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Camille Seaman: Photos from a storm chaser
Camille Seaman: Fotos d'una perseguidora de tempestes
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La fotògrafa Camille Seaman ha estat perseguint tempestes durant 5 anys. En aquesta conferència ensenya fotos sorprenents i surrealistes dels cels en moviment.
Camille Seaman - Photographer
TED Senior Fellow Camille Seaman photographs big ice and big clouds. Full bio
TED Senior Fellow Camille Seaman photographs big ice and big clouds. Full bio
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Everything is interconnected.
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Totes les coses estan interconnectades.
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As a Shinnecock Indian, I was raised to know this.
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Panathinaiko com a persona, em va arribar a conèixer la veritat
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We are a small fishing tribe
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Som una petita tribu de pescadors
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situated on the southeastern tip of Long Island
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Long Island es troba a la cantonada sud-est
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near the town of Southampton in New York.
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Southampton a prop de la ciutat de Nova York
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When I was a little girl,
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Quan era una nena
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my grandfather took me to sit outside in the sun on a hot summer day.
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El meu avi em va portar a un estiu calent assegut al sol
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There were no clouds in the sky.
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Cel sense núvols
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And after a while I began to perspire.
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Després d'un temps, vaig començar a suar
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And he pointed up to the sky, and he said,
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Avi que apunta cap amunt cel, va dir:
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"Look, do you see that?
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"Mira, veus això?
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That's part of you up there.
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Hi ha una part de tu
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That's your water that helps to make the cloud
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És la teva aigua el que ajuda a fer el núvol
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that becomes the rain that feeds the plants
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És la seva suor per convertir-se en un núvol de pluja per regar les plantes
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that feeds the animals."
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Els animals Alimentació“
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In my continued exploration of subjects in nature
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Estic constantment a la natura per explorar les substàncies
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that have the ability to illustrate the interconnection of all life,
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que té la capacitat d'il. lustrar la interconnexió de tota la vida,
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I started storm chasing in 2008
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vaig començar a perseguir tempestes el 2008
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after my daughter said, "Mom, you should do that."
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després que la meva filla digués, "Mama, hauries de fer això."
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And so three days later, driving very fast,
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I així, tres dies més tard, conduint molt de pressa,
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I found myself stalking a single type of giant cloud called the super cell,
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em vaig trobar mirant un sol tipus de núvols gegants anomenats la cèl·lula súper,
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capable of producing grapefruit-size hail
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capaços de produir calamarsa de la mida d'una taronja
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and spectacular tornadoes,
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i tornados espectaculars,
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although only two percent actually do.
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encara que només se'n fan realment un dos per cent.
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These clouds can grow so big, up to 50 miles wide
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Aquests núvols poden créixer molt, fins a 50 milles d'ample
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and reach up to 65,000 feet into the atmosphere.
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i arribar als 65.000 metres a l'atmosfera.
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They can grow so big, blocking all daylight,
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Poden créixer tant, tapant tota la llum del dia,
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making it very dark and ominous standing under them.
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fent que sota d'ells s'estigui fosc i ominós.
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Storm chasing is a very tactile experience.
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Perseguir tempestes és una experiència molt agradable.
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There's a warm, moist wind blowing at your back
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Hi ha un vent càlid i humit que bufa a la teva esquena
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and the smell of the earth, the wheat, the grass, the charged particles.
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i l'olor de la terra, el blat, l'herba, les partícules carregades.
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And then there are the colors in the clouds
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I després hi ha els colors dels núvols
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of hail forming, the greens and the turquoise blues.
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de calamarsa formant-se, els verds i blaus turqueses.
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I've learned to respect the lightning.
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He après a respectar el llamp.
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My hair used to be straight.
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El meu cabell era llis.
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
02:28
I'm just kidding.
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Només estic fent broma.
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(Laughter)
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(Rialles)
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What really excites me about these storms
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El que realment m'excita sobre aquestes tempestes
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is their movement, the way they swirl and spin and undulate,
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és el seu moviment, la manera com giren i s'ondulen,
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with their lava lamp-like mammatus clouds.
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amb els núvols de llum com de lava.
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They become lovely monsters.
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Es converteixen en monstres encantadors.
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When I'm photographing them,
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Quan els estic fotografiant,
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I cannot help but remember my grandfather's lesson.
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no puc evitar recordar la lliçó del meu avi.
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As I stand under them,
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Com estava sota d'ells,
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I see not just a cloud,
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No només veig un núvol,
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but understand that what I have the privilege to witness
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sinó que entenc que el que tinc el privilegi de presenciar
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is the same forces, the same process in a small-scale version
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són les mateixes forces, el mateix procés en una versió de petita escala
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that helped to create our galaxy, our solar system, our sun
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que van ajudar a crear la nostra galàxia, el nostre sistema solar, el sol
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and even this very planet.
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i fins i tot aquest mateix planeta.
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All my relations. Thank you.
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Totes les meves relacions. Gràcies.
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(Applause)
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(Aplaudiments)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Camille Seaman - PhotographerTED 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.
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