Camille Seaman: Photos from a storm chaser

Translator: Timothy Covell Reviewer: Thu-Huong Ha

Translator: Nika Kotnik Reviewer: Jonathan Rebec

Everything is interconnected.

Vse je povezano med seboj.

As a Shinnecock Indian, I was raised to know this.

Kot Shinecock Indijanka sem odrasla s tem znanjem.

We are a small fishing tribe

Smo majhno ribiško pleme,

situated on the southeastern tip of Long Island

ki se nahaja na jugovzhodni konici Long Islanda,

near the town of Southampton in New York.

blizu mesta Southampton v New Yorku.

When I was a little girl,

Ko sem bila majhna,

my grandfather took me to sit outside in the sun on a hot summer day.

me je dedek peljal sedet ven na sonce na vroč poletni dan.

There were no clouds in the sky.

Nebo je bilo brez oblačka.

And after a while I began to perspire.

Čez nekaj časa sem se začela potiti.

And he pointed up to the sky, and he said,

In pokazal je proti nebu ter rekel:

"Look, do you see that?

"Poglej, vidiš to?

That's part of you up there.

Tam zgoraj je del tebe.

That's your water that helps to make the cloud

To je tvoja voda, ki pomaga ustvariti oblak,

that becomes the rain that feeds the plants

ki postane dež, ki hrani rastline,

that feeds the animals."

ki hranijo živali."

In my continued exploration of subjects in nature

V svojem nadaljnem raziskovanju naravnih pojavov,

that have the ability to illustrate the interconnection of all life,

ki so sposobni ilustrirati medsebojno povezanost vsega življenja,

I started storm chasing in 2008

sem leta 2008 začela loviti nevihte,

after my daughter said, "Mom, you should do that."

ko je moja hči rekla: "Mami, ti bi to morala početi."

And so three days later, driving very fast,

In tako sem se tri dni zelo hitre vožnje kasneje,

I found myself stalking a single type of giant cloud called the super cell,

znašla na zasledovanju velikanskega oblaka, ki se mu reče super celica,

capable of producing grapefruit-size hail

ki lahko naredi točo, veliko kot grenivka

and spectacular tornadoes,

in spektakularne tornade,

although only two percent actually do.

čeprav se to zgodi v samo dveh odstotkih.

These clouds can grow so big, up to 50 miles wide

Ti oblaki lahko zelo zrastejo - do 80 kilometrov v širino,

and reach up to 65,000 feet into the atmosphere.

v atmosferi pa dosežejo višino tudi do 19 800 metrov.

They can grow so big, blocking all daylight,

Lahko so tako veliki, da prestrežejo vso sončno svetlobo

making it very dark and ominous standing under them.

in je zelo temno in zlovešče, ko stojiš pod njimi.

Storm chasing is a very tactile experience.

Lovljenje neviht je zelo čutna izkušnja.

There's a warm, moist wind blowing at your back

Topel, vlažen veter ti piha v hrbet ...

and the smell of the earth, the wheat, the grass, the charged particles.

... vonj zemlje, pšenice in trave, nabiti delci ...

And then there are the colors in the clouds

In nato so tu barve v oblakih,

of hail forming, the greens and the turquoise blues.

ko nastaja toča: zeleni in turkizno modri odtenki.

I've learned to respect the lightning.

Naučila sem se spoštovati strele.

My hair used to be straight.

Moji lasje so bili včasih ravni.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

I'm just kidding.

Samo šalim se.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

What really excites me about these storms

Kar me res navduši pri teh nevihtah,

is their movement, the way they swirl and spin and undulate,

je njihovo gibanje - način, kako se zvijajo in vrtijo in valovijo,

with their lava lamp-like mammatus clouds.

s svojimi lava-svetilkam podobnimi mammatus oblaki.

They become lovely monsters.

Postanejo ljubke pošasti.

When I'm photographing them,

Ko jih fotografiram,

I cannot help but remember my grandfather's lesson.

ne morem, da se ne bi spomnila lekcije mojega dedka.

As I stand under them,

Ko stojim pod njimi,

I see not just a cloud,

ne vidim samo oblaka,

but understand that what I have the privilege to witness

ampak razumem, da imam čast opazovati

is the same forces, the same process in a small-scale version

enake sile, enak proces v manjši različici,

that helped to create our galaxy, our solar system, our sun

ki je pomagal ustvariti našo galaksijo, naš sončni sistem, naše sonce

and even this very planet.

in celo naš planet.

All my relations. Thank you.

Vsi smo povezani. Hvala.

(Applause)

(Aplavz)