Ganesh a few hours spent by You, Ravi and Raj in the jungle are indeed a free ride for many of us into the aspects of nature hitherto un-noticed. Thanks for the ride! Having said this there's notable difference between the images considered art and this image so aptly summed up by you "Our art, being an opinion, thanks to only the limited five senses that we are born with, won't even last a few years of our life time. Something which appeared like a "work of art" does not appear so anymore." I think it's the shift in perspective which matters the most. In normal art-images objects are often used as syllables or sentences to evoke a hidden subtext. It depends upon the dexterity of the photographer whether or not S'he is able to fix viewer's attention as intended through grammatical & syntactical use of objects. So the larger picture pictures an idea. But here in doing what you are doing we get to see the objects as "things in themselves" ? The idea you've been exploring now for quite some time.
Both types require different training for viewer as well. Whereas in the former requires cursive vision, parts of stills assembling and running a time lapse in our mind to convey subtext, the latter requires focussed attention to decipher the subtle art of nature's construction. As Raj said It's like meditation. The slow process of revelation. But here too our mind takes a tumble and reads prejudices in the image, such as I likening the leaf to a sentient, conscious being "contrasted" to the subdued background. I'm reading heirarchy in the image. Imagine!! How the simple act of seeing deconstructs our being. I'd be interested in knowing what went in your mind while processing, and prior to that, framing. Did you grapple with some order in your mind?
Still reeling