Helix staircase in the Luma Tower, Arles, France, September 2025
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Copyright Debbie Smyth, 7 June 2026
Posted as part of One Word Sunday
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Travel with Intent 
Just noticed all your One Word Sunday dates are off one day. They’re all Saturday dates.
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Oh thank you, Janet. I just add 7 for each one so might never have noticed I’d gone wrong!
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Here is my entry for ‘swirl’ 🙂
https://wp.me/p3RE1e-or2
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Round and round we go.
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🙂
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I’ve copied your swirling staircase!
https://hopsskipsandjumps.com/2026/06/07/swirl/
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And with a staircase in a bookshop that I love!
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I like how it turned out nicely in black and white! My entry here:
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That is an amazing image of a staircase. So well done!
Here is mine for this week. https://heavenssunshine.com/a-swirly-vine/
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Quite the staircase!
Here’s mine: Swirling Clouds | Out of My Write Mind
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Wow! At first I thought it was the drum of a washing machine!
https://junkboattravels.blogspot.com/2026/06/swirl.html
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What a stunning staircase! I never succeeded in capturing one properly – wrong lens….Anyway, here’s my rather different swirl: https://suejudd.com/2026/06/07/swirl/
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Your Swirl is similar to mine…but yours is real and mine fake (well my first mage is fake). Here is the link:-https://davidoakes-images.com/2026/06/07/ows-one-word-sunday-challenge-swirl/
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That’s a gorgeous swirl, Debbie.
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Thanks, Janet
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Cool!
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Absolutely. I’m sure you can imagine I spent a lot of time taking photos of this 🙂
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Yes, I can.
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We saw that building from the outside and would love to have gone inside but it was closed. So interesting and unique.
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Yes, you were unlucky. There’s often a good exhibition or two inside the tower. And plenty in the surrounding buildings. Plus a pleasant garden. An amazing revival of of this area in the last 10 years or so.
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We did explore the gardens at length. So gorgeous
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Beautiful – and they do different things in the garden each year. I love those lilies!
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wow
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It’s a striking staircase that suits the shiny Gehry tower.
I took this looking up into the staircase. At the top is a rotating mirror that adds to the confusion of a double staircase.
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i was dizzy just looking at it
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Great staircase, magnificently caught on paper – is what I wanted to write but it’s different now with digital cameras, I guess. You know what I mean, though.
Here is my swirl: https://picturesimperfectblog.com/2026/06/06/make-your-own-water-tornado/
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Yes, I know what you mean.
That said, I do print a lot of my photos. I love touching them and feeling that I’ve finished.
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Good for you. I do photobooks (on the insistence of my grandkids). I haven’t had the perfect shot yet that I really want to blow up.
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