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PHOTOGRAPHS BY ZSÓFIA PÁLYI
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By Whitney Johnson, Director of Visual and Immersive Experiences
“The place seems to not have changed much,” National Geographic photo editor Julie Hau tells me, when asked about the pictures you’re seeing in this newsletter.
Like photographer Zsófia Pályi, who spent summers at Lake Balaton in western Hungary, Julie also visited as a kid. It was “such an adventure,” Julie recalls of the massive lake inside a landlocked country.
For others, writes Dan Stone in our summery magazine story, Lake Balaton was a respite: From the 1960s to ’80s, German families separated by the Berlin Wall reunited on its shores for vacation. (Pictured above, a boy frolicking in the shallows.)
But for me? These images just exude the bright colors and carefree spirit of summer, enhanced by the cyan waters of central Europe’s biggest lake.
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