Photographing Nature Beyond the Limits of Human Perception | Doris Mitsch | TED

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A few years ago,

Pre nekoliko godina,

I suddenly had a lot of extra time to spend staring out the window.

iznenada sam imala mnogo slobodnog vremena za zurenje kroz prozor.

Maybe you did a little bit of that, too,

Možda ste i sami to pomalo radili

in quarantine, at the start of the pandemic.

tokom karantina na početku pandemije.

And while we were locked down,

I dok smo bili zaključani,

I got kind of fascinated with what was still moving out there.

nekako sam postala fascinirana onim što se i dalje kretalo napolju.

Like the local crows,

Poput lokalnih vrana

who went on with their normal commute

koje su nastavile sa svojom uobičajenom rutom

down the side of the mountain every morning.

niz planinsku padinu svakog jutra.

And up again every evening at crow quitting time.

I opet uzbrdo svako veče kada se završava radno vreme za vrane.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

Birds of prey came out every day and made their rounds.

Ptice grabljivice su izlazile svakodnevno u sopstvene obilaske.

I'm using a process here called photo stacking,

Ovde koristim proces koji se naziva slaganje fokusa,

where you take multiple pictures from a fixed point over time

gde uzmete više slika sa fiksirane tačke tokom vremena

and layer them into one composite photograph.

i slažete ih u jednu kompozitnu fotografiju.

Photo stacking is a way to show the trails of things like stars,

Slaganje fokusa je način na koji prikazujete tragove koje prave zvezde,

fireflies, athletes, airplanes,

svici, sportisti, avioni,

pretty much anything that moves.

u suštini bilo šta što se pomera.

It's a way to make the shape of those movements visible.

To je način da učinite vidljivim oblik tih pokreta.

Most of these have between 500 and 2,000 layers.

Većina ovih ima između 500 i 2 000 slojeva.

They take a long time to build,

Potrebno je mnogo vremena da se naprave,

and a lot of that time is spent just experimenting with which layers to keep in

i veći deo tog vremena se provodi prosto eksperimentišući koje slojeve zadržati,

and which to leave out of the final image.

a koje izostaviti u finalnoj slici.

Here, a group of pelicans came in from one side

Ovde je grupa pelikana stigla sa jedne strane

and noticed something intriguing in the water.

i primetila nešto intrigantno u vodi.

Then another group came in from the other side

A potom je druga grupa stigla sa druge strane

and circled around to check it out.

i kružila okolo da proveri o čemu se radi.

So this isn't one moment frozen in time like a traditional photograph,

Ne radi se o trenutku zamrznutom u vremenu kao kod tradicionalne fotografije,

but something more like a story told in two dimensions

već o nečemu što više liči na priču ispričanu u dve dimenzije

with layers of the fourth dimension.

sa slojevima četvrte dimenzije.

Kind of.

Na neki način.

Looking at flight trails this way,

Posmatrajući tragove letenja na ovaj način,

you really notice some of the rhyming patterns that repeat everywhere in nature,

uistinu primećujete neke obrasce rima koje se ponavljaju svuda u prirodi,

like waves of sound or water

poput talasa zvuka ili vode

or spiraling galaxies,

ili spiralnih galaksija,

whirlpools and storms.

virova i oluja.

And sometimes they seem to sort of sketch out other things

A ponekad se čini kao da prave skice drugih stvari

that are usually invisible to us.

koje su nam obično nevidljive.

Like the thermal updrafts that hawks and vultures ride on,

Poput uzlaznih strujanja na kojima jašu jastrebovi i lešinarke,

finding even the smallest patches of turbulence in the air to carry them.

pronalazeći u vazduhu i najmanje parčiće turbulencije da ih nose.

While I was working on these,

Dok sam radila na ovim slikama,

otkrila sam da su neke lešinarke toliko dobre u ovome

I learned that some vultures are so good at this

that they can soar that way without flapping their wings at all

da mogu tako da lebde a da uopšte ne lepršaju krilima

for hours.

satima.

Which has to be the most meditative way there is to look for carrion.

To mora da je najmeditativniji način koji postoji za traganje za strvinom.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

And this is what it looks like to navigate by shouting.

A ovako izgleda navigacija vriskom.

Bats are characterized as either whisperers or shouters,

Šišmiši se dele na one koji šapuću i one koji vrište,

and we're lucky that the range of our hearing ends

i srećni smo što se naš čujni opseg završava

right about where their voices begin

tačno gde njihovi glasovi počinju

because the shouts can get up to 140 decibels,

jer vriskovi mogu da dosegnu 140 decibela,

as loud as a jet engine.

koliko je glasan mlazni motor.

What we call silence is just the limit of our hearing.

Ono što nazivamo tišinom je prosto granica našeg sluha.

I love to think about that,

Volim da razmišljam o tome,

and about how most other creatures,

i kako većina drugih bića,

from European moles to rainbow trout,

od evropskih krtica do dužičaste pastrmke

find their way by wavelengths of light or sound

pronalaze put upotrebom talasnih dužina svetla ili zvuka,

or fields of electricity or magnetism that our senses just aren't set up for.

kao i električnih ili magnetnih polja za koje naša čula prosto nisu podesna.

And that those are just the ways that we know about.

I to su samo načini za koje znamo.

In the 1930s,

Tokom 1930-ih,

the British ornithologist Edmund Selous studied flocks of starlings,

britanski ornitolog Edmund Selus je izučavao jata čvoraka,

moving together as if they had one mind

koja se kreću kao da imaju jedan um

and wrote a book on his conclusion that the birds must be psychic.

i napisao je knjigu zaključivši da ptice mora da mogu da čitaju misli.

And, you know, there's still no evidence that they're not.

I znate, i dalje nema dokaza da ne mogu.

But we now know that they follow each other

Međutim, znamo da prate jedne druge

with a split-second lag time

sa odstojanjem od delića sekunde

that's just too short for our human sense of time.

koji je prosto prekratak za naš ljudski doživljaj vremena.

And maybe for some predators,

A možda je tako i za neke grabljivice,

like the peregrine falcon in the middle there.

poput sivog sokola tu u sredini.

So these are pictures of group decisions

Dakle, radi se o slikama grupnih odluka

made at a speed that makes them invisible to us.

koje se donose brzinom zbog koje su nam nevidljive.

Pictures of the hidden intelligence in what might look at first random

Slike skrivene inteligencije koja se u prvi mah može činiti nasumičnom,

or even chaotic.

pa čak i haotičnom.

Reminders that the universe isn’t built to our measure

Podsetnici da univerzum nije skrojen po našoj meri,

but operates on systems beyond our perception.

već da funkcioniše po sistemima izvan naše percepcije.

That what we call empty air is anything but empty.

Da je ono što nazivamo praznim vazduhom sve samo ne praznina.

If you're a bat,

Ako ste šišmiš,

it holds the sound of the shape of a hillside.

ispunjena je zvukom oblika planinske padine.

It's also a map of magnetic signals and electrical fields.

To je takođe mapa magnetnih signala i električnih polja.

And a topography of the smells of krill patches and plankton blooms.

Kao i topografija mirisa zona krilova i cvetanja planktona.

We humans have invented whole digital worlds,

Mi ljudi smo izmislili čitave digitalne svetove,

but sometimes we still need to be reminded

ali ponekad nas i dalje valja podsetiti

that there’s more in this heaven and Earth than is dreamt of in our philosophy.

da ima štošta još na nebu i zemlji izvan onoga što je naša filozofija izmaštala.

And that there are endless ways to look at familiar sights,

I da postoje beskonačni načini posmatranja poznatih prizora,

like a bird in flight, with fresh eyes.

poput ptice u letu, iz nove perspektive.

To expand our shared experience in a way that connects us

Kako bismo proširili naše zajedničko iskustvo na način koji nas povezuje

with the rest of the living world.

sa ostatkom živog sveta.

To feel both kinship with our fellow creatures

Kako bismo osetili srodnost sa drugim bićima,

and respect and even reverence for their otherness.

kao i poštovanje, pa čak i divljenje prema njihovoj različitosti.

In the words of the poet and naturalist Jarod K. Anderson,

Rečima pesnika i naturaliste Džeroda K. Andersona;

bats can hear shapes,

šišmiši čuju oblike,

plants can eat light,

biljke jedu svetlost,

bees can dance maps.

pčele plesom prave mape.

We can hold all these ideas at once

Možemo da obuhvatimo sve ove ideje

and feel both heavy and weightless with the absurd beauty of it all.

i da se osećamo i bremenito i lako zbog apsurdne lepote svega toga.

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)