What I have gathered through some quick research is that aesthetics truly has no one specific definition. What aesthetics is in photography is based on the individual taking the photograph, it is what they constitute as 'beauty'. What makes the photo beautiful. Photography is a form of an art and aesthetics is really what makes up the art. For some people this may be what draws your eye to the photograph such as specific colors or a specific scene.
Below is an article that helped me with learning what aesthetics in photography was:
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~wangz/project/imsearch/Aesthetics/ECCV06/datta.pdf
Here is an interesting quote I found on aesthetics:
“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”
― Alfred North Whitehead
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/aesthetics
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