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 (23)
Glendaw
Awesome photo of these unique and empty sculptures Mies.
You are too funny, but guessing Karel knows you are up to something, especially with a camera in hand.
Xx Oo
Faemike55
Great and wonderful capture - as if you could fool Karel
photosynthesis
Wonderful composition of these intriguing masks...
claude19
superb capture !!!
Cyve
Amazing ... Fantastic shot also!
SunriseGirl
Ah Mies, you make me chuckle. I often have the exact same problem although I do not even try to apply tricks and pretend I am innocent. I already know I would not get away with that. Fortunately my husband is extremely patient with me. Sometimes he teases me of being like the dag in the movie "Up" . No matter what the dog is doing it can always be distracted by a squirrel. I am like that when I see something I want to photograph. I imagine Karel is also really patient and knows what is up, but also pretends you are innocent. :)
jmb007
jolie
giulband
Very very fine picture, well taken and composed !!
Juliette.Gribnau
gaaf zeg; ik vind ze ook heel boeiend, en je hebt ze mooi in beeld gebracht
durleybeachbum
They have so much expression even though they are so deceptively simple.
I'm sure Karel always enjoys the results of whatever you've been up to!
Freethinker56
Beautiful thing always catch my eye when I'm out walking ..but they just have to wait for me I say ...thanks for sharing these lovely sculptures.
kgb224
Great find and capture. God bless.
X-PaX
Very nice capture Jacomina.
beachsidelegs
Wonderful picture I love sculptures like that :)
farmerC
Schitterend werk.
npauling
Well worth falling behind to get this great shot. They do look empty. Well spotted. ☺
Richardphotos
very beautiful sculptures and capture
jocko500
cool faces
blondeblurr
and all in the name of ART - LOL - as soon as laid eyes on these masks, I was reminded of the Greek Comedy & Tragedy - the happy and sad masks...
& 
- of course I would have loved to take my paints out and added some colour (I have always been known to be the naughty little girl, when I grew up), to say the least, they should have put some lipstick on, don't you think so too GIRLS ? I am a woman and love my war paints 
very cool looking sculptures, Jacominchen - I like the crop... BB
netot
Beautiful photo, and the angle of the shot is excellent. Lol, you are not alone in this, Ana Luisa (My wife) always scolds me because when I have my camera in hand I walk very slowly and very often she must wait for me.
auntietk
I would have stopped for half an hour and taken several shots and just sat and stared! Fortunately for me, I don't have to trick Bill. He's probably off somewhere taking pictures and thinks I'm waiting for him! LOL!
mininessie
Fantastic capture!
anahata.c
great comments...Katherine has the same experience, Brigitte would love to paint these faces (I would too, when I was a kid), and Tara doesn't have to worry about lagging behind Bill, because Bill's photographing everything himself! This is stunning for the clarity of the mask/sculptures, and the light on them. You have wonderful light and shadow. ANd you caught the geometric feeling of their surroundings---with that ledge in front, the diagonal structure on the left side, and the forms behind the two masks. A wonderful shot of artwork, and a wonderful shot, period.