hedgerows, leaves and flowers for stuff to take macro photos of. It's a bit harder than daytime macro I think because focusing is a tad trickier, but certainly doable if like me you've put together a rig for the purpose. Which I have - it has a torch attached to the camera to be able to (almost) see what you're doing.
Anyhow I got lucky because there was this cricket pottering about on the top of a sycamore 'bush' (should be a tree but it's in the hedge so it got lopped). And, with this photo's title of eek, you'd be forgiven for supposing that the cricket is looking straight at the camera thinking 'EEK'. Yet it's probably not... but it gives the appearance of doing so only because of the structure of its eyes. Like moths and crane flies their eyes basically have lots of tubes on the outer surface of the sphere leading down to a business end. So if you look at it straight on you can see down to the bottom (dark in this case) but where the angle doesn't let you see all the way down to the bottom you're just seeing the sides of the 'tubes'. Which means it makes it look as if its looking at you from any angle. Even when it's not. Good for photos =)
On the other hand there's also a downside with trying to do a photo of a cricket, they have freaky long antenna. Bottom line it means there's always going to be some body part going out of focus and I don't know about you but that makes it a tricky composition decision for me.
A 'win' from this photo was a first try of (yet another) diffuser tweak. Considering these can be somewhat shiny subjects I think the diffuser handled it rather well. The green one below had the potential for a lot of reflections and specularity but I think this handled it well. Fyi, I changed what I'm using, to two sheets of vellum paper. This is like double thickness tracing paper. Seems to let a lot of light through but still be diffused, better than tracing paper which I find still gives too much of a hotspot. I also cut 10cm off the diffuser end, V1 of this V shaped version was a little too long. Kept getting in the way. V shaped, with the thin end at the flash and the wide end out in front seems to be working for me -- if you look carefully you'll see that there's some information underneath the cricket which of course comes about because of the wide V at the front, the wide edge means light can get under. Still not quite perfect but pretty nice if you're a bit of a diffuser anorak like me.
This is part of my little ghetto frankenlens mp-e 64 project. For anyone following it, I hope you don't mind but I really don't want to go into any details as I'm still tinkering and I'd rather put up something that's vaguely decent and usable later than something half baked sooner. I seem to still be able to make marginal improvements to the output, once I've completely exhausted my ideas of course I'll go do a writeup. I hope I'm not getting people's hopes up too much though - it's just a bit of a bodge job which seems to work ok for me. It's not the most forgiving of magnification ranges and it's pretty tricky to work with, hence progress is slow.
The diffuser for the mp-e 64 construct is actually the biggest deal at the moment. From what I gather, one of the biggest advantages that mp-e 65 with MT-24EX Twin Lite gives the photographer is that you can go from 1:1 to 5:1 without having to fiddle with settings or adjust flash position and strength... which together of course gives you speed of operation. But, on my thing, 1:2 is about 25cm away and 3:1 is about 10 cm away. So you're trying to find a single right shape and material diffuser to handle the differing amount of light thrown onto subjects. Harder than you might think because at the close end there's a load more light thrown on than the long end. I think I have some ideas but at the end of the day it's trial and error... which takes time.
Biology: this is a Speckled Bush-cricket, Lectophyes punctatissima which is a common species in England. Turns out that seeing it after dark was no accident - that's what they do. Although they're not wingless their wings are a bit small and rubbish so they're flightless. Consequently they take to pootling about on bushes etc just after dark or twilight to go do their thing and hide in bushes during the day to avoid being eaten. The slightly askance pose is typical behaviour when startled. So I'd have to guess that he probably wasn't overly impressed with me taking photos. But a very mellow fellow, he didn't make much effort to jump away.
Technical: single shot with diffused flash on top@1/16. Sharpened in post using MCP sharpening action, no other pp.
Large: farm9.staticflickr.com/8316/7980071930_20b910a959_o.jpg
UPDATE 2014 - I have put together an extreme macro photography learning site to explain the techniques and equipment used for all my macro photos here in Flickr which is now ready. To point to a few of the links that people who want to learn this stuff might like to have a browse of:
Focus Stacking, Focus Stack Preparation, Shooting A Stack, Stack Processing, Stack Post Processing, Schneider Kreuznach Componon 28 mm f/4, Schneider Kreuznach Componon 35 mm f/4, Schneider Kreuznach Componon 80 mm f/4, Nikon El-Nikkor 50 mm f/2.8N, Reject Enlarger Lenses, JML Optical 21 mm f/3.5, 20 mm Microfilm f/2.8, Anybrand MP-E 65 Macro Lens, Manual, TTL, Rear Curtain Sync, Extreme Macro Backgrounds, Single Colour Background, The Gradient Background, Adjustable Flash Shoe Mounts, Extension Tubes, Eyepiece, Field Monitor, Flash Bracket, Focusing Helicoid, Holding Tools, Lens Adapters, M42 Iris, Macro Tripod, Making A Macro Beanbag, Insect Photography
All shots taken in 2004/2005 of the Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island, NYC. See here for my original writeup.
A 16 x 10 x 10 shadowbox underwater scene.
Here's the blog writeup on the making of it: srolfe.com/2013/05/15/mermer/
Easy to hear; less easy to spot. Taken this morning at Boyce Thompson Arboretum.
Check out all of my Species a Day writeups (the rest are coming as soon as I catch up) here.
Not sure on the specific species. Stagmomantis californica or Stagmomantis limbata, maybe? Help me out.
In the meantime, we hatched a bunch of tan mantises. Photos as soon as they're not too teeny tiny.
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Off-Airport - Baltimore
VFW Post 3761
Baltimore, OH
Lockheed SP-2E Neptune (426-45-15) c/n 426-5403, 131522, United States Navy
Transferred to the custody of the VFW Post on May 6, 1982. The post's website has/had an excellent writeup of the aircraft's history, but it's been set to login access only at the moment, so I can't get to it as I write this.
The ocean is a desert, with its life underground,
And the perfect disguise above.
~ "A Horse With No Name" America
This beautiful door is part of a really amazing mural on the side of The Red Road Lodge. The building has gone from being a hotel in the downtown core to housing an art space on the main floor. This place has a very cool history, and my good friend Steve has an excellent writeup it here. www.flickr.com/photos/szacharias/5061896346/
Make of Engine:Scammell
Engine Name:Perseverance
New to Guinness. Sold to Furborough showman of Leicester.
Scammell Showman's Tractor - Beamish Great North Steam Fair 2011.
For more images and a writeup of the event visit the Beamish Transport Blog.
Sureshot transform into a dune buggy .As a robot, he has great articulations.
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I’ve been planning to post some of these because I love them - they’re tiny and, to my eyes, cute, with their dainty pose and tufted legs. I was gearing up to re-do the research on their particular silk in order to do a writeup here when I ran into a good description from Spider Joe Lapp:
“Cribellate webs are interesting. In the case of this species (and probably genus), instead of putting glue silk on the spiral, they lay down a messy swath of cotton-like cribellate silk along the spiral. This silk can be sticky when damp, but it also entangle insects that encounter it. Then to subdue prey, the spider wraps it hundreds of times. As the silk dries, it shrinks, crushing prey. Because uloborids have no venom.”
My dad had just had a tree cut down, and the flying debris made a mess of all the webs in the yard; however, this helps show the cotton-like quality of the web in this photo.
My post 2 of 2 is a glamor shot of one of these beauties.
24 Arachtober 2023, 1 of 2
Feather-legged Spider, Uloborus glomosus
Hixson, TN • 7 October 2022
A surprise visitor today. The Cowbird is a brood parasitic bird. It lays its eggs in the nests of other birds which then hatch and raise the cowbird's young. Excellent writeup in wikipedia.
Male Brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater)
Final post from Montreal before we begin our Europe tour! Last chance to grab a DVD , print or polaroid :) www.indiegogo.com/vonwongdoeseurope
Check out the blog writeup for lighting diagrams, setup shots and more!
www.vonwong.com/blog/epic-medieval-photoshoot/
Also BTS video by Laurence Turcotte-Fraser -http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJYW8GYMJa8
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Another glorious photograph of Les Artisans D'azure this time riding horses generally provided by the lovely Catherine Toussaint. These shots were taken in mid day sunlight so I did my best to overpower the sun with my beautiful Profoto D1's provided by LL Lozeau but unfortunately I couldn't quite get rid of all of the shadows... Bah!!
Shooting with animals was honestly quite a challenge, the horses were really not quite used to crowds and my initial idea of having horses galloping towards me didn't quite work out. Maybe next time! :)
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By this time the sun had finally hidden behind the clouds and I could finally overpower the sun to shoot this group photo. This time around, all elements were actually present (yes, we had people crawling over the roof!). I wanted to try something a little different so I actually shot the whole thing in four seperate shots to create a group panorama. Exploiting the fact that profotos at full power require 7 seconds of retouch time, I shot the subjects farther away first so that they'd be properly exposed and wouldn't expose the heroes closer to us! Friend and retoucher Chester Van Bommel (www.artsome.be) - one of the subjects that we'll be shooting in our Von Wong does Europe tour -www.indiegogo.com/vonwongdoeseurope actually helped put this whole thing together, photoshop & all.
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Two weeks ago, I received a message from one of my fellow photographers Kelso, who told me that the folks over at Les Artisans D'azure were extremely interested in working with me. I've always been a huge medieval buff so I made some time in my crazy schedule and squeezed in a quick visit. When I got there, it was like being a kid in a toy store... I was running around having the time of my life checking out everything they had to offer. By the time I left the store, we had already set a shoot date, found ourselves an awesome location to shoot at as well as developped a vague story. By the evening, after a couple facebook shout-outs, we were at 20 models.
A couple days later, I had assembled my assistants, makeup and video crew. A week later, we had horses confirmed. A couple days after that,LL Lozeau agreed to sponsor about 40,000$ worth of profoto flashes for my shoot. A couple days before the shoot, we were at 55 confirmed participants... Things were going amazingly smoothly...
The day before the photoshoot was a whole different matter... weather forecast announced -3 degrees the day before with snow, hail, 30km/hr winds and general unhappiness all around!!! Myself and a couple others set out to camp out the night before to get in some location scouting and planning and had a merry campfire in the wind, hail and more. Of course, no signal at the medieval village supplied by L'Atelier du Loisir meant that we had no idea how many people were actually going to show up the day of the shoot so we kept fingers crossed while huddling under the blankets.
I was pleasently surprised to see over 80% of the people that had commited actually showed up under the cold rain to join us for this amazing photoshoot. We had the most amazing committed models trudging and shivering through rain and mud just to take a couple epic photographs.
Here's one of those shots.
Be sure to check back soon... Behind the Scenes video by Laurence and her crew coming up soon :)
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Costume Design: Les Artisans d'Azure - www.artisansdazure.com
Samuel Tremblay Gagnon
Marc André Thibault
Steeve Verville
Maxime Turgeon
Genevieve Cotineau
Stephane Normandin
Sponsors:
Calimacil - www.calimacil.com
L'Atelier du Loisir - www.gn.qc.ca
LL Lozeau - Profoto flashes - www.lozeau.com
Makeup:
Jessica Renahan, Lisa-Marie Charron, Patricia Lapointe
Hair: Jazz Hairstylist, Manuelle Lessard
Assist: Allison B., Jessika Chiasson, Nadia Zheng
BTS Photography: Claude Campagna Lupien, Monique Guillbault
Video: Laurence Turcotte-Fraser, Sael Simard
Photoshop: Chester Van Bommel - www.artsome.be
To be able to have an E-locker in the rear I need a full floating rear axle. Land Cruisers (40 series) came factory with one on the FJ45 pickup only. The issue is of course that the axle didn't have an e-brake since it was located on the back of the transfer case. The BJ42 doesn't have that, so I needed to add an e-brake to the FJ45 axle. Not a simple task. The two backing plates are completely different, have different spacing and a different mounting pattern. This required a bit more work. A full writeup will be available soon. In the meantime, here are some pics that give you an idea of what needs to be done.
At the preview for Houston's 2014 Art Car Parade.
Today's Houston Chronicle features a great writeup on the parade, history, etc.:
@sylviavale cosplay as the DC Bombshells version of the Flash / Jesse Quick.
Sunday at WonderCon 2017 (writeup)
Forgot to use this one before -- I'm pretty sure it's a pallid-winged grasshopper nymph.
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As I've mentioned a couple of times in my photostream already, I was lucky enough to borrow a pre-release version of the upcoming Canon Powershot G1X camera for a few hours last week. I've posted a portrait and an outdoor photo earlier. (Visit my blog for a writeup about my initial impressions of it.)
This time I post a composite of a SOOC JPEG file (lower right half) compared to a *very* over processed RAW file (upper left half). It's not meant to tell you neither how good or bad SOOC JPEGs are, nor how good or bad my RAW processing skills are *).
What I want to show by posting it is that the RAW files have plenty of latitude during processing, without becoming plagued by strange noise and artefacts (unlike my Olympus E-PM1 for instance).
I think people who love to fiddle with knobs and levers in Lightroom and similar software will enjoy the RAW files from this camera.
*) I have to admit the SOOC JPEG is closest to reality here, but still I think introducing healthy doses of saturation, contrast and clarity makes the ice more pleasing to look at.
Slick to Full Loadout: Building a Scaleable and Modular Armor System
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An image from the Lightscape Event held at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne, Australia. Photo editing in Lightroom before being processed in topaz Denoise AI and Topaz Sharpen AI.Captured on 6/08/2022 9:11:37 PM with a Sony ILCE-7RM4 and E 28-75mm F2.8-2.8 @ 28 mm, 1/20 sec at ƒ / 2.8, ISO 1250/. More photos and a full writeup at
www.travishale.com/image_repost/lightscape-2022-6/?feed_i...
comparison between my LEGO Transformers creation first and later version of the same character. For more photos and writeups on this journey , click on my blog link below. thank you!
Crosshair from G1 Transformers Cartoon Series transforms into a futuristic buggy.
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Hello all, this last weekend was easily the best weekend I've had in a long time. It was fun, but also equally as exhausting. I got to spend the entire weekend with my girlfriend which is rare because she lives down south and I live near SF.
That being said, you should already know that traveling to Formula Drift was not an easy endeavor. After packing all my photo gear and some clothes I was off to an eight hour drive to my girlfriends house in socal. If you don't already know, I5 is the most boring road ever. Once I got down to socal I was so tired but my girlfriend insisted that we go out to eat at Boiling Crab which was really, really good until I dropped a shrimp on my shirt... and pants. It was all downhill from there. I know, i'm rather clumsy.
The next day was Formula D, the day I had anticipated for weeks. This was my first time going down to Formula Drift and I must say, it was awesome. The sound of tires screeching, and engines revving; the smell of tires smoking, the experience was unparalleled to anything I've ever experienced. The sound of all those engines alone was enough to put a smile across any mans face. Watching so many good drivers matched up against each other really was quite a sight. So much so that i'm even thinking about going to Formula Drift Las Vegas in August... :D
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I did a little writeup of the build: www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=79893
Frozen pond at the golden pavilion, Kinkakuji of Kyoto.
Japantourist writeup : japantourist.jp/photos/frozen-pond-of-kinkakuji
Frozen pond at the golden pavilion, Kinkakuji of Kyoto.
Japantourist writeup : japantourist.jp/photos/frozen-pond-of-kinkakuji
My publication (photography and write-up) on CCLaP Chicago Center for Literature and Photography.
My new publication Here
Special thanks to Jason Pettus
Shot for a feature for Northwest Auto Crew. You can see the rest of the photos and a full write-up on Luke's awesome Datsun 240z HERE
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Finally Mr Sun showed up and what a glorious sun shiny day it was. I went for one shot Thursday again, I was walking in from doing chores and saw this tennis ball in the yard and thought hey maybe this will be an okay shot with the beautiful sun and dew. So this is what you get, wish I would have trimmed the grass in the foreground but oh well :-)
A couple more shots are posted on my blog along with a writeup on waiting...don't we all love waiting. Oh yeah and I posted a really good and easy banana chocolate chip muffin recipe.
it is a family tradition to keep the business going strong and strong, but what can they do besides this, maybe they weren't meant to be outside. Maybe,the concept of being in here keep this place in complete
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MerDeCha is combined from 3 individual Jaegers. The term MerDeCha is a portmanteau of Merdeka* + Mecha.
*Merdeka is a Malay language term for Independence.
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Sureshot transform into a dune buggy .As a robot, he has great articulations.
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Formerly known as Megatron (the leader of the evil Decepticons from G1 Transformers cartoon series) , Galvatron is the upgraded version of the 'former (no pun intended) by the Unicron, the planet sized Transformer. Now he's not just evil .. he's insane as hell!
This Galvatron was built using only parts (including spares) from LEGO Creator set 31121: Crocodile.
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Nicolas Flamel showed up in the first Harry Potter book. JK Rowling seemed to want to base the series at least partially in reality. (Apparently, Flamel also showed up in The Da Vinci Code too, but somehow I missed that reference.)
Interestingly, more recent photos show that the facade has changed significantly since we were there in December 2003: by May 2006 renovations had begun, and by September 2009, in addition to the stonework being cleaned up, the gothic "Auberge Nicolas Flamel" inscription over the ground floor has been removed, as has the lamp and red sign, and it looks like the doors & windows have been replaced.
Obligatory WIkipedia writeup follows:
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Nicolas Flamel (French pronunciation: [nikɔlɑ flaˈmɛl]) (early 1330-1418 or 2009, as some say) was a successful French scrivener and manuscript-seller who developed a posthumous reputation as an alchemist due to his reputed work on the philosopher's stone.
According to the introduction to his work and additional details that have accrued since its publication, Flamel was the most accomplished of the European alchemists, and had learned his art from a Jewish converso on the road to Santiago de Compostela. "Others thought Flamel was the creation of 17th-century editors and publishers desperate to produce modern printed editions of supposedly ancient alchemical treatises then circulating in manuscript for an avid reading public," Deborah Harkness put it succinctly.[1] The modern assertion that many references to him or his writings appear in alchemical texts of the 1500s, however, has not been linked to any particular source. The essence of his reputation is that he succeeded at the two magical goals of alchemy -- that he made the Philosophers' Stone, found on page 14 of the Book of Abraham the Mage, which turns lead into gold, and that he and his wife Perenelle achieved immortality through the "Elixer of Life" found on Page 7 of the Book of Abraham the Mage.
Life
Nicolas and his wife, Perenelle were devout Roman Catholics. Later in life they were noted for their wealth and philanthropy as well as multiple interpretations on modern day alchemy.
An alchemical book, published in Paris in 1612 as Livre des figures hiéroglypiques and in London in 1624 as Exposition of the Hieroglyphicall Figures was attributed to Flamel.[2] It is a collection of designs purportedly commissioned by Flamel for a tympanum at the Cimetière des Innocents in Paris, long disappeared at the time the work was published. In the publisher's introduction Flamel's search for the philosopher's stone was described. According to that introduction, Flamel had made it his life's work to understand the text of a mysterious 21-page book he had purchased. The introduction claims that, around 1378, he travelled to Spain for assistance with translation. On the way back, he reported that he met a sage, who identified Flamel's book as being a copy of the original Book of Abraham the Mage. With this knowledge, over the next few years, Flamel and his wife allegedly decoded enough of the book to successfully replicate its recipe for the Philosopher's Stone, producing first silver in 1382, and then gold.
Flamel lived into his 80s, and in 1410 designed his own tombstone, which was carved with arcane alchemical signs and symbols. Some believe that he died shortly after the tombstone was created. Later, according to popular culture, a local criminal (possibly a tomb robber) who wished to acquire Flamel's reputed gold went to Flamel's residence. Finding nothing, but undeterred, he was said then to have gone to the gravesite with only a spade and a lantern, and dug up the grave. Upon opening the coffin, he was disappointed to find an absence of gold, but shocked to find no trace of the corpse of Nicolas Flamel.[citation needed] Some claim that it was just the grave of the wrong person who was not dead at the time, while others claim that he faked his own death, citing as evidence the fact that long after 1410 several books were published in his name.[citation needed] The tombstone is preserved at the Musée de Cluny in Paris.
Expanded accounts of his life are legendary. In addition to the mysterious book of 21 pages filled with encoded alchemical symbols and arcane writing, he may also have studied some texts in Hebrew. Interest in Flamel revived in the 19th century, and Victor Hugo mentioned him in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Eric Satie was intrigued by Flamel.[3] Flamel is often referred to in late twentieth-century fictional works such as the Harry Potter and The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel books and movies as well as The Da Vinci Code.
Death
Flamel's death was recorded in 1418, but his tomb is empty. Rumors spread that Nicolas Flamel never actually died and is still alive today, since people have claimed to have seen him and his wife roaming around Paris; Witnesses claimed to have seen him in 1761 at an opera in Paris.[citation needed]
Flamel's house, where he lived with his wife Perenelle Flamel, an alchemist in her own right, still stands in Paris, at 51 rue de Montmorency, and is the oldest house in the city. The ground floor currently contains a restaurant. A Paris road near the Louvre Museum, the rue Nicolas Flamel, has been named for him; it intersects with the rue Perenelle, named for his wife.
In popular culture
• The plot of Shadow of Destiny for the PS2 follows that of the story of Nicholas Flamel. In that game, an alchemist becomes obsessed with finding the philosopher's stone after his wife dies of an illness. The game features multiple endings, one of which allows the alchemist to save his wife by forming the Elixir of Life from the philosopher's stone, while others involve him obtaining eternal youth for himself.
• Nicolas Flamel's story is alluded to in J. K. Rowling's first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone(1997), in which he is something of a MacGuffin; though he is the clue to the whole mystery of the book, he never actually makes an appearance. He was friends with Albus Dumbledore and is said to have lived for six-hundred and sixty-five years until the Philosopher's Stone was destroyed following the events of the book.[4]
• Flamel has been alleged to be the eighth Grand Master of the Priory of Sion (1398-1418) as part of a 1960s intrigue where his name was planted in the French National Library in the Dossiers Secrets. This resulted in him being mentioned in the 1982 pseudohistory book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, Umberto Eco's 1988 novel Foucault's Pendulum, and Dan Brown's 2003 novel, The Da Vinci Code. Many of the names of "Grand Masters" were evidently chosen for some sort of connection with alchemy.
• Nicolas and his wife Perenelle Flamel are important characters mentioned in the Indiana Jones story Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone by Max McCoy (1995), and an elderly couple named "Nicolas and Pernelle" save Indy during one scene, before professing to have followed Jones's career closely.
• Nicolas and his wife are central characters in Michael Scott's seriesThe Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, The Sorceress: The Secrets Of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel ,and "The Necromancer: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel" . Also the book of Abraham the Mage is a focus in the series, called The Codex.
• He is the subject of Michael Roberts' poem "Nicholas Flamel", collected in These Our Matins (1930).
• The concept album Grand Materia (2005) by the Swedish metal band Morgana Lefay is about Nicolas Flamel, his life, and how he made the Philosopher's Stone.
• Flamel was once referenced in the anime Fullmetal Alchemist, when Edward Elric was researching alchemy in Central. The symbol on Edward Elric's coat is also known as a "Flamel."
• In the DC comics universe, Zatanna is a direct descendant of Flamel.
• Nicolas Flamel is also a character in the 1999 novel "The Burning Road" by Ann Benson. The Book of Abraham also plays a significant role in the novel.
• Nicolas Flamel is referenced in The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père, when the title character is discussing chemistry, poisons, and alchemy with Madame de Villefort.
• Flamel is mentioned as possessing the Book of Abraham in Dennis Wheatley's novel about black magic, "The Devil Rides Out".
• Flamel is mentioned as Claude Frollo's scientific inspiration in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Frollo seems to be obsessed with Flamel's work with the Philosopher's Stone.
• Flamel, Paracelsus, and Raymond Lull are described as "the magicians and alchemists of the Middle Ages" (62) in the 1885 sci-fi classic Tomorrow's Eve by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (trans. Robert Martin Adams; University of Illinois Press, 1982).
• In the book series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott, he is one of the main characters, and so is his wife, Perenelle.
See also
• Alchemy
• Magic
• Gold
Notes
1. ^ Harkness, review of Dixon 1994 in Isis 89.1 (1998) p. 132.
2. ^ Laurinda Dixon, ed., Nicolas Flamel, his Exposition of the Hieroglyphicall Figures (1624) (New York: Garland) 1994.
3. ^ Wilkins 1993.
4. ^ JKRowling web page - rumour section
References
• Decoding the Past: The Real Sorcerer's Stone, November 15, 2006 History Channel video documentary
• The Philosopher's Stone: A Quest for the Secrets of Alchemy, 2001, Peter Marshall, ISBN 0-330-48910-0
• Creations of Fire, Cathy Cobb & Harold Goldwhite, 2002, ISBN 0-7382-0594-X
• The Alchemyst: The Secrets of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Michael Scott, 2007, ISBN 9780739350324
• Parashpathor(Philosopher's Stone) : A Bengali fiction by Adrish Bardhan,2008
• The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Michael Scott, 2008
• The Sorceress: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Micheal Scott, 2009
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone JK Rowling,1997
External links
• An explanation of some of the alchemical figures on Flamel's tomb
• Flamel Technology French based company named after the alchemist includes a biography of his life and major accomplishments
• Reginald Merton, "A Detailed Biography of Nicolas Flamel" Highly detailed legend.
• The Alchemy Web Site, "The Hieroglyphic Figures" Contains some of Flamel's writings