Ansel Adams is arguably the most famous landscape photographer who ever lived, he was an American photographer and environmentalist, which thus gave him a keen eye for representing nature in his work. His black and white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park have been widely reproduced and are well known throughout the world.
Adams help develop the Zone System as a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print. The resulting clarity and depth characterised his images. He mostly used large-format cameras because of the their high resolution helped ensure sharpness in his image, this is similar to Wang Juiliangs techniques which I previously noted.
Along with fellow photographers Willard Van Dyke and Edward Weston, Adams founded the photography Group f/64. This group was created in the 20th century on an invite only bases, their style was creating images which are sharp-focused and carefully framed with a large depth of field. These photographers all created images that were primarily landscape or still life black and white images of nature.
Apart from taking inspiration from Adams amazing compositions and print technicality I have researched into him for some of his specific pieces. I am looking at in detail for inspiration from his images that can be seen in Intimate Nature: Ansel Adams and the Close View, these represent an under recognised and rarely examined aspect of Adams long career, in particular his study of the intimate details of nature through the close view of his camera. He focuses his lens on the form and surface of the natural worlds small details, even though these images aren't as captivating as his Yosemite series they are still strong and powerful in their own light. In these images he captures nature on a more human scale, getting very up close to the nature he captures. When photographing something in more detail a lot closer up, it begins to look more like other objects on the earth. And one can begin to see different patterns and lines, that make the photographs really visually interesting. 
I feel that I could do the same in my own work on waste, by capturing the small details of the waste in the first small scrapyard that I have visited. These objects should look very different up close than they did from afar, this will turn these useless scrap objects into more still life/ sculptor objects. Even though Ansel Adams produced photographs that studied solely on nature, I think that I will be able to use his close up techniques on my photographs of man-made waste to the same affect for the viewer.