Lens-Artists PC: Curvy stairs

Here is a collection of my more or less curvy staircases from Rome, Slovenia and the curviest garden of all times right here in Tuscany.

I was happy to see Leya’s theme for this week’s Lens-Artists photo challenge. Curves are dear and near to my heart.

When I saw Sofia’s lovely staircase in her post for this challenge, I was reminded of mine and told her that I might make a post with nothing but staircases. And then I saw Sarah’s monochrome staircase and made up my mind: staircases it would be.

Five galleries follow from five locations.

We start in an ordinary Roman apartment building where amore’s father lives on the ground floor. I always look up and sometimes click but I only ascended the stairs one time.

Not fully curvy but piano-shaped. No tricks or altering involved, only flash/no flash and lights on floors on or off.

Up #1 without flash.

Up #2 with flash.

Up #3 with my first Canon.

Down.

The following are four glimpses of a grand staircase in Nebotičnik, The Skyscraper, a residential building with the terrace bar in Ljubljana, Slovenia. When built, in 1933, it was the highest building in middle Europe with its 13 floors. We were lucky because we were allowed to descend on foot. It was my first and only time to see this staircase.

A look up from the ground floor.

Down from the bar.

One more from the bar.

Downward.

Here is a short but lovely staircase to the Piran lighthouse. I visited it last September for the first time.

Down.

Up.

More up.

Škocjanski Zatok is a nature reserve on the Slovenian coast with a special emphasis on birds. This structure won acclaim and awards. It is full of interesting info on bird migration and free to visit.

Up.

The roof.

The lowest floor is below the water level.

Photobombing.

For the end I have saved a place that first comes to mind when someone says curvy. It is 15 minutes from me and currently under maintenance. French artist Niki de Saint Phalle lived here and created the world around here with her husband Jean Tinguely and friends. This is how Il Giardino dei tarocchi, or the Tarot Garden, came to be. She is the queen of curves. Here are some of her staircases.

Flat stars but everything else is curvy, including three friends on my first visit in 2013.

These stairs are not safe to walk.

But all the others are a go.

I’d need a 3-D camera.

If the stairs are flat, they have round ornaments.

And curvy numbers.

Must add some.

Niki’s Nana in Capalbio. Make no mistake.

For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, hosted by Leya: Curves

This day in my blogging history

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  2015: Let flying dogs fly

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  2017: Tame your dragon – A Ljubljanica boat ride

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  2018: Men’s Thursday Doors. This is Jože Plečnik’s church on the Ljubljana Marshes.

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  2020: Imagine: you’ve just given birth in the quarantine and then a 5+ earthquake wakes you up and you have to go out in the street. And then it starts to snow.

  It’s the dawn
  of the new
  raw
  awe.

  Awening
  ewening
  weaning
  meaning.

  (Read on.)