While she had not been spotted in the exact area we were hiking, I still felt uneasy. Or even worse, a tiger.Ī female Bengal tiger had been roaming the area for the past few months attacking livestock and putting the farmers on high alert. It had gone missing earlier in the day and he feared it had been attacked by a pack of wild foxes. Have you seen my calf?" he asked in Dzongkha, the national language. We walked past a farmer, who greeted us warmly. Over the past two hours of hiking, we had barely seen a soul except for a group of semi-nomadic yak herders who had recently come down to lower elevations for the winter. We had come from Pele La, one of Bhutan's highest passes at 3,407m, which marks the boundary between the west and central parts of the Buddhist Kingdom. BUT of course, I have a lot of friends - most especially the avid photographers - who go through vemodalen! Let me know if you also have the same sentiments.It was midmorning as my guide, Singay Dradul, and I approached a verdant valley in the district of Wangdue Phodrang. So, I never actually felt this… because though there are tons of ‘duplicates’, I still like to make my own and say that “Ah, I shot this!”.
Swedish place names are the source of IKEA’s product names - the original metaphor for this idea was that these clichéd photos are a kind of prefabricated furniture that you happen to have built yourself. “The frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist - the same sunset, the same waterfall - which can turn a unique subject into something hollow and pulpy and cheap.”ĮTYMOLOGY: From the Swedish word vemod which means “tender sadness, pensive melancholy” and then combined with Vemdalen, the name of a Swedish town. The frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist ( Noun / Origin: Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows / ve
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