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 (26)
giulband
Superb creation !!!
blankfrancine
Beautifully rendered fractal composition.Sublime lighting.
durleybeachbum
I like the fish net effect, it reminds me of the nets round glass fishing floats.
beachsidelegs
Wonderful image my friend love the beautiful colours :)
Faemike55
I'm buoyed by your descriptions and excellent work
Freethinker56
Marvelous beautiful
SunriseGirl
I like this with its' delicate and beautiful designs.
ArtistKimberly
Fantastic Work,
claude19
talentuous realization !!! superb 3D !!!
kgb224
Outstanding work Mies. God bless.
helanker
Looks fantastic, Jacomina. Love the net alot. It gives a lovely effect.
jmb007
jolie
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Een originele en kleurrijke fractal !!
MrsRatbag
This is wonderfully complex, and has echoes of some biological organism...stunning work!
npauling
A great title for this lovely fractal, and everyone needs a lifebouy sometimes. ☺
farmerC
Schitterend werk.
sandra46
VERY BEAUTIFUL
flavia49
fine work
Bampster
Excellent work with Apo!!!!!
blondeblurr
This lifebuoy may have gone adrift, but it appears to me, as if he got caught in the net again... and maybe even met a new friend on his travels ! Gorgeous colours and amazing design, Jacominchen, topnotch work !
X-PaX
Beautiful work Jacomina.
ia-du-lin
beautiful creation
jocko500
lovely
mininessie
big hugs!
Glendaw
I see some pretty flowers snagged up in a fish net.
Lifebuoy's come in many forms indeed.
An unexpected phone call, a compliment, and a smile from my hubby are a few of my favorites.
Another is the friendship we have Mies, on and off Rendo..
You have made my day on several occasions and didn't even know it ----- Now that's a Lifebuoy !
XxOo
anahata.c
a beautiful object, with gentle greens and intense blues, and shaped like a set of organic cells (like cells dividing, if you've ever seen pictures of that in a science film). Beautiful white accents, and I love the way the lines rush around this object, and then intersect inside it. And yes, the object is surrounded by a net, it has been saved. And the net seems to float...but maybe it's floating because it's just happy to have found its 'catch'. Or maybe the two of them are floating somewhere they want to go. You have light around the net---especially on top---and that feels like promise. It's a very sea-like image, very "marine-like" in its hues and shapes and reflections. The upper part of the net seems like shadows cast on a sea wall. A gentle underwater image, with touches of purple to make it shine. Another beautiful fractal from you.