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 (16)
Faemike55
Zeer mooi beeld!
Vrolijk kerstfeest adn een gelukkig nieuwjaar voor u en uw gezin
emmecielle
Splendid composition!
VDH
Een originele en prachtige feestkaart! Ook voor jou en al diegene die je dierbaar zijn wens ik een voorspoedig 2017 en in het bijzonder een goede gezondheid !!
claude19
Awesome creation for Christmas ! what beauties, colors and forms !!! excellent Art !!! Happy days for the end of the year !!!
SunriseGirl
Wat leuk, Jacomina! Happy 2nd Christmas and a wonderful New year too. :)
kgb224
Merry Christmas and a Happy new year to you and your husband. God bless.
X-PaX
I like your fractal firework very much Jacomina.
Merry Christmas and a Happy new year to you and your husband too.
farmerC
Verbazend Prachtig werk Mies.
en de Beste wensen voor 2017 voor jullie beide.
jmb007
bonnes fetes
iborg64
A beautiful creation
helanker
What a wonderful creation. You are a master :) And a Merry Christmas to you too... belated....And a Very Happy New Year without pains at all, are my wishes for you, dear friend. :-)
Richardphotos
so totally unique and elegant fractal. happy new year for both of you and family
flavia49
very beautiful Happy Holidays to you too!
Glendaw
Wow what a joyous and delightful image you have made for this beautiful card Mies.
The delicate Christmas baubles look amazing floating and falling down from the heavenly skies.
Their colors, lighting and patterns are gorgeous and I am wishing one will drop down in my yard as a reminder of precious You are Mies.
This looks like a wonderful fireworks as well. The sparkling lights are a reminder of the get up and go you have under all the stress of pains you endure each and every day.
No matter what--- I see just how giving and thoughtful you have been in each and every upload , thanks for your generosity Mies.
Hopefully you and Karel had a wonderful Christmas and here is wishing you a joyful, healthy and prosperous New Year.
anahata.c
This is a gigantic fractal Christmas tree! You have all these fractal "sunbursts" here. And big fanfares of light on either side (those orange light beams on the left and right of the "tree"). But then, the bottom of the image looks like a huge crowd, cheering the tree. The crowd is made of many lights, itself. And you have star clusters in the background, like distant galaxies. Wonderful textures too. ALmost stone textures...A beautiful Christmas card, and thank you for all the beauty this season. It has been a parade of Christmas images, and it's been beautiful, Jacomina.
ia-du-lin
beautiful Christmas fractal