Seeing

Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a famous French photographer who specialized in animal photography but then began to do aerial photography of places around the world. He has produced many books of his landscape photographs taken from helicopter and even balloon. His work often was related both politically and aesthetically. He wrote a book called '365 days: Earth from the Air' which this image was a part of:

This park is the largest protected space of Africa, it surrounds the Etosha Pan a great basin covered in salt, which transforms into a lake for a few weeks out of each year. Its water, although a repellent to mammals, allows growth of a blue-green algae, which attracts tens of thousands of flamingos. When the basin dries up, it is covered with grass on which the parks herbivores feed. Many areas such as this are protected in name only and are still exploited, as agriculture is practiced in nearly have of the protected areas in the world.

Arthus-Bertrand use the aerial shot to show the majesty of nature, and beauty in the startling shapes of bizarre plants and animals formed by the shoreline of this lake, which can be seen from the sky.

Shots like the photo of the lake and this of the Gorge of Bras de Caverne on the island of Reunion which was taken to show what was being lost to agricultural or urban use.

This photographer shows what's lost and leaves it to you to decide if it matters to you and if you will do anything about it.

Thesis is a proposed idea, anti-thesis is the conflicting idea. The synthesis is the answer, a solution by reconciling the common truths at a higher level, therefore a stronger, newer thesis is made some examples are:

'Being / Non-being / Becoming,
subjective / objective / absolute, or
symbolic / classical / romantic.'

http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/t.htm

The thesis of Yann Arthus-Bertrand's work is that the destruction of nature is detrimental to deeper needs of people, such as the need for a sunrise, a natural beauty around them, while the anti-thesis of this is that the forests have to be cleared and rivers tamed for expansion of cities and towns. The synthesis is for each person to decide, how far do you go for expansion, and how much do we need of nature?