Aaron has been inspired by photographers such as Andreas Gursky, looking into organised landscapes, very repetitive patterns with in incredible large landscapes, showing such a vast amount of production in one area, how we mass produce at such a rate it becomes so full of colour and goings on, it reminds me of a wheres wally book, or from a distance looks like a type of abstract waterfall of colours, really quiet beautiful.
http://c4gallery.com/artist/database/andreas-gursky/andreas-gursky.html
a link with some nice writing about the artists, taking about his systematic aspects in his work.
My first suggestion would be to look into Edward Burtynsky, he has a dvd called ' Manufactured landscapes ' which will help inspire your want to photograph vast scale area's, he shoots a lot of work looking down with repetitive patterns, and is very concerned with oil and consummation.
he was very much inspired by a large mine that made him then start photographing at such a large scale & make fantastic work! he took plenty of time contacting cooperations to gain access to the place he made work in, he try's to challenge the audience into what there see'ing, he makes it look incredible, but when you look at it more and more you begin to realise what a bad thing is happening, and the scale and rate of it happening is very scary.
http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/
Coming away from waste, but staying with the idea of repetitive pattern, Massimo Vitali make some works from beaches and parks which where packed out with people, he shot the images from above creating very colourful pieces of work! I think its really interesting to look at other ways in how ' organised & repetitive patterns work in people as well as materials.
http://www.massimovitali.com/
Nadav Kander made a series called ' Yangtze, The Long river, absolutely stunning series of photographs shot in very surreal looking weather conditions, the colours always appear very daunting & ear, the images below are some thing in the series with a some what vast & repetitive feel to them bringing in. the second image down is by far my favourite, the vibrant colours of the clothes against the strangely lighten landscape looks mad! must be such a nice experience to turn up at such a scenery & have the chance to photograph a really beautiful moment.
http://www.nadavkander.com/
Hopefully that gives you some image refence, can also try http://vimeo.com/daylightmultimedia has some real good documentrys on it, I prefer to view something visually as I cant really take writing in so well.
oh and not to forget a few images from Jason Koxvold, one of my all time favourite photographers. makes very clean & fresh looking photos looking like neatly organised & made sets, really interesting way of work and really catches the human eye.
