autofantasia's photos with the keyword: lorry

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

Just another take on last week's Sunday Challenge which had the theme of front page news . Basically, the same design as before, but this time put over a timber background with an added drop shadow down the left hand edge of the 'paper' to try and give a more 3D feel to the final image.

This week's Sunday Challenge had the theme of front page news where we were asked to take one of our shots and then set about making it "look like the front of a newspaper" . Initially, I was rather stumped by this one, but then I remembered some shots I'd taken of an accident in Northallerton some time ago. Although I thought they were interesting images, and had had toyed with the idea of trying to see if any of the local papers wanted to use one, I'd never got around to doing anything with them. So I decided to dust one of them off and use it for this week's media challenge. Rather than use an online newspaper generator or template I elected to create my own front page in Microsoft Publisher, but I took my inspiration from the North Yorkshire News which is a local paper distributed free of charge to households across the region. I took careful measurements from a 'real' issue and scanned various elements of it so that they could be incorporated into my own design. The masthead/logo I modified slightly to transform it into the Northallerton News, while the adverts were just dropped in as they were. The biggest problem I had was trying to find fonts on my PC that were similar in style and size to those that are used in the newspaper I'd set out to mimic so to speak. I didn't bother at all with the banner running along the very top of the page, but did try very hard to match those used elsewhere. Once I had the layout looking the way I wanted it I next set about creating both my headlines before writing the article as best I could. If you check in the Notes you'll find a section of an original North Yorkshire News front page for comparison purposes along with a close-up of the article itself just in case the one in the main image is too small to read on screen.

There must be something about this old truck that appeals to me because despite rarely shooting anything this big, I always seem to take a snap of this one whenever I see it!

You won't find many trucks in my photostream, but I did like this old Seddon Atkinson cab. Initially, a British company with a proud heritage, the firm went through many changes over the years before eventually being owned by IVECO who in 2002 transferred manufacturing to their factory in Madrid. Sadly, production of Seddon Atkinson trucks ceased completely in October 2006. Find out more about the history of these old trucks by clicking the link below: www.curtainside.com/history%20S&A%202011.pdf