This set of photos have been around for a while, but I just saw them again the other day, “floating” around in the internet… and I decided to pay a visit.

I like to think that I’m quite patient and I like to do things in a good way, bordering the perfectionism, but I’m starting to question that after I learned how Natsumi Hayashi makes this photos. 

She has as much patience and perseverance as she has imagination. Any of these photos can take as much as 300 shots before she get’s the one she wants, and I’m not talking about 300 frames a second, I’m saying 300 timed self-portrait jumps. She has to do it just right not to look like she is either jumping or falling, but actually floating. I guess that with all the practice she is starting to do it in less jumps, but still… WOW!

Her daily levitation after the jump:

Natsumi Hayashi