Gary K. Smith / Venetian window box with succulents and cyclamen Venice, Italy, April.

Gary K. Smith / Window box with Nasturtiums, Curry Plant and Succulents in Venice, Italy. April.

Staffan Widstrand / House in Musteika Village, Lithuania, May 2015.

Loic Poidevin / Windows and shutters, Santorini / Thira Island, Greece, May 2009.

Loic Poidevin / Windows and blue shutters, Santorini / Thira Island, Greece, May 2009.

RHONDA KLEVANSKY / Man walking along row of colourful houses with wooden shutters, Baracoa, Guantanamo province, Eastern Cuba, November 2011.

Franco Banfi / Window with shutters, village of Komiza, Vis Island, Croatia, Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean

Gavin Hellier / The restored Souq Waqif with mud rendered shops and exposed timber beams, Doha, Qatar, Arabian Peninsula 2007

Gavin Hellier / Traditional Gabled houses, Amsterdam, Holland, Netherlands, 2007

Eric Baccega / Traditional house on Ouessant Island, with painted gate, door and shutters. Ile bretonne, Bretagne, France, June 2005

Jouan & Rius / Traditional timber-frame house with shutters and window box, Kaysersberg village, Upper Rhine, Alsace, France, May 2009

Philippe Clement / Geraniums decorating traditional wooden granary / raccard in the Alpine village Grimentz, Valais, Switzerland, July 2009

Inaki Relanzon / Windows and shutters, buildings details, Mahon, Menorca Island, Balearic Islands, Spain

Juan Manuel Borrero / Shuttered window on a house in the Pyrenees mountains, Catalonia, Lerida, Spain

Juan Manuel Borrero / Man closing the shutters to his shop in the medina of Marrakech, Morocco December 2007

Onne van der Wal / Window detail with shutters and net curtains, Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA.

Onne van der Wal / Pink wooden shutters and eaves adorn a traditional home in Hope Town, Abacos, Bahamas.

Roberto Rinaldi / Display of delicious food in Trattoria Gatto Nero, Burano, Italy.

Roberto Rinaldi / Statue of Jesuson the outside wall of a purple house, Burano, Italy.

Roberto Rinaldi / Display of delicious food in Trattoria Gatto Nero, Burano, Italy.

Roberto Rinaldi / Plant pot outside shuttered house, Venice, Italy.

Roberto Rinaldi / Statue of Madonna and Jesus child, Burano, Italy.

Roberto Rinaldi / Blue house, Burano, Italy.

Onne van der Wal / Open shutters on a Bahamian-style house in Great Guana Cay, Caribbean.

Roberto Rinaldi / Decorated window boxes, Burano, Italy.

Russell Laman / Ostracods (ostracoda) displaying bioluminescence, spiralling up from the sand after sunset, three days after the full moon to spawn, Bonaire, Caribbean Netherlands, Caribbean Sea.

Edwin Giesbers / Eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo) perched on broken window of abandoned farm. The Netherlands. July 2020.