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 (19)
icerian
Great street scenery. Well seen.
Juliette.Gribnau
erg leuk; mooie compositie
jmb007
amusant!
Hendesse
A fantastic image with a lot of facial expressions. I wonder why they wear scarves with Rasta colors. :o)
giulband
Very good capture with a bit of humor !!
netot
Great! What a cool bunch! At first glance I was deceived by an optical illusion, I thought I saw a clown with blue and gray hair and a red nose, but then I discovered that there were two people, a lady with a red headband and another with a blue wig. definitely, I can not trust my eyes.LOL
adrie
Mooie and also beautiful picture Mies.
durleybeachbum
Such a superb candid! They look so very miserable they must be having a wonderful day out!
jayfar
Wonderful expressions Jacomina and very well captured.
claude19
outstanding capture of strange dressed people !!! excellent idea !!!
helanker
Great shot, Jacomina and I remember the bottles well. The link works fine :-)
Kaartijer
Awesome street shot!
auntietk
Oh yes, I DO like it! And you're right ... the people and the bottles are all different, but the same, which is a wonderful characteristic, don't you think? Thank you for this comparison, and for your fun and insightful photograph! :) Another interesting note ... I posted a picture a day or two ago and you commented on a reflected stairway, and I think you were the only one who noticed it. And what a coincidence! I happen to have a photograph of that very staircase, and I thought I should put it up as a dedication to you, since you mentioned it. :) I'll do it! :)
flavia49
very nice
Faemike55
Very cool capture and observation, Mies!
farmerC
Schitterende opname.
Mark-David-Rogers
Such an interesting shot and post work.
anahata.c
Well I have to stop for today, and what better place than a dedi to the person who brought you to my gallery. I'm so very slow at comments, and I'm always leaving people behind. And yours is one of those galleries I just love and have always wanted to comment in, much more; but I am so slow and miss so many days here, I always leave major artists behind enough. I not only know of you through your work, but through your connections to people I love (like Helle, Lucinda, Tara, etc). So I'm glad to come here again. And I hope to come here more. But for now, my thanks for your wonderful comment, and a big hooray for the beautiful quality of your upload. On this---I zoom everything, and this image really opens-up in zoom. This is a beautiful gathering of people, with carnival-like decorations (you said it was for a carnival), and also just everyday clothing. It's the mix that makes this so beautiful. You caught it almost as a portrait, with that woman in the red dotted dress (and the white frills) as a kind of "break" in the action, a major accent. It's a really fine "design" of people; and you end it---on the left---with someone with a dark coat and bright white boots, a fine "end" for the line; while the other side ends with someone with blue hair/wig, and a white top. Very nice "book-ends," so to speak. Well cropped. It's a big slice of life and it's delightful and intriguing. And perfect for the slices of life that Tara makes all the time. Happy birthday tara, once more! (I'll be doing a dedi for her soon---I'm late with most dedis, that's nothing unusual.) And a very fitting image for her birthday, Mies.
danapommet
A wonderful photo and so many have the same scarf - the home colors I assume!