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One of the many teams in the heroics program at Somerset Academy. Soon to be facing off against X-Boiz/Zeta Falcon Hyper Bunch for a skirmish. From Left to Right we have
Alias: Turbulence
Name: Nick Salvatore
Gender: Male
Allegiance: Hero
Gear: Combat Armour, Power Spear, with built in Pulse Assault Rifle
Powers: Flight, Can control the wind as he pleases
Alias: Talon,
Gender: Female
Allegiance: Hero
Gear: Talon Sheathes, Body Armour, Stealth Suit
Powers: Her wings allow her to fly, and Heightened Senses. Ignores vision obscurement with her lenses. Her talons have poison on them, which can knock other people out. Has minor bad luck for others around her.
Alias: Tributary
Name: Wayne Andrews
Gender: Male
Allegiance: Hero
Gear: Power Spear, with built in Pulse Assault Rifle
Powers: Hydrokinesis, can create Hardwater Armour, as well as weapons.
Alias: Tempest
Name: Jenny Salvatore
Gender: Female
Allegiance: Hero
Gear: Power Spear, with built in Pulse Assault Rifle
Powers: Storm (Downpour, Gale Force, Lightning Strike)
Other: Has a relationship with fellow team member Tributary.
Riptide's a global Atlantean organization. But these five were chosen by the Crown Prince of Atlantis to lead the invasion into Sunrise City. Just one cell, of many in the Riptide organization. This group is also not to be confused with the Cardinal City villain with the same name.
Alias: Typhon
Race: Atlantean (Tarongi)
Weakness: Dependency on salt water. Also has a vow to serve the Ar'tem bloodline, which by proxy, serves Undertow.
Gender: Male
Powers: Atlantean Magic
Alias: Flow
Race: Atlantean (Meryn)
Other: Has a distinctive appearance, due to being made of water.
Weakness: Dependency on sea water
Powers: Altered Form Water. Aquatic therefore able to swim at extraordinary speeds, and limited telepathy with other Atlanteans. Within her altered form she can bend water to her will, and can even grow exponentially in size. In this form, she has dense, hardwater skin, which increases her durability during a fight.
Alias: Undertow
Name: Khyl'ani Ar'tem,
Race: Atlantean (Atlani)
Other: Distinctive light bluish skin color, a commonality in Atlani people.
Weakness: Dependency on water. Has her own code of honor, which can at times, restrict her.
Gender: Female
Powers: Aquatic therefore able to swim at extraordinary speeds, and limited telepathy with other Atlanteans. Also is able to manipulate water to her liking. Has slightly enhanced strength as well. Can manipulate water to her will, able to create weapons, along with ranged attacks, or even defensive abilities. Can leap 40 feet vertically, and 80 feet horizontally. Has minor enhanced strength as well.
Alias: Aquamarine
Race: Atlantean (Meryn)
Weakness: Dependency on Sea Water.
Powers: Aquatic therefore able to swim at extraordinary speeds, and limited telepathy with other Atlanteans. Enhanced armor and strength. Limited flight due to thrusters. Heightened senses. Suit allows her to project energy blasts. Helmet allows for her to ignore any obscurement.
Alias: Synancea
Race: Atlantean (Atlani)
Other: Distinctive light bluish skin color, and other distinctive physical features underneath the armor.
Weakness: Dependency on water. Also has a vow to serve Undertow at any cost, which could be seen as a weakness.
Powers: Invisibility, Poison claws, Aquatic therefore able to swim at extraordinary speeds, and limited telepathy with other Atlanteans.
The fog had descended in the night to leave a frosty, murky morning. Perfect for a spot of long-exposure photography :-)
Equipment: Nikon D7000, Nikkor 10-24mm @10mm, Hitech 10-stop filter, ISO100, F8, 68sec. Manfrotto tripod.
Post Production: Colour adjusted (curves for each colour channel), curves adjusted to boost contrast.
taken from the lower steps leading up to the base of the lighthouse at Manistique, Michigan, looking out over Lake Michigan
for some reason, perhaps the very sold, dark blue of the water, it looks "hard" to me -- almost a solid thing rather than liquid
it was also taken in May 2022, rather than our typical visiting months of July and August, which might affect the quality of light and color; at the very least, the water would certainly have been colder then
Technically, I think this should be classed as a “selfie”. I loved being out on this morning and taking pictures. Looking throught the viewfinder, I liked the overall scene but I though it needed an additional focal point. With no dog walker to hand, I set the self-timer and ran out to the tree. It must have been a very comic sight for anyone watching me.
Equipment: Nikon D7000, Nikkor 10-24mm @10mm. ISO100, F8, 1/60sec. Manfrotto tripod.
Post Production: Curve layers created and masked for non-destructive dodge/burn. ND grad effect added.
...as a snow squall blows in from the northwest of Beacon Island it dramatically darken the skies for me, (enhanced a tad in LR6). The skies cracked open to allow a sliver of beautiful light to rest upon my favorite island destination. Beacon Island is located in the southern portion of The Great Sacandaga Lake, New York. Photographed with a Pentax K3 and a Pentax DA*50-135 lens.
This has been one of the most challenging of the #MacroMondays themes. For 7/28 we were tasked with finding something to shoot in macro for #decay. This is a faucet that I chose a while back to go with the other bathroom fixtures. When he installed it, the plumber said it might not hold up to our town’s notoriously hard water. Boy, was he right
……💙 HMM 💙
Hey boys , slow down. This is what happens when a new person appears on one side of the pond, All in the hope of bread. Can be quite spectacular twenty or so ducks , geese and coots hurtling towards you at full speed. Unfortunately they don't slow down on Ianding quite as quickly on ice as they do normally ! By April they will ignore you , and then later a fresh brood of ducklings will follow in their fathers footsteps , or rather , wingbeats, and ask for food.
The sunset last night, i think these are mostly lapwings?
If you view large,you can see sheep & the mist rising from the river.
I posted another version of this scene a couple of weeks ago, but didn't want to waste this shot which I also liked, so here it is.
The Grade II-listed Hardwater Mill is just to the west of Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, on the River Nene near Great Doddington. The buildings date from the mid-1700s to the early 1800s, though there has been a watermill on this site since the time of the Domesday Book. Milling ceased in 1946 and it is now a private residence.
I was trying to photograph the Varied Thrush who was perched on our backyard fountain when another bird showed up and scared him off. I was disappointed until I saw it was this guy! I think this is the rascal who has been loudly drumming on my livingroom glass window. Another shot taken in low light through my foggy hardwater stained patio door and adjusted in Adobe Lightroom.
(Northern Flicker - Colaptes auratus)
Parfrey's Glen is located approximately 5 miles north of Merrimac, Wisconsin. Though within the boundaries of Devil's Lake State Park, it cannot be accessed by vehicle from the rest of the park. A trail leads north into the natural area. The Ice Age Trail also passes through the site. Heavy rainstorms in 2008 destroyed the boardwalk that made up the last part of the trail, which leads to a small waterfall.
The exposed sandstone walls of Parfrey's glen contain pebbles and boulders of embedded quartzite. The walls are covered with moss and remain moist from seepage, and cool and shaded climate. This results in a flora more typical of northern Wisconsin with yellow birch, mountain maple, and red elder and several rare plant species, including the federally threatened northern monkshood (Aconitum noveboracense) and state-threatened round stemmed false foxglove (Agalinus gattingeri).
Additional rare species found here include cliff goldenrod (Solidago sciaphila), and two state-threatened birds, the cerulean warbler (Setophaga cerulea) and Acadian flycatcher (Empidonax virescens). The fast and cold hardwater stream, Parfrey's Glen Creek, flows through the gorge and harbors a rare species of diving beetle (Agabus confusus) and a rare caddisfly (Limnephilus rossi).
Hopelessly passing your time in the grassland away
Only dimly aware of a certain unease in the air
You better watch out
There may be dogs about
Sheep seek shelter from the already hot sun; even at 0930, the temperature was getting towards nineties.
Hardwater Mill, Nene Valley, Northamptonshire.
12.8.2020
1956 Kodak "Retina" IIIc
Eastman Kodak Double-X 5222 250asa
Dev.: ID-11/ 1:1/ 10mins/ 68°F
Thank you, Eric Ray! I'll use Barry's campaign name!
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Salt...every human's need in entire life...without salt there is no food and no world...
it is available everywhere...we are seeing very beautiful advertisement about the salt product from various brands...but there is an story behind this product...
Tamil Nadu is one of the few states that produce salt in India. In Tamil Nadu, salt is produced primarily in the three districts of Nagapattinam, Tuticorin and Marakkanam in Villupuram.
This is about the Salt production at Marakkanam in Villupuram Dist.
The salt pan workers work under extremely hazardous conditions. They work with the harsh sun beating down upon them under the open sky and have employment only for about six months in a year.
Their daily wages vary between 35 rupees to 85 rupees (US$ 0.78 to 1.9). Women generally get paid lower than men. In Marakknam, most of the workers belong to the Schedule Caste communities. It is estimated that about 3000 workers exist in Marakkanam area.
While poverty, indebtedness and deprivation are common to all the salt pan workers, the women, as in many other poor communities, become greater victims of poverty. Generally, they suffer from serious gynaecological problems and. malnutrition and anaemia are also very common. They also do not have support systems to take care of their children. They hardly have access to any quality medical care. Since usually both the parents go to work in the salt pans, it is not clear as to who takes care of their children.
I have captured their activities in three seasons ie., initial ground preparation, Salt making and storing, the final one is in the rainy season where the ground is full of water... I had been there many times to see their activities and i used to talk to them about their work and life balance, to be frank I was so shocked while seeing their work on the field...it was so hot and if we continue be there for more than 15min we may feel that the water level in our body will be completely drained out. such a hot and dry day whole day and everyday...
Lake Delavan Feb 6th. It's 90 minutes out of Chicago and a great place to scratch that sailing itch over the winter. These boats can get up to 5 times the speed of the wind. Lot of fun... Wear a helmet.
Local band playing at the Davis Farmer's Market tonight. They played mostly classic rock, with quite a bit of Grateful Dead. That's never a bad thing.
L-R:
Richard Day (guitar, harmonica)
Johnny Flores (drums -- only partially visible)
Kat Bowden (mandolin, vocals, percussion)
Rob Gonzales (Bass, vocals - back row)
John Swann (guitar, vocals)
Bob Lindley (violin, baritone violin, electric mandolin)
Hardwater Mill. Again. It's a nice little spot, though. River Nene, Northamptonshire.
12.8.2020
1956 Kodak "Retina" IIIc
Eastman Kodak Double-X 5222 250asa
Dev.: ID-11/ 1:1/ 10mins/ 68°F
Salt...every human's need in entire life...without salt there is no food and no world...
it is available everywhere...we are seeing very beautiful advertisement about the salt product from various brands...but there is an story behind this product...
Tamil Nadu is one of the few states that produce salt in India. In Tamil Nadu, salt is produced primarily in the three districts of Nagapattinam, Tuticorin and Marakkanam in Villupuram.
This is about the Salt production at Marakkanam in Villupuram Dist.
The salt pan workers work under extremely hazardous conditions. They work with the harsh sun beating down upon them under the open sky and have employment only for about six months in a year.
Their daily wages vary between 35 rupees to 85 rupees (US$ 0.78 to 1.9). Women generally get paid lower than men. In Marakknam, most of the workers belong to the Schedule Caste communities. It is estimated that about 3000 workers exist in Marakkanam area.
While poverty, indebtedness and deprivation are common to all the salt pan workers, the women, as in many other poor communities, become greater victims of poverty. Generally, they suffer from serious gynaecological problems and. malnutrition and anaemia are also very common. They also do not have support systems to take care of their children. They hardly have access to any quality medical care. Since usually both the parents go to work in the salt pans, it is not clear as to who takes care of their children.
I have captured their activities in three seasons ie., initial ground preparation, Salt making and storing, the final one is in the rainy season where the ground is full of water... I had been there many times to see their activities and i used to talk to them about their work and life balance, to be frank I was so shocked while seeing their work on the field...it was so hot and if we continue be there for more than 15min we may feel that the water level in our body will be completely drained out. such a hot and dry day whole day and everyday...
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These big chains are attached to the sluice gates in a lock on the river Nene that is trying to cope with all the flood water.
Parfrey's Glen is located approximately 5 miles north of Merrimac, Wisconsin. Though within the boundaries of Devil's Lake State Park, it cannot be accessed by vehicle from the rest of the park. A trail leads north into the natural area. The Ice Age Trail also passes through the site. Heavy rainstorms in 2008 destroyed the boardwalk that made up the last part of the trail, which leads to a small waterfall.
The exposed sandstone walls of Parfrey's glen contain pebbles and boulders of embedded quartzite. The walls are covered with moss and remain moist from seepage, and cool and shaded climate. This results in a flora more typical of northern Wisconsin with yellow birch, mountain maple, and red elder and several rare plant species, including the federally threatened northern monkshood (Aconitum noveboracense) and state-threatened round stemmed false foxglove (Agalinus gattingeri).
Additional rare species found here include cliff goldenrod (Solidago sciaphila), and two state-threatened birds, the cerulean warbler (Setophaga cerulea) and Acadian flycatcher (Empidonax virescens). The fast and cold hardwater stream, Parfrey's Glen Creek, flows through the gorge and harbors a rare species of diving beetle (Agabus confusus) and a rare caddisfly (Limnephilus rossi).
Salt...every human's need in entire life...without salt there is no food and no world...
it is available everywhere...we are seeing very beautiful advertisement about the salt product from various brands...but there is an story behind this product...
Tamil Nadu is one of the few states that produce salt in India. In Tamil Nadu, salt is produced primarily in the three districts of Nagapattinam, Tuticorin and Marakkanam in Villupuram.
This is about the Salt production at Marakkanam in Villupuram Dist.
The salt pan workers work under extremely hazardous conditions. They work with the harsh sun beating down upon them under the open sky and have employment only for about six months in a year.
Their daily wages vary between 35 rupees to 85 rupees (US$ 0.78 to 1.9). Women generally get paid lower than men. In Marakknam, most of the workers belong to the Schedule Caste communities. It is estimated that about 3000 workers exist in Marakkanam area.
While poverty, indebtedness and deprivation are common to all the salt pan workers, the women, as in many other poor communities, become greater victims of poverty. Generally, they suffer from serious gynaecological problems and. malnutrition and anaemia are also very common. They also do not have support systems to take care of their children. They hardly have access to any quality medical care. Since usually both the parents go to work in the salt pans, it is not clear as to who takes care of their children.
I have captured their activities in three seasons ie., initial ground preparation, Salt making and storing, the final one is in the rainy season where the ground is full of water... I had been there many times to see their activities and i used to talk to them about their work and life balance, to be frank I was so shocked while seeing their work on the field...it was so hot and if we continue be there for more than 15min we may feel that the water level in our body will be completely drained out. such a hot and dry day whole day and everyday...