Back in the Transcendental Meditation heyday, the presenters were claiming that the fulltime TM people could levitate (that's a good way to not set the hook, if ya ask me). Turns out they were real photos, but they had to be timed just right, because the meditators were actually hopping straight up from lotus, something that is difficult to do -- but it isn't levitation. This guy in the photo above is way too far off the floor to be hopping in that manner.
Thanks for that. You sum it up nicely.