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St Basil’s cathedral commissioned by Ivan the Terrible in the 17th century. Ivan had the architect blinded to prevent him designing another as beautiful.

Muscovites stroll through a snowy Red Square in the shadow of St Basil’s.

The fluted domes and great arches of a madressah, or religious college, in the city of Tamerlaine the great (Abu Temir).

The dramatic expanse of the Registan in Samarkand the second city of Uzbekistan.

The misty spray from the Pacific Ocean meets the rocks and dense temperate rain forest of Vancouver Island at Ucluelet.