ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Camille Seaman - Photographer
TED Senior Fellow Camille Seaman photographs big ice and big clouds.

Why you should listen

Camille Seaman takes photographs all over the world using digital and film cameras in multiple formats. Since 2003, her work has concentrated on the fragile environment of the polar regions. Her current project concerns the beauty of natural environments in Siberia. 

Seaman's photographs have been published in Newsweek, Outside, Zeit Wissen, Men's Journal and more, and she has self-published many books on themes like “My China” and “Melting Away: Polar Images” through Fastback Creative Books, a company that she co-founded. In 2008, she was honored with a one-person exhibition, The Last Iceberg, at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC.

Read the TED Blog's Q&A with Camille Seaman >>

Browse a gallery of stormcloud photos >>

More profile about the speaker
Camille Seaman | Speaker | TED.com
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Camille Seaman: Photos from a storm chaser

Camille Seaman: Fotografije lovilke neviht

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Fotografinja Camille Seaman lovi nevihte že 5 let. V tem predavanju nam pokaže osupljive, neverjetne fotografije nebes v nemiru.
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Everything is interconnectedmedsebojno povezani.
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Vse je povezano med seboj.
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As a ShinnecockMestu Shinnecock IndianIndijski, I was raiseddvignjen to know this.
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Kot Shinecock Indijanka
sem odrasla s tem znanjem.
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We are a smallmajhna fishingribolov tribeplemena
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Smo majhno ribiško pleme,
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situatednahaja on the southeasternjugovzhodno tipnasvet of Long IslandOtok
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ki se nahaja na jugovzhodni
konici Long Islanda,
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nearblizu the townmesto of SouthamptonSouthampton in NewNove YorkYork.
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blizu mesta Southampton v New Yorku.
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When I was a little girlpunca,
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Ko sem bila majhna,
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my grandfatherdedek tookvzel me to sitsedi outsidezunaj in the sunsonce on a hotvroče summerpoletje day.
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me je dedek peljal sedet ven
na sonce na vroč poletni dan.
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There were no cloudsoblaki in the skynebo.
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Nebo je bilo brez oblačka.
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And after a while I beganzačel to perspirepotiti.
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Čez nekaj časa sem se začela potiti.
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And he pointedpoudaril up to the skynebo, and he said,
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In pokazal je proti nebu ter rekel:
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"Look, do you see that?
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"Poglej, vidiš to?
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That's partdel of you up there.
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Tam zgoraj je del tebe.
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That's your watervoda that helpspomaga to make the cloudoblak
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To je tvoja voda, ki pomaga ustvariti oblak,
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that becomespostane the raindež that feedsviri the plantsrastline
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ki postane dež, ki hrani rastline,
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that feedsviri the animalsživali."
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ki hranijo živali."
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In my continuednadaljevano explorationraziskovanje of subjectspredmetov in naturenarava
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V svojem nadaljnem raziskovanju
naravnih pojavov,
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that have the abilitysposobnost to illustrateilustrirajte the interconnectionmedsebojna povezava of all life,
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ki so sposobni ilustrirati medsebojno
povezanost vsega življenja,
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I startedzačel stormnevihta chasingloviti in 2008
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sem leta 2008 začela loviti nevihte,
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after my daughterhči said, "MomMama, you should do that."
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ko je moja hči rekla: "Mami,
ti bi to morala početi."
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And so threetri daysdnevi laterpozneje, drivingvožnja very fasthitro,
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In tako sem se tri dni
zelo hitre vožnje kasneje,
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I foundnajdemo myselfjaz stalkingzalezovanje a singlesamski typetip of giantvelikan cloudoblak calledpozval the supersuper cellcelica,
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znašla na zasledovanju velikanskega
oblaka, ki se mu reče super celica,
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capablesposoben of producingproizvajajo grapefruit-sizegrenivke-velikost hailtoča
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ki lahko naredi točo, veliko kot grenivka
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and spectacularspektakularen tornadoestornadi,
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in spektakularne tornade,
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althoughčeprav only two percentodstotkov actuallydejansko do.
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čeprav se to zgodi v samo dveh odstotkih.
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These cloudsoblaki can growrastejo so bigvelik, up to 50 milesmilje wideširoko
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Ti oblaki lahko zelo zrastejo -
do 80 kilometrov v širino,
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and reachdoseči up to 65,000 feetstopala into the atmosphereatmosfero.
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v atmosferi pa dosežejo višino
tudi do 19 800 metrov.
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They can growrastejo so bigvelik, blockingblokiranje all daylightpoletni,
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Lahko so tako veliki, da
prestrežejo vso sončno svetlobo
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makingizdelavo it very darktemno and ominousZlobno standingstoji underSpodaj them.
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in je zelo temno in zlovešče,
ko stojiš pod njimi.
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StormNevihta chasingloviti is a very tactiletaktika experienceizkušnje.
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Lovljenje neviht je zelo čutna izkušnja.
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There's a warmtoplo, moistvlažna windveter blowingpiha at your back
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Topel, vlažen veter ti piha v hrbet ...
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and the smellvonj of the earthZemlja, the wheatpšenica, the grasstrava, the chargedzaračuna particlesdelci.
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... vonj zemlje, pšenice in trave,
nabiti delci ...
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And then there are the colorsbarve in the cloudsoblaki
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In nato so tu barve v oblakih,
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of hailtoča formingoblikovanje, the greenszelenih and the turquoiseTurkizna bluesBlues.
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ko nastaja toča: zeleni
in turkizno modri odtenki.
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I've learnednaučili to respectspoštovanje the lightningstrela.
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Naučila sem se spoštovati strele.
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My hairlasje used to be straightnaravnost.
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Moji lasje so bili včasih ravni.
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(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
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I'm just kiddingšaliti se.
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Samo šalim se.
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(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
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What really excitesvznemirja me about these stormsnevihte
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Kar me res navduši pri teh nevihtah,
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is theirnjihovi movementpremikanje, the way they swirlvrtinec and spinspin and undulateUstalasati,
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je njihovo gibanje - način,
kako se zvijajo in vrtijo in valovijo,
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with theirnjihovi lavalava lamp-likesvetilka kot mammatusmammatus cloudsoblaki.
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s svojimi lava-svetilkam
podobnimi mammatus oblaki.
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They becomepostane lovelylepo monsterspošasti.
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Postanejo ljubke pošasti.
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When I'm photographingfotografiranje them,
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Ko jih fotografiram,
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I cannotne morem help but rememberZapomni si my grandfather'sdedka lessonlekcijo.
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ne morem, da se ne bi spomnila
lekcije mojega dedka.
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As I standstojalo underSpodaj them,
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Ko stojim pod njimi,
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I see not just a cloudoblak,
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ne vidim samo oblaka,
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but understandrazumeti that what I have the privilegeprivilegij to witnesspriča
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ampak razumem, da imam čast opazovati
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is the sameenako forcessile, the sameenako processproces in a small-scalemajhen versionrazličico
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enake sile, enak proces v manjši različici,
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that helpedpomagal to createustvarite our galaxygalaksija, our solarsončna energija systemsistem, our sunsonce
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ki je pomagal ustvariti našo galaksijo,
naš sončni sistem, naše sonce
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and even this very planetplanet.
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in celo naš planet.
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All my relationsodnose. Thank you.
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Vsi smo povezani. Hvala.
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(ApplauseAplavz)
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(Aplavz)
Translated by Nika Kotnik
Reviewed by Jonathan Rebec

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Camille Seaman - Photographer
TED Senior Fellow Camille Seaman photographs big ice and big clouds.

Why you should listen

Camille Seaman takes photographs all over the world using digital and film cameras in multiple formats. Since 2003, her work has concentrated on the fragile environment of the polar regions. Her current project concerns the beauty of natural environments in Siberia. 

Seaman's photographs have been published in Newsweek, Outside, Zeit Wissen, Men's Journal and more, and she has self-published many books on themes like “My China” and “Melting Away: Polar Images” through Fastback Creative Books, a company that she co-founded. In 2008, she was honored with a one-person exhibition, The Last Iceberg, at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC.

Read the TED Blog's Q&A with Camille Seaman >>

Browse a gallery of stormcloud photos >>

More profile about the speaker
Camille Seaman | Speaker | TED.com