--- title: Watch This Video of Flowers Blooming for Instant Relaxation description: Spanish engineering student-turned-artist, David de los Santos Gil took 40,000 photos to make this gorgeous time-lapse film. canonical: https://time.com/3995650/flowers-video-time-lapse-bloom-relaxation/ author: Alissa Greenberg article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-13T08:12:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:08.414Z og:title: This Time-Lapse Video of Floral Blooms Will Fix Everything og:description: It took 14 months to make. 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Give it 3 minutes of your day. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Time-Lapse Video of Flowers Blooming Will Fix Everything That Is Stressing You by [Alissa Greenberg](https://time.com/author/alissa-greenberg/) ## Alissa Greenberg Aug 13, 2015 8:12 AM UTC by [Alissa Greenberg](https://time.com/author/alissa-greenberg/) ## Alissa Greenberg Aug 13, 2015 8:12 AM UTC Spanish engineering student-turned-artist, David de los Santos Gil, who made waves with a stunning time-lapse [video](https://vimeo.com/98276732) of flowers blooming in 2014, released a second [video](https://vimeo.com/135798046) in the series this week that is equally as enchanting. The video, which is again scored by composer Roger Subirana with relaxing, uplifting music, features, among others, hyacinth, hibiscus, daisy, cactus, iris, almond blossom, amaryllis and gladiolus blooms. In a blog post written after he released the first video, Gil wrote that he used basic camera equipment in his home to complete the time lapse, taking a total of 50,000 photos at intervals between one and ten minutes. (The second video required only 40,000.) The process was not without its complications: “Over about every three photos I had to throw out two,” he [wrote](http://www.daviddelossan.com/flores/), saying the issues he encountered ranged from the classic changing light to the more unusual plague of insects. Like Gil’s flowers, however slow the process, the outcome is beautiful. ### See The Best Biology Photos Of The Year  Two Bisons on the Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Lukas Gawenda  A spider at sunset in Predel, Bulgaria. Krasimir Matarov  Parasitoid wasps building clay pots in Borneo, Brunei. Thomas Endlein  Siblings watering newly planted seedlings in Rizal, The Philippines. Ysabel M Victoriano  A leopard in its natural habitat in Karantaka, India. Nagarjun Ram  A farmer protects his family and animals from mosquitos in Gujarat, India. Dimple Pancholi  A tarsier in its natural habitat in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Wolfgang Weinhardt  A plant takes advantage of the available shelter in a dilapidated house in Kolmanskop, Namibia. Kelsey Green  A female blackbird holding a dried mealworm in her mouth in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. Billy Clapham  A chick embryo in a hardened eggshell is sustained until full development in Rizal, The Philippines. Robert Cabagnot  An adult female Italian crested newt stationed below the fresh water surface in Piedmont, Italy. Matteo Riccardo Di Nicola  A sea turtle eating a jellyfish in The Maldives. 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