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There are photographers out there — amateur and pro alike — who refuse to stop at a location to shoot a scene because other photographers are already covering the ground and their shot will not be unique. Turns out, there’s a term for that called vemödalen, compliments of John Koenig’s The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. It’s defined as, “the frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist — the same sunset, the same waterfall, the same curve of a hip, the same closeup of an eye — which can turn a unique subject into something hollow and pulpy…

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