Nature… is that which still manages to exist despite human
interventions in planet earth’s biosphere. A fairly radical point of view, of course, would be to consider humans part of nature.
Culture… is mankind’s deliberate and accidental
rearrangements of biosphere #1 in pursuit of something believed to last for a 1000 years.
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"Simple'...? As a natural phaenomenon that still manages to survive despite human interventions, the tit is simple. It lives its own life parallel to humans and we catch it rest for a moment on the stump but we also feel in that image the next moment with the stump alone and the tit gone. Perhaps, the photograph is simple in the sense that the photographer just got lucky with a snapshot capturing the structured beauty of tit and stump which we recognize because we have a reasonably good chance ourselves of experiencing such in nature if we seek it. But, the fixture of that gorgeous tit-moment may otherwise be the result of excruciating preparations, and thus not a simple thing to achieve, and hence the image takes on the double-value of being both a representation of real nature and unnatural artifice as the moment has been fixed forever. (Or, most likely, a larger image cropped.)
The Scottish highland sheepherder photo has culture in the foreground at the outskirts of a foreboding natural environment dominating the frame, black and white like something half-forgotten.
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