Window watcher

Regular readers will know all about my fetish for photographing old doors. Well, in Russia I embarked on a new love affair – with windows. The old wooden buildings in Russia often have incredibly ornately carved shutters, usually painted in what would once have been bright colours. The first place that we saw them in numbers was in Krasnoyarsk, but when we walked around the old merchant buildings near the river in Ulan-Ude I seemed to be stopping to take photos at every second house. Here's just a small selection to give you a taste.