It’s a simple idea, really. Some simple ideas are also terribly clever. This is one of them.
Use a random point generator to select one or more arbitrary locations within a specified distance of your home (or office, or hotel room, or jail cell other site). Go to that location. Take a photograph.
That’s it. Simple as pie — which, if you’ve ever baked a pie, isn’t necessarily all that simple. Because when the random point generator generates a point, it’s really random. It might be on the roof of a pastry shop, or on private property generously littered with ‘No Trespassing’ signs, or sixty-three yards from the center of a small lake. Getting there can be difficult, and once you get there you still have to decide which way to point the camera.
Luckily for Martin, this point was about halfway between Krickenbach and Stelzenberg, just off Landesstraße L500, which runs through a small valley in the Palatinate Forest. Simple as very good random pie.
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