A Good Tip Doesn't Hurt

People often ask me how I find the buildings, cars and landscapes that often make up my subject matter. I generally respond, "I get lucky". Which is true much of the time. Often I will open up Google Earth, poke around and decide on an area that looks like it could offer some photo possibilities and point my car in that direction. Other times I'll just be driving on my way somewhere and spot something out of the corner of my eye and (much to my fiancee's chagrin) flip the car around and shoot it.
Sometimes, however, I'll get a great tip from someone on the location of something to shoot. This recently happened at the opening of my show "No Trespassing: Th Beauty in Decay". A very nice lady approached me and was expressing her affinity for an image of a barn I had in the show. She went on to say that there was a barn on her family's land that would make a great subject and even offered to show me where it was.
She was so adamant about it that I took her up on it. She sent me the whereabouts and a couple weeks later I headed to southern Johnson County just before sunset. And she was right, the barn was a thing of beauty. I was also able to capture a nice prairie shot just down the road.
I will definitely keep my ears peeled for future suggestions from other people.