Month: November 2013

This post is NOT about wooden carving.

Yesterday shot from Mstyora, Vladimir Oblast.

Window frames are just gorgeous, of course, but they are just a backdrop for these visitors of the tavern (this is what a sign reads).

Goats and me needs quite different things from this house: I am eager for beauty, that’s why I take photos; they look for something to hide from the rain, that’s why they are here, under the screen

I was eager to treat you with some new window frames from those I had photographed today, yet I could not make my choice!

So, I offer the whole house shot in the town of Stavrov!

Local  asymmetric wooden houses are positioned with their long side facing the street. Many of them are hidden behind cherry and apple trees. But the one I had shot in the afternoon is open to all eyes.

Note the size of a decoration (sort of a roof light) over the roof. Here, they are this tiny!:)

In addition to window frames at the building of Kostroma Registry Office and Alapayevsk Post Office, my collection has one more picture of a window frame in the government service!

This is a police window frame!

I found it at the building of the 7^th Police Battalion for the Central  District of Moscow!

Though the window frame is rather simple, it was a bit of a challenge to shoot it…

By the way, this is the very first window frame from Moscow!

Beyond any expectation, yesterday I was lucky to make some shots in Klin.

It is a bit too early to make any conclusions concerning widow frames, but Klin has one feature that stroke my eye:  nowhere else have I seen that many built-on wooden houses, like the one you can see here.

To myself, I nicknamed them mutants because of incredible diversity of materials used for heightening of the classical mezzanine houses.   Hopefully, people of Klin will not be too mad at me :)

I just cannot stop wondering at the diversity of wooden houses and their details. Fencing of this outstanding house rather than its window frames is an absolute eye-catcher in this picture.

I discovered this turquoise – blue miracle in the town of Gryazovets, Vologda Oblast. And, I think, this kind of fence, with these tiny houses put over the pillars, is just unique.

It is also a rare case when I permitted myself to process the photo: cobweb of wires and two lamp poles ruined the view and prevented from admiring of this azure house and blue sky over it.

Generally speaking, the wires are The Big Evil. I cannot wait when someone invents method of wireless delivery of electricity, which will begin The Golden Age for photographers:)))

 

Yesterda on the Facebook there was an interesting talk about the shutters. That, historically, they were everywhere, and later they vanished in some regions because there was no need in them, but in some areas they have survived.
In search of some clue I had found this photo taken in Yuryevetz; window frames of this type, i.e. with one shutter only, had been in wide use before double shutters appeared (at least, in the Ural Region, and the literature proves it). I am not very sure about other regions, but this point of view seems to be interesting:)))

 do not know the reason yet some window frames in Tyumen have an unusually high board at the bottom, which distinguishes them from their fellows throughout the country. Generally, these high boards are very far from being something striking: say, I in Ivanovo

the bottom of the window frames is always decorated more lavishly, than the top.

Yet windows of Tyumen houses have shutters! And, as far as I can trace, shutters reduce the amount of carving: whenever they are available, window frames are a bit more modest than in the places where they are not in use. As though the carver wasted all the energy into making the shutters:)))

Coming back to Tyumen, not every house has shutters there. Yet even if it has, window frame is still   decorated with relief carving!

So, this broad board under the window is more than just a board. It epitomizes one of the styles of Tyumen window frames!