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

Камил Симан: Фотографии од еден трагач по бури

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Фотографот Камил Симан трага по бури веќе 5 години. Во овој говор таа прикажува запрепастувачки, надреални фотографии од разбеснетото небо.
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TED Senior Fellow Camille Seaman photographs big ice and big clouds. Full bio

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Everything is interconnected.
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Се е меѓуповрзано.
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As a Shinnecock Indian, I was raised to know this.
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Како Шинекок Индијанец, така ме учеа уште како мала.
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We are a small fishing tribe
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Ние сме мало рибарско племе
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situated on the southeastern tip of Long Island
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сместено на југоисточниот дел од ,,Лонг Ајленд''
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near the town of Southampton in New York.
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во близина на гратчето Саутемптон во Њујорк.
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When I was a little girl,
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Кога бев малечка,
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my grandfather took me to sit outside in the sun on a hot summer day.
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за време на еден топол летен ден, дедо ми ме изнесе надвор да седам на сонцето.
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There were no clouds in the sky.
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Немаше облаци на небото.
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And after a while I began to perspire.
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И после некое време почнав да се потам.
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And he pointed up to the sky, and he said,
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Тој посочи кон небото и рече,
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"Look, do you see that?
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,,Гледај, го гледаш тоа?
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That's part of you up there.
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Тоа е дел од тебе.
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That's your water that helps to make the cloud
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Таа вода е дел од тебе, ги создава облаците
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that becomes the rain that feeds the plants
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од кои пак доаѓа дождот кој ги храни растенијата,
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that feeds the animals."
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а кои пак ги хранат животните.''
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In my continued exploration of subjects in nature
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Како дел од моето постојано истражување на
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that have the ability to illustrate the interconnection of all life,
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теми од природата кои ја илустрираат поврзаноста на сиот жив свет.
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I started storm chasing in 2008
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во 2008 започнав да бркам бури
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after my daughter said, "Mom, you should do that."
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откако ќерка ми ми рече, ,,Мамо, треба да го направиш тоа.''
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And so three days later, driving very fast,
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И така три дена подоцна, возејќи многу брзо,
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I found myself stalking a single type of giant cloud called the super cell,
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бев во ситуација во која бркав еден огромен облак наречен ,,супер клетка','
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capable of producing grapefruit-size hail
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кој може да произведе град со големина на грејпфрут
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and spectacular tornadoes,
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и спектакуларни торнада,
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although only two percent actually do.
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иако само два проценти успеваат во тоа.
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These clouds can grow so big, up to 50 miles wide
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Овие облаци може да станат многу големи, се до 50 милји во ширина
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and reach up to 65,000 feet into the atmosphere.
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и достигнуваат до 65,000 стапки во атмосферата.
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They can grow so big, blocking all daylight,
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Можат да станат толку големи, што ја блокираат сета светлина
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making it very dark and ominous standing under them.
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и е многу мрачно и застрашувачко ако се најдете под нив.
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Storm chasing is a very tactile experience.
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Бркањето на бури е многу длабоко доживување.
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There's a warm, moist wind blowing at your back
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Има топлина, влажен ветер ви дува в грб,
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and the smell of the earth, the wheat, the grass, the charged particles.
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па тука е мирисот на земјата, на пченицата, тревата и наелектризираните честички.
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And then there are the colors in the clouds
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Па ги имате боите на облаците во кои
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of hail forming, the greens and the turquoise blues.
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се создава град,
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I've learned to respect the lightning.
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Научив да ја почитувам молњата.
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My hair used to be straight.
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Мојата коса претходно беше права.
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(Laughter)
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(Смеа)
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I'm just kidding.
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Се зезам.
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(Laughter)
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(Смеа)
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What really excites me about these storms
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Она што навистина ме возбудува кај овие бури
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is their movement, the way they swirl and spin and undulate,
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е нивното движење, начинот на кој се вртат и брануваат,
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with their lava lamp-like mammatus clouds.
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и нивните мамутски облаци...
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They become lovely monsters.
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Се претвараат во прекрасни чудовишта.
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When I'm photographing them,
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Кога ги фотографирам,
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I cannot help but remember my grandfather's lesson.
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не можам, а да не се сетам на лекцијата од дедо ми.
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As I stand under them,
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Кога стојам под нив,
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I see not just a cloud,
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не гледам само облаци,
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but understand that what I have the privilege to witness
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туку сфаќам дека имам чест да ги набљудувам
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is the same forces, the same process in a small-scale version
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во помал размер, истите сили, истите процеси,
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that helped to create our galaxy, our solar system, our sun
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кои ја создале нашата галаксија, нашиот сончев систем, нашето сонце
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and even this very planet.
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и дури и оваа наша планета.
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All my relations. Thank you.
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Сите мои поврзаници. Ви благодарам
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(Applause)
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(Аплауз)
Translated by Charlie Psy
Reviewed by Zvezdana Moneva

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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

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