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Photographer Captures “Carefree Light” Shadow Photo of Son

By Drooid · Oct 18, 2026, 2:52 AM UTC · How we work

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Photographer Gellért Gombai captured his five-year-old son Lóci lying between two shadows at a playground in Alsóörs, Hungary.
He asked Lóci to stay still after the family ate hotdogs for lunch.
Gombai applied his phone’s “dramatic cool” filter and made minor adjustments to the image.
He described the photo as a carefree light form with darkness biting space, not sad.

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Photographer Gellért Gombai captured his five-year-old son Lóci lying between two shadows at a playground in Alsóörs, Hungary.
He asked Lóci to stay still after the family ate hotdogs for lunch.
Gombai applied his phone’s “dramatic cool” filter and made minor adjustments to the image.
He described the photo as a carefree light form with darkness biting space, not sad.