Gell\u00e9rt Gombai, his wife and two children spend much of the year at their home in Budapest, Hungary, but most of their summers in Als\u00f3\u00f6rs. \u201cIt\u2019s a small holiday village on Lake\u00a0Balaton, the largest in central Europe, so it\u2019s often referred to as the Hungarian sea,\u201d Gombai, a freelance photographer, says. \u201cWe\u00a0go to the playground and beach most days, swim, and eat beach food, but even when I\u2019m enjoying my holiday, I\u2019m looking out for interesting moments to capture.\u201d<\/p>\n
On this particular day, the family had eaten hotdogs for lunch, before Gombai had taken the kids, L\u00f3ci and Janka, to the playground. \u201cL\u00f3ci, who was five at the time, was\u00a0jumping between two shadows \u2013 one from a changing room, and the other from a\u00a0building\u2019s roof,\u201d he\u00a0says. \u201cI asked him to stay still for a few minutes while I got the\u00a0shot, and he lay like this on the ground. He\u2019s a big-hearted little clown; I\u2019m so glad he\u2019s\u00a0my son.\u201d When he showed the children, \u201cJanka immediately asked me to take the same shot of her, which often happens. L\u00f3ci said\u00a0it looked like he was\u00a0among mountains, or as though a monster was about to eat him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gombai applied his phone\u2019s \u201cdramatic cool\u201d filter, and made some minor adjustments. \u201cI\u00a0really liked the slightly metaphysical spaces created by light and shadow,\u201d he\u00a0says. \u201cIf\u00a0I\u00a0forget for a moment it\u2019s my son, I see a carefree form lying in the light while the darkness has bitten a large piece out of the space. Even still, it doesn\u2019t feel sad to me. I have the feeling that the light is pushing the darkness apart.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gell\u00e9rt Gombai, his wife and two children spend much of the year at their home in Budapest, Hungary,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-936430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}