하늘을 날다: Up in the Air

As the summer of 2014 winds down and the evenings bring a bit of chilly air, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at time spent in mid-air during recent warmer months. This recent collection shows people, animals, and machines jumping, soaring, leaping, diving, falling, and flying, momentarily free from their connection to the Earth. 

A Palestinian man plays with his baby on a beach in Gaza city on September 7, 2014. (Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images)

Maikel Melero of Spain warms up prior to the fifth stage of the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour in the South African savanna of Pretoria on August 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Red Bull, Joerg Mitter)

Lukas Michul, a member of the "dream walker" group jumps from atop rugged rocks overlooking the azure waters of Navagio beach, one of the Greece's most renowned leisure spots on the popular tourist island of Zakynthos on June 23, 2014. This is rope jumping - part diving, part rock climbing, with a touch of engineering. The aim of the "dream walker" project is to jump in 80 amazing places all over the world. (Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images) 

Squad leader Thomas Zielinski, a former high-altitude worker, takes a picture as he jumps from rocks above Navagio beach, on the Greek island of Zakynthos on June 23, 2014. (Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images)

German pianist Stefan Aaron plays an orange piano on a "flying carpet" platform suspended from a helicopter, over the Munich airport on July 23, 2014. The concert was the fourth station of the "Orange Piano Tour". (Reuters/Lukas Barth)

A man representing the devil leaps over babies during the festival of El Salto del Colacho (the devil's jump) on June 22, 2014 in Castrillo de Murcia, Spain. The festival, held on the first Sunday after Corpus Cristi, is a catholic rite of the devil cleansing babies of original sin. (Denis Doyle/Getty Images) 

A rabbit jumps during the Kaninhop (rabbit-jumping) competition in Weissenbrunn vorm Wald, Germany, on September 7, 2014. Competitors take part in three different categories, with an obstacle height ranging between 25 and 40 centimeters. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer) 

A kite sufer participates in the Guinness World Record attempt for the most kitesurfers sailing together at one time on August 31, 2014 in Tarifa, Spain. 352 participants set a new Guinness World Record, breaking the previous record of 318. (Sergio Camacho/Getty Images) 

A soldier jumps through a ring of fire during a tactical training mission in Heihe, northeast China's Heilongjiang province, on March 5, 2014. (AFP/Getty Images)

Jennifer Abel of Canada dives during the women's 3m Springboard final at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, on August 2, 2014. (Reuters/Stefan Wermuth)

An MV-22B Osprey aircraft flies in view of Mount Baker and downtown Bellevue, Washington, on July 28, 2014. Two of the Osprey aircraft were in Seattle in support of Marine Week and Seattle's Seafair festival. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

A surfer jumps off the pier into Port Phillip Bay to take advantage of waves as a storm lashed the Melbourne area on June 24, 2014. (Mal Fairclough/AFP/Getty Images)

Fred Glover, aged 88, a veteran of the 9th Para Battalian watches a parachute jump just outside Rainville during D-Day 70 Commemorations on June 5, 2014 in Ranville, France. (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

Lotus F1 team driver Pastor Maldonado goes off the track after colliding with Sauber driver Esteban Guitiererrez during the British Grand Prix at the Silverstone Race Circuit, England, on July 6, 2014. (Reuters/Paul Hackett)

Skydiver Lauren Wilkerson practices wind tunnel flying at the iFly indoor skydiving facility on May 29, 2014 in Rosemont, Illinois. Guests at the facility are introduced to the sensation of free-fall skydiving as they are lifted into the air by fans which generate an upward draft from 80 to 175 miles per hour inside a 14-foot-wide circular chamber. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Slovak aerobatic group "Ocova Shepherds" paint the sky with gliders at the Slovak International Air Fest SIAF 2014 at the Slovak Air Force Base of Sliac on August 30, 2014. (Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images)

An Arab Israeli teenager jumps from the ramparts into to the Mediterranean sea as his comrades watch, on April 26, 2014 in the ancient Mediterranean port town of Akko, north of Haifa, Israel. (Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images) 

A Bleriot XI-2, the first plane model used by Swiss Air Force, flies during the second week-end of the AIR14 air show on September 6, 2014 in Payerne, western Switzerland. The airshow commemorates over two week-ends the 100th anniversary of the Swiss Air Forces. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)

A Jammu Kashmir policeman performs a daredevil stunt during India's Independence Day celebration in Srinagar, India, on August 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) 

A Swiss Air Force F/A 18 Hornet aircraft releases flares during the Air14 airshow at the airport in Payerne on August 31, 2014. (Reuters/Denis Balibouse)

A recortador jumps over a bull during a competition at the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, Spain, on July 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki) 

Jon DeVore, Jeff Provenzano, Amy Chmelecki and Sean MacCormac of the Red Bull Air Force fly above the Freedom Tower during a wingsuit flight over the Manhattan skyline in build up to the Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach on May 18, 2014. (Andy Farrington/Red Bull via Getty Images)

People walk on the Promenade Des Anglais while a man practices flyboarding at the beach during a warm and sunny day in Nice, France, on September 3, 2014. (Reuters/Eric Gaillard)

Ron Hackworth flies a Northrop N9MB Flying Wing, designed in 1944 and considered the grandfather of the B-2 Stealth Bomber, at the Los Angeles County Air Show at the General William J. Fox Airfield in Lancaster, California, on March 21, 2014. (Reuters/David McNew)

French high-tech venture Parrot's Japanese PR staff demonstrate a mini-drone "Rolling Spider", equipped with four propellers, a camera and detachable wheel protector in Tokyo on August 12, 2014. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images)

A participant jumps a snowmobile in front of the Alexander Column on the Palace Square during a festival of youth street culture in St. Petersburg, Russia, on June 28, 2014. (Reuters/Alexander Demianchuk)

A competitor takes part in the first international waterfall jumping competition held in the old town of Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on August 9, 2014. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic)

Students of Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School participate in a rehearsal for a stunt performance, part of the opening ceremony of the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games, at a stadium in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on August 9, 2014. (Reuters/Stringer)

Hungarian pilot and European champion Zoltan Veres flies under the oldest Hungarian bridge, the 'Lanchid' (Chain Bridge) with his MXS type plane on May 1, 2014 during a Red Bull flying and car show around the Danube River in Budapest. (Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images)

Spectators watch as Sali Riza Grancina performs the winning jump from the Ura e Shenjte bridge during the annual traditional high diving competition, near the town of Gjakova, 100 kilometers south of Kosovo's capital Pristina on August 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu) 

사진으로 보는 금주의 세계 8/30 - 9/5/2014 : Photos of the Week: 8/30-9/5

This week we have a look at the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn, Ecuador's still-erupting Tungurahua volcano, Iraqi forces taking the battle to ISIS, the massive Jurong Rock Caverns below Singapore, a kitesurfing world record in Spain, and an 82-foot-tall white rabbit in Taiwan, as well as many other subjects. 

Leng Yuting, 26, poses underwater for her wedding pictures at a photo studio in Shanghai on September 3, 2014, ahead of her wedding next year. Her fiance Riyang said they had their wedding photographs taken underwater because "it's romantic and beautiful." (Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images)

In this aerial view, fountains of lava, up to 60 meters high, spurt from a fissure in the ground on the north side of the Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland on September 2, 2014. The alert warning for the area surrounding Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano remained at orange then, indicating that it was showing increased unrest with greater potential for an explosive eruption. (AP Photo/Stefano Di Nicolo) 

A dancer poses for a photograph during the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn, New York, on September 1, 2014. The annual parade draws about 1 million people along its 2-mile-long route. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

A three-week-old female White Rhinoceros runs with her mother Tanda, 21, at the Ramat Gan Safari, an open-air zoo near Tel Aviv, on September 3, 2014. The Safari Park reported that they have had two male White Rhinos born at the facility but this one is the first female born there in 20 years. The new female rhino will eventually be transferred to other zoos to take part in the White Rhino reproduction project aimed at increasing the population of this species in a zoo. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)

Looking down on the clouds and rivers of Bangladesh from orbit, aboard the International Space Station on August 30, 2014. (NASA)

Workers from a company outsourced by Mexico's state-owned oil company Pemex navigate the contaminated Hondo River as they work to remove premium gasoline from the water, caused by a pipeline spill near the town of Tierra Blanca, Mexico, on August 31, 2014. According to PEMEX, the August 27 spill was caused by an illegal tap in the pipeline by criminals trying to steal fuel. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez) 

More than 1,000 Paramilitary policemen take part in an exercise in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China, on September 2, 2014. (Reuters/China Daily)

Brett Gardner of the New York Yankees dives into second base on the back end of an attempted double during the first inning in a MLB baseball game at Yankee Stadium on September 3, 2014 in New York City. Gardner was tagged out on the play. (Rich Schultz/Getty Images)

The Tungurahua volcano throws ash and stones during an eruption seen from Banos, Ecuador, on August 31, 2014. The volcano entered an eruptive phase in 1999 and continues to this day. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Spanish bullfighter Alejandro Talavante performs during a bullfight in San Sebastian de los Reyes, Spain, on August 30, 2014. In August hundreds of villages around Spain celebrate their patron saints, with bullfights, music and parties on the streets.(AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

The heads of four fighting bulls bleed on the slaughterhouse of the bullring after being killed during a bullfight in San Sebastian de los Reyes, Spain, on August 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

A woman cleans an installation of television sets at the booth of Vestel during the first press day of the consumer electronics trade fair "Internationale Funk Ausstellung" (IFA) in Berlin on September 3, 2014. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images) 

Cars sit on a street damaged by heavy rains in Veracruz, Mexico, on September 2, 2014. Two separate tropical storms closed in on Mexico from both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans on Tuesday. (Reuters/Jonatan Rosas)

Jin Jeong of Korea plays a shot during the first round of the Omega European Masters golf tournament at Crans-sur-Sierre Golf Club on September 4, 2014 in Crans-Montana, Switzerland. (Stuart Franklin/Getty Images)

Iraqi security forces and Shiite militiamen fire at ISIS militant positions during an operation outside Amirli, some 105 miles (170 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, on September 3, 2014. (AP Photo)

Iraqi security forces hold a flag of the ISIS they captured during an operation outside Amirli, Iraq, on September 1, 2014. Aid began flowing into the small northern Shiite town in Iraq on Monday, a day after security forces backed by Iran-allied Shiite militias and U.S. airstrikes broke a two-month siege by insurgents in a rare victory by government forces. (AP Photo) 

A boy swims in a pond in Lalitpur, Nepal, on September 1, 2014. (Reuters/Navesh Chitrakar)

A man walks through a small path in the middle of the mountain in his way to the village of Chupon, Peru, on September 1, 2014. The village lies in the Peruvian Andes in the province of Ayacucho and houses about 30 peasants that subsist on farming corn and potatoes. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) 

Visitors tour one of two completed caverns at the Jurong Rock Caverns, before its opening in Singapore on September 2, 2014. The Jurong Rock Caverns, the first commercial underground facility for liquid hydrocarbons storage in Southeast Asia, opened on Tuesday. When all five caverns are completed, the facility located 150 meters below the ground will be able to store up to 1.47 million cubic meters of liquid hydrocarbons, equivalent to 600 Olympic-sized swimming pools. The remaining three caverns are expected to be completed in 2016. (Reuters/Edgar Su)

Diego Ferreira, right, punches Ramsey Nijem during the second round of a lightweight mixed martial arts bout at UFC 177 in Sacramento, California, on August 30, 2014. Ferreira won in the second round. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

A health worker sprays a man with disinfectant chemicals as he is suspected of dying due to the Ebola virus as people look on in Monrovia, Liberia, on September 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

A kite surfer participates in the Guinness World Record attempt for the most kitesurfers sailing together at one time on August 31, 2014 in Tarifa, Spain. 352 participants set a new Guinness World Record, breaking the previous record of 318. (Sergio Camacho/Getty Images) 

A devotee daubed in colored powder prays as she takes part in the immersion of the idols of the Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity on the fifth day of the ten-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai on September 2, 2014. Ganesh idols are taken through the streets in a procession accompanied by dancing and singing, and later immersed in a river or the sea, symbolizing a ritual seeing-off of his journey towards his abode, taking away with him the misfortunes of all mankind. (Reuters/Danish Siddiqui)

Unmarked Military vehicles burn on a country road in the village of Berezove, eastern Ukraine, on September 4, 2014, after a clash between pro-government troops and Russian-backed separatist militia. Separatist rebels have made major strides in their offensive against Ukrainian government forces in recent days, drawing on what Ukraine and NATO says is ample support from the Russian military. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

The dead body of Ukrainian government soldier hangs from an overhead high-voltage power line onto which he was seemingly flung when his armored personnel carrier was hit by a shell in the village of Novokaterynivka, eastern Ukraine, on September 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

A man flashes the V sign as he drives a motorcycle with his owl and dog at the Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 30, 2014. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images)

The Jacobite steam train crosses the Glenfinnan Viaduct in Scotland on August 31, 2014. (Reuters/Russell Cheyne)

Health workers push an Ebola patient who escaped from quarantine from Monrovia's Elwa hospital, into an ambulance in the center of Paynesville in this still image taken from a September 1, 2014 video. The patient, who wore a tag showing he had tested positive for Ebola, held a stick and tried to get away from doctors when they arrived on the scene attempting to catch him. The patient was walking through a local market in search of food. (Reuters/Reuters TV)

Thousands of dead "popocha" fish float in the Cajititlan lagoon in Tlajomulco de Zuniga, Jalisco State, Mexico, on September 1, 2014. At least 48 tons of fish turned up dead in a lagoon in western Mexico and authorities are investigating whether a wastewater treatment plant is to blame. Officials in the state of Jalisco said late Sunday it was the fourth case of mass deaths in the Cajititlan lagoon this year. (Hector Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images)

Landscapers trim grass in front of Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman's latest creation, a 25 meter (82 ft) white rabbit, as it leans up against an old aircraft hangar as part of the Taoyuan Land Art Festival in Taoyuan, Taiwan, on September 2, 2014. Hofman's big yellow duck drew millions of visitors as it toured the island last year and festival organizers are hoping the rabbit will do the same. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

A soldier attempts to extinguish flames at a military area in Brasilia on September 1, 2014. Drought, high temperatures and low humidity have caused fires to start at several places in Brasilia, according to officials. (Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino)

An injured protester is taken from an ambulance at a hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan, on August 30, 2014. Pakistani police fired tear gas at thousands of protesters as they tried to march toward the prime minister's home in the capital on Saturday, blanketing the route with clouds of white smoke and scattering demonstrators. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Three-year-old Hope (center) runs using a wheelchair among other dogs in Vienna, Austria, on September 3, 2014. Hope was found with missing back legs in the countryside and brought to an animal asylum when it was four months old. The dog was taken home two months later by Regine Grosinger who had a wheelchair manufactured for it. (Reuters/Heinz-Peter Bader)

A man walks after his cattle on a hill in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 3, 2014. (Reuters/Navesh Chitrakar)

A Chinese honor guard holds a red flag during an official welcoming ceremony for Malaysia's King Abdul Halim at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on September 4, 2014. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon)