Watch Life Unfold—Literally—In These Blooming Flower Timelapses

From Monet to Thoreau to Bon Iver, from drawing, through photography, song, and writing, for millennia, the fleeting beauty of nature has flowered through the annals and eddies of humanity. Apt for capturing those facets of nature that are invisible to the naked eye, through the medium of time-lapse videography, videographer David de los Santos, channels it to its full potential.

In a sequence of over 5,000 frames of vegetative glory, Santos reveals that the budding lives of some of nature's most precious gems, including lillium, hibiscus, and the moth orchid. Just a few of the vibrant life-forms in his time-lapse video video make us wish there were more plants that could open and close at will than the terrifying Venus flytrap.

This is Santos’ first time-lapse project, but fear not— he has plenty plenty more nature and urban photographs on his website.

h/t Kuriositas

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