autofantasia's photos with the keyword: store

For this week's Sunday Challenge , which had the theme of slogans . I found this one on the side of a Boyes delivery wagon/lorry as it was being unloaded outside the rear of their Northallerton store. The shot was taken from the front corner of the truck looking up towards and along the side of the trailer unit. The business was started way back in 1881 when William Boyes opened a small outlet in Eastborough, Scarborough selling odd lots and remnants from merchants. Since then the company has continued to grow, the range of goods they offer has increased dramatically and they now operate over fifty stores. The majority of them are in located in Yorkshire and the North East of England, but they also have stores in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. People looking for "Good Value" (defined by the company as a combination of quality and price) visit Boyes because "they have built a reputation for selling a massive range of quality goods at bargain prices, selling virtually everything for the Home and Family, all with friendly and helpful service". You can find out more about the company by following the link below: www.boyes.co.uk

For this week's Sunday Challenge , for which we had to use the online random point generator to generate (not surprisingly) a random point that we then had to visit and photograph. Sounds easy, but if you live in a rural location more often than not the random points were in the middle of nowhere and barely accessible. So, I reduced the parameters somewhat so as to hopefully get some points in town that I could get to easily and eventually it sent me to Friarage Street in Northallerton, which is where they are currently building a new Marks & Spencer food store. The shot I've posted was taken from the corner of the building site looking up at one of the gable ends where they've rather interestingly left many of the bricks protruding out. At first glance I thought they were all sticking out an equal distance, but on closer inspection (although perhaps not evident from this shot) I found that the amount they stick out decreases as you get nearer the apex of the building. I'll bet that was a fun job for someone and I can't help but wonder if they were left asking ... what's the point of that then? By the way, I've added a screen shot of this random point from Google into the Notes. Interestingly nearly all of those buildings have been demolished, including the bungalow (top centre) to facilitate the construction of this new store.

Produced for this week's Sunday Challenge , which as you might expect had the theme of Halloween . This is a shot I took of a Halloween costume purchased from our local Wilko store. Although the material looked rather cheap, well it did only cost me £5.00, I liked the mask and felt it offered some real potential for the challenge. So I pinned it carefully to a large tree that stands at the bottom of our garden and took a few snaps before selecting this one to do some processing on. I played about with the levels etc. and added in the eyes using a mixture of PhotoShop and PaintShop Pro to create the final image you see here. For those that are interested in such things you'll find a copy of the original shot in the Notes. And all this goes to prove that ghosts do come out in the daylight ... they just wait for you in the shadows! Please view large ... that's if you dare! ;)