The photographer exposing the secret life of plants

From orchids to the humble artichoke, Emmy winner Neil Bromhall is revealing the beautiful and peculiar life of plants, one quarter-second exposure at a time.

Bromhall's time lapse photography condenses days into seconds, and in the process, captures the secret life of plants. An oak's first leaves dance and a sunflower prickles as it expands; blossom spreads across bows like bacteria on a petri dish. It's the familiar cast in a whole new light, one quarter-second exposure at a time. "I'm not changing nature, I'm revealing it," Bromhall tells CNN. The hard part, he says, is achieving a state of naturalism in a studio. Because despite appearances, all the flora he shoots is indoors, the photographer using dressed sets to approximate the environment.