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Camille Seaman: Photos from a storm chaser
Camille Seaman: Billeder fra en der jagter storme
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Fotograf Camille Seaman har jagtet storme i 5 år. I dette foredrag viser hun betagende, surrealistiske fotografier af en oprørt himmel.
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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Alt er forbundet indbyrdes med hinanden.
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As a Shinnecock Indian, I was raised to know this.
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Som Shinnecock indianer, blev jeg opdraget til at vide dette.
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We are a small fishing tribe
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Vi er en lille stamme af fiskere,
00:21
situated on the southeastern tip of Long Island
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der befinder sig på den sydøstlige spids af Long Island
00:24
near the town of Southampton in New York.
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i nærheden af byen Southampton i New York.
00:27
When I was a little girl,
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Da jeg var en lille pige,
00:30
my grandfather took me to sit outside in the sun on a hot summer day.
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tog min bedstefar mig med ud at sidde i solen på en varm sommerdag.
00:35
There were no clouds in the sky.
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Der var ikke nogen skyer på himlen.
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And after a while I began to perspire.
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Og efter et stykke tid begyndte jeg at svede.
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And he pointed up to the sky, and he said,
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Og han pegede op mod himlen, og han sagde,
00:45
"Look, do you see that?
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"Se, kan du se det?
00:48
That's part of you up there.
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Det er en del af dig deroppe.
00:50
That's your water that helps to make the cloud
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Det er dit vand der hjælper med at lave skyen
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that becomes the rain that feeds the plants
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der bliver den regn der fodrer planterne
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that feeds the animals."
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der fodrer dyrene."
01:01
In my continued exploration of subjects in nature
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I min fortsatte udforskning af genstande i naturen
01:04
that have the ability to illustrate the interconnection of all life,
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der har evnen til at illustrere den indbyrdes forbundethed med alt liv,
01:09
I started storm chasing in 2008
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jeg begyndte at jage storme i 2008
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after my daughter said, "Mom, you should do that."
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efter min datter sagde, "Mor, det skulle du gøre."
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And so three days later, driving very fast,
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Og tre dage senere, mens jeg kørte meget hurtigt,
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I found myself stalking a single type of giant cloud called the super cell,
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fandt jeg mig selv jage en bestemt type gigantisk sky der kaldes en super celle,
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capable of producing grapefruit-size hail
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i stand til at producere hagl på størrelse med grapefrugter
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and spectacular tornadoes,
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og spektakulære tornadoer,
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although only two percent actually do.
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selvom kun to procent faktisk gør det.
01:42
These clouds can grow so big, up to 50 miles wide
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Disse skyer kan vokse sig så store, op til 80 kilometer brede
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and reach up to 65,000 feet into the atmosphere.
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og række op imod 20 kilometer op i atmosfæren.
01:51
They can grow so big, blocking all daylight,
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De kan vokse sig så store, at de blokerer fra al dagslys,
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making it very dark and ominous standing under them.
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og gør det meget mørkt og faretruende at stå under dem.
01:58
Storm chasing is a very tactile experience.
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At jage storme er en meget taktil oplevelse.
02:01
There's a warm, moist wind blowing at your back
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Der er en varm, fugtig vind der blæser i ryggen på en
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and the smell of the earth, the wheat, the grass, the charged particles.
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og lugten af jorden, hveden, græsset, de ladede partikler.
02:12
And then there are the colors in the clouds
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Og så er der farverne i skyerne
02:16
of hail forming, the greens and the turquoise blues.
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med haglene der formede sig, det grønne og de turkisfarvede.
02:21
I've learned to respect the lightning.
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Jeg har lært at respektere lynet.
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My hair used to be straight.
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Mit hår plejede at være glat.
02:26
(Laughter)
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(Latter)
02:28
I'm just kidding.
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Det er bare pjat.
02:29
(Laughter)
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(Latter)
02:31
What really excites me about these storms
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Det der virkelig gør mig begejstret omkring disse storme
02:35
is their movement, the way they swirl and spin and undulate,
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er deres bevægelse, måden de hvirvler og snor og bølger sig,
02:39
with their lava lamp-like mammatus clouds.
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med deres lavalampe lignende gigantiske skyer.
02:43
They become lovely monsters.
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De bliver dejlige monstre.
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When I'm photographing them,
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Når jeg fotograferer dem,
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I cannot help but remember my grandfather's lesson.
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kan jeg ikke lade være med at huske på min bedstefars lektion.
02:52
As I stand under them,
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Når jeg står under dem,
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I see not just a cloud,
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ser jeg ikke kun skyen,
02:56
but understand that what I have the privilege to witness
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men jeg forstår at det jeg er så priviligeret at overvære
02:59
is the same forces, the same process in a small-scale version
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er de samme kræfter, den samme process der i lille målestoksforhold
03:03
that helped to create our galaxy, our solar system, our sun
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hjalp med at skabe vores galakse, vores solsystem, vores sol
03:10
and even this very planet.
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og selv denne selvsamme planet.
03:14
All my relations. Thank you.
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Alle mine forhold. Tak.
03:17
(Applause)
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(Bifald)
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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