Here are some random flowers I photographed outside the Hesburgh Library at the University of Notre Dame. There is a reflection pool just beyond these plantings, but I had to crop it out as this entrance was being worked on during our visit and there was construction ‘stuff’ everywhere. Even with the low vantage point I had to airbrush out high-reach equipment, etc. Oh well. Good excuse to go back… right?!
Byron ‘Buster’ Bluth (*describing his new construction job*): “…I like it here… and the language these guys use… rough! One of the guys told me to take my head out of my bottom and get back to work! (*cackling laughter*) My bottom!”
Tony Hale – Arrested Development
About this image: digital photograph, lightly modified
Refrigerator Magnate 
I love the, um, thing you did with the colors. There’s probably a word for that, but I don’t know it.
Thank you, Laura!
Close enough for me!
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Are those flowers or flowering weeds?
Hahaha…
depends on the gardener, I guess.
Unless you are me.
In which case I’ve killed any/all flowers and any/all weeds are thriving.
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Tell me that’s not Jesus on the wall? Hmm, so he went to Notre Dame too?
That, my dear loon, is Touchdown Jesus. You will note from his ‘form’ that he is signaling a Notre Dame touchdown.
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I hear Touchdown Jesus has his own FB page. 🙂
I love how you tweaked the colors on the photo!
Ha! I hadn’t heard that before, but I sure believe it!
Thank you very much, Ms. C… I tried several different looks, but this one was my favorite.
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I’m so going to friend Touchdown Jesus.
You mean…
you’re not a page administrator, Loon?!
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I also like the color thing you did. Pulling the pink out of The Mines of Moria in a way but only to compare. It’s almost a foreign cluttered vertical pinball Japanese… thing that the pickers found. Awesome!
That is very kind of you to say, sir, thank you!
Hahaha… 31 years old and still trying working on ‘coloring in the lines’…
some day I’m gonna nail it…
I can just feel it!
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It’s beautiful mr. SIG 🙂
I’m so happy to hear you liked it, Ms. B…
thank you!
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The Mural, is it? looks almost like avante garde chrystals /stained glass. And of course, I always like pink 😀
It is, indeed, Spectra! Good eye! From the ND website::
‘…From a technical perspective, Professor Winkler wrote about the mural saying that “Millard Sheet’s painting was converted into a mosaic by the Cold Spring Granite Company. … The mural is composed of 324 panels, of which 189 are precast panel units. The remaining 135 are solid granite and Mankato stone, used for background panels. In all, 81 different stones, in 171 finishes, and from 16 countries, were used in fabrication. … The following kinds of stone were utilized: 46 granites and syenites; 10 gabros and labradorites; 4 metamorphic gneisses; 12 serpentines; 4 crystalline marbles; and 5 limestones.”…’
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So, you’ve been rolling about on the ground again, Robert!
Hahaha…
never fails, S.E… never fails!
(Give me a camera and it’s inevitable I’ll soon be covered in mud)!
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May we see a photo of that please?
Hahaha…
I would be so well camouflaged it would be quite a challenge to distinguish me from whatever I just finished rolling through!
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Very nice indeed. 🙂
Thank you very much, Ms. F!
That is quite kind of you!
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Love the soft touch of color, SIG. And, you are talented with the airbrush. I’m always amazed at what you can ‘hide’.
Thank you very much, Ms. D!
I wish there would have been just a little less ‘stuff’ behind those flowers… just not quite enough information to do a good job of ‘rebuilding’ the entrance (for me, anyway) … oh well.
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Beautiful photo, Inky and amazing airbrush job! I’d never have guessed there was construction equipment anywhere – looks so serene.
Thanks very much, Dishy!
Annabelle and I were there over the summer, so there didn’t seem to be many people roaming about. Which probably also explains the construction, I guess!
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Very cool pic! 😀
Why thank you, Nancy!
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ART is better than reality … even ironic ART
Sure seems to beat much of my reality, anyway!
Thank you very much for stopping by again, F.T.!
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That’s an amazing picture. I’d buy it. And then frame it and put it in my house and pretend I took it so people would think I was talented…
I’m so happy you stopped by (and you liked this shot),
but I’m sure people already realize you are very talented, so the rest is just details, right?!
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Cool photo and cool show 🙂
Thank you very much, Nigel!
It was a great show, wasn’t it?! I think I’ve seen every episode at least twice.
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Your an airbrushing pro because I don’t see anything but a great picture.
That is very kind of you, Mel!
Fortunately once I got this low most of the ‘stuff’ was already taken care of. I only had to take out a random boom/bucket and a few other things like that.
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I love the muted colors, definitely worth a revisit.
I’m so happy to hear that, thank you!
My thoughts exactly (maybe during football season, even)!
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Great shot my friend and what you did in the picture are truly touch of an artist 🙂
I thank you very much for your great kindness, Jake!
I sincerely appreciate it, sir!
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cool shot. love the little bit of color.
Thank you very much, U.M.!
It’s such a cool place… no matter what I did I knew it would be pretty hard to screw it up. Which is always a nice feeling.
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Now I just really want to watch some Arrested Development. And photograph a flower.
Don’t know where that second desire is coming from.
It was a great show, Meagan! I think you’d like it (great characters/dialogue… and the writers managed to tie so many details together)… it’s very funny.
Hahaha… flower(s)?! Huh?!
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Classy looking photo. I like how the pink stands out against the B&W
Thank you very much, Mr. M!
I tried a few different variations of this, but the selective color seemed to be my favorite.
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Beautiful pink flowers which stand out in the picture! 😀
Thank you very much, Cristina!
I wish I was this good at growing flowers!
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Sometimes, it just is necessary to take things out of a photo to make it match what we want it to. Since, umm, people are so rude as to do work around where we want to shoot. 🙂 Great image. 🙂
Hahaha… I know, right?!
Construction was NOT to begin until after my visit!
Or they could have at least put everything away for a few hours.
Thank you very much, Katie!
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well, based on the construction site you saw, you did a great clean-up job with this. thanks for sharing!
Thank you very much!
Fortunately the low vantage point took care of most of it…
otherwise it would have been beyond my pay-grade!
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Nice photo Inky! Love the posies! I also didn’t get over here but I wanted to say that the General’s photo below is outstanding…I like how that turned out!
That is very kind of you to say, Mary… thank you!
I’m very happy to hear you liked it (I was fairly happy with it, for the most part)!
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The touch of muted color is a nice effect. That big, tall, windowless structure is the library?
Thank you so much!
There are some windows in there… they really get ‘covered up’ from this angle, though, don’t they?
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great picture my friend.
Thank you very much, JB!
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Very nice! I would probably be pretty mad if I knew how this looked with the construction equipment. I cloned a sprig of mistletoe out of a picture the other day and thought I was BAD. ASS.
Yeah, it had a bit of a different feel with all the random ‘stuff’ strewn about everywhere.
Hahaha… as you should have, U.M…
Kicking ass and taking
namesstamps…🙂
“Something’s gone wrong…” 😀
“It’s one of the least reliable tricks…”
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