Dochtersions: Hello everybody! Under the name "dochtersions" I started, at the suggestion of my dear husband, in sharing my photos, fractals, and also some paintings, and other 2D art here at Renderosity. That was in January of 2010. I still use my two owls as avatar, which is a reduced image of one of my oil paintings.
The name "dochtersions" came into my head as only one, when I was looking for a name for my blog that I started in 2007.
This name is not that strange, as I know that God is my real father and mother at the same time, and I know that God loves me more and deeper than a man can aware of (or at least I think this way)
I live in the South of The Netherlands together with my retired husband. I've had various occupations. In my last job, I was working as an assistant to a paediatrician and a rehabilitation specialist. When I had children, I graduated "health awareness", and gave lectures on various topics, plus vegetarian cooking classes to teenagers.
My husband and I have together two daughters and four grandchildren. Which all live abroad, to be precise in Lacey (WA-USA) and Davos in Switzerland.
I've always been busy with all kinds of creativity. As a child I drew a lot, later pottery, needle art, tapestries, weaving, batik art, macramé, etc. Painting with oil was my last great hobby.
Around about the year 2000 I started having unexplained physical symptoms as well as insomnia, which was later diagnosed as having PTSD. It turned out that I had repressed a traumatized youth. However, the physical symptoms made that I no longer could be busy with my passions, the real painting, and other activities (f.e. reading books, gardening, travelling), which I was doing without a limit.
What I can stay doing well in limited form, is playing music on my mandolin and my guitar, and also to enjoy/listen my favourite music, which is including the cantatas of J.S. Bach and his sons , f.e. also music from G.F. Handel, G.Ph. Telemann, a.s.o. This is also the kind of music that my husband (on its church organ) and I (on my mandolin) play together.
After being diagnosed with PTSD a lot changed and I was forced to look for alternatives in which I could express myself. That is, that for years I started writing, and poetry, which go quite intense and as a sort of automatic. Unfortunately, my knowledge of the English language is not sufficient enough, so I write in my mother tongue, with sometimes a few exceptions. The thoughts come to my mind right at unexpected moments, and it’s wonderful, to surrendering to your train of thoughts.
In the encounter more and more of impossibilities, in connection with, f.e continuous pains, I learned to shift my gaze. Searching for distractions and alternatives, I learned to focus my happy mind on all the wonderful and admirable little things in the world around me.
My husband since 1968 Karel (kareldg on RR) bought a small pocket camera for me, and taught me to work with Fractal Explorer. Through my little Sony camera I learned to look differently, to see deeper; to see the details, the structure, how refined, and just so unique the small ones are in God's creation.
What is one of my daily tasks is trying to support people who suffer from PTSD, but they suffer more in an emotional way, and I can understand them and listen to their story (digital) they trust me.
Renderosity: What projects are you currently working on?
Dochtersions: Of course I would love to take more concrete technical knowledge to me (to acquire), and follow tutorials, how to work with Ultra Fractal, Mandelbulb, etc.. The capabilities of PSP investigate and experiment with it.
The manual of my current camera (Canon PowerShot SX50HS, and as pocket camera Panasonic DMC-TZ35, since 2020 I use a Canon PowerShot SX70HS). I would like to sift through, and experiment with it. But exactly that kind of things, such as reading comprehension, concentration, makes this especially, by the constant dominating intense facial pain, really impossible.
All in all, I continue to look for improvement, while in the meantime trying to be light-hearted, happy and hopeful, to be open to everything that's coming my way. I enjoy art, stay in the nature, the outer man/woman in me, the love that I've been given, to realize this, and to be thankful for. Wherever I am happy with is that I am able to meet so many lovely people through RR. Unfortunately, only digital, but I'm also grateful.
Comments (27)
ronmolina
No thanks!
DarkAngelGrafics
Great shoot....but uuuhhhäääää :) excellent image!!
magnus073
Cool shot here Mies. This reminds me of a few places in Mexico City I ran across. They would stand out in front selling individual sheets of toilet paper to you on the way in.
blinkings
Something I have learned on my trip through life.....the more one needs to go, the less one notices one's surroundings!
Richardphotos
only thing that would disinfect this out house would be a stack of incineration bomb
helanker
HAHAHAHA!! What Dave wrote, happened once to me in Canary Island many years ago in front of alot of restaurant guests. Suddently I didnt feel a need to go there anymore :))) It was too cross-border. I didnt laugh then. Excellent and very fun shot :)))
johndoop
iiiiiiiii maar wat zou de doen als de nood heel hoog is??? Maar wel een prachtige foto!!!!!
sandra46
OH, MY! I'LL WAIT OUTSIDE!
midnightmum
I think I will hold out on this one. I am lost for words, it is not beautiful, still thinking.haha.
Faemike55
hmmmmm. I think I'll go to one on the right I have been in worse
auntietk
I can wait a little while longer! LOL!
mbz2662
Me too, Tara, Me too! lol
bobrgallegos
No thanks, maybe I'll just dig a little hole, LOL!
PHELINAS
Bravo! Il fallait faire cette photo Mies ,il n'y a pas que les fleurs ou les couchers de soleil dans notre existence....Il y a aussi la dure réalité!!! Félicitations!!!!!!
anianiani
This is a very special one..Thanks Mies.
Jennyfnf
HaHa....I wondered what I was going to see. I've seen worse on my travels - not much but they have provided paper here which is thoughtful. Do you think the gozunder is there as a tip box?:-) Mies = finder of the unusual and you make us smile:-)
claude19
...still life ... all very dificult days! What a pity!
whaleman
Not going to happen there, I would look for the nearest bush!
durleybeachbum
Hehe! We are so lucky to live now with clean water and proper plumbing. It's so easy to forget what our recent relations had to put up with.
jayfar
If you've got to go you have to go but I think I would take the pot outside somewhere where there is a tree with big leaves on!!!!
farmerC
een Prachtig stilleven. deze was modern al betegeld.bij ons waren het houten planken. ook nog een hartje in de deur?.
illkirch
Flypaper and some old newspapers would make it even more welcoming
drifterlee
Oh, that's disgusting!
X-PaX
You should also not forget something to close your nose ;)
flavia49
terrific
emmecielle
Thank you... You're too kind, but I decline the invitation! ;-) A great capture, Mies! :-)
danapommet
We had one of these in my younger days. I thought that we were rich because we had two seats. It was not as nice as this one! :>)