Month: May 2013

In a cartoon, I happened to notice wooden window frames at this house of Granny! They made me incredibly happy, because gave me a tip of where to search.
Are there any other cartoons showing window frames? May be you can recall?

When I am told about owners killing wooden houses, this picture immediately comes to my mind:)
Here you are! :)

In the places where wooden houses can be counted on the fingers of one hand, they all had been invented and shot about half a century ago.

As for other towns… Well, in Kostroma, it never came to my mind to write down the address of this house and to learn its history! And it is because the place has heaps of such a beauty! And when you look around all the time, you feel tired of it at some point (though may be you won’t believe:))

Shubins’ House was built as early as 1781, and, for certain, is the oldest wooden building in Irkutsk.

This was virtually the only house survived the fire of 1789, which destroyed almost all the place. Irkutsk knows it also because last year it has been withdrawn from its owners, who could not restore their house and had brought it to a sad state. Then, in August 2012, the house was purchased by a private company ready to refurbish it. And it is very possible, that soon we will see it rise from the ashes.Though, frankly, in late XVIII century it had not any very special carving:)

Unfortunately it is not very often that I find out the history of the house shot. Mostly just because my aim is different. But sometimes you just ask yourself: why this very house survived (like this one, in the very heart of Yekaterinburg)? OK, I sink into sources and learn that, built in 1870s, it was owned by M. Sarafanov, an accountant of Verkh-Iset plant.

And there are no important reasons, why it has survived. Just stands… Dwelling house of 140 years old.

Lucky fate!

There were hardly some pictures I shot in Nizhny Novgorod, as my visit there had been brief. And yes, you should not wait for window frames mosaics from there:)
Yet, I did about five pictures, and one of them shows this unusual cream colored ex-balcony with two windows – “frames” at its sides.

Last two days has seen snow enough for two winters, if not for three ones! So, I scanned my archive to find the most suitable spring photo showing the most snow-covered wooden house.
This is Solikamsk, Perm Oblast. It was the only place where I happened not to shoot some interesting window frames, as waist-tall snowdrifts didn’t allow me to approach them closer than hundred meters!

Two years ago, about the same time, my very first collection of window frames pictures was printed! Of its 100 copies, the last one was sold in last week)))

Now, I am preparing the fourth collection and wonder how time flies…

Night shooting of wooden buildings is not often a success. And this is understandable: they are almost never lighted, and night adventures are not very uncommon at that.
But even without lighting, this house in Yaroslavl looks great!
Though it has almost no signs of Yaroslavl carving style)))