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 (15)
claude19
sweet and adorable little girl ! What an excellent capture !!!
durleybeachbum
A wonderful photo, Mies! She is a delight!
SunriseGirl
Very cute child.
Lenord
Great capture, those shoes are cool alright and the mid decision expression, like the hat too....makes me think of a very young Zsuzsanna (ZZ) Ward, who frequently wears hats like that( felt though not straw) Peace
Juliette.Gribnau
lief !
farmerC
Prachtig werk. goed gezien.
auntietk
Oh yes, there's one who was born to shop! LOL! This is not me. I am the photographer, not the shopper. :P Wonderful capture!
jayfar
She is a little beauty and lovely to see her pondering on whether she can afford something or not.
Faemike55
Such a delightful capture Mies. everything about her screams cute and adorable
Faemike55
She's going to be a heart-breaker when she grows up.....
magnus073
Mies, this is a wonderful photo of this adorable little girl shopping.
netot
Lovely capture, Mies! I think she is considering buying the bracelet matching with her toy!
blinkings
In Aust, if the photographer is a girl, no problems. If the photographer happens to be male.......he are likely to be accused of being a paedophile.
Mark-David-Rogers
An excellent capture of this little lady, so natural too. So true what blinkings says in his comments, if a guy was out there taking this shot he would probably have the whole population of the mothers and fathers try and chase him down for doing so such is the social climate around the world regarding the photography of children. In reality probably many guys would not even risk such a shot and being female in this case has afforded you a shot that would have otherwise been lost had you been male and that would have been such a shame. I live in a coastal village in Devon and I would never go up to the seafront during the summer season with a camera in my hands because people can presume so much.. especially with kids on the beach etc... not worth the risks. It is a subject that is seldom raised but is a big issue for male photographers and the patchy laws we have these days in the uk more specifically.. I presume in other countries they might be different... but it's still a symptom of the modern age we live.
flavia49
fantastic picture
danapommet
She is very cute and her hair and full dress make this a lovely photo.