Created versus discovered aesthetics

[kajarainbow]

While looking at a particularly pretty screenshot for a computer game, I had the thought, "it's like they took the most aesthetic features out of nature and focused upon those". Then I wonder if this is why I don't tend to find real-world natural scenery as awe-inspiring as some people do. Maybe I just haven't mastered the art of extracting the most pretty parts of those?

Or is it that I tend to prefer artificial aesthetics in general? (I've noticed this somewhat, for example I like cities.) How much of the two factors overlap?

And yet I'm able to find aesthetics in things that are just accidents of entropy--particular cracks in paving, etc.