4.3 - Spring Trees by the Rondout

Once beauty employed the language of the traditional arts, but now it doesn’t. It employs, instead, the language of photography. Makeup nowadays enhances not by covering, but by making the original more like it was than it ever was when left alone. Photography, made in an instant, developed in the dark, in a pool of poison, as a simultaneity, is like the beautiful in this property of always being all there at once. Unlike paintings, which are made bit by bit, over time, in the light, but also out of poisonous materials. 

- Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime - Uncontrollable Beauty, edited by Bill Beckley with David Shapiro 

The combination of a new Hipstamatic lens package and a telephoto lens attachment on my iPhone 4 produced this impressionistic image of spring trees along the edge of the Rondout Reservoir. The glare of the sun made it difficult to see exactly what I was capturing - as well as focus the lens. But I enjoy the element of chance in photography...