Photographing nature beyond the limits of human perception | Doris Mitsch

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🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Artist Doris Mitsch invites us to revel in the wonders of nature through her dazzling photography: stacked images of starlings in flight, hawks surfing thermal updrafts, bats echolocating through the night sky and more. Revealing the hidden trails created by creatures in flight, her work offers unique insight into the intelligence behind nature's invisible rhythms.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
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0:12.0	The patterns of birds flying together can be mesmerizing to see, and difficult for us humans to understand.
0:19.5	It inspired the work of artist Doris Mitch, who in her TED 2023 talk uses photos to help us understand
0:26.2	the systems that are way beyond our perception.
0:30.0	Stick around after her talk where she sits down with me to expand on her ideas.
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0:57.0	A few years ago I suddenly had a lot of extra time to spend staring out the window.
1:04.6	Maybe you did a little bit of that too in quarantine at the start of the pandemic.
1:09.3	And while we were locked down, I got kind of fascinated
1:13.4	with what was still moving out there,
1:16.5	like the local crows,
1:19.6	who went on with their normal commute
1:21.8	down the side of the mountain every morning.
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