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 (20)
Faemike55
Wonderful and delightful capture, Meis
photosynthesis
What a colorful & beautiful little bird - fantastic shot...
blondeblurr
Kingfishers are always so colourful, a nice 'catch' Jacominchen, that was very lucky... we have also got them here, where I live ! just check out the long beak, that is for catching fish, when swooping or diving into the waters... BB
beachsidelegs Online Now!
What a fantastic picture and a stunning bird so full of colour love it :)
anahata.c
Really, it almost looks like a print: The way the bird is surrounded by those beautiful branches---it looks like a delicate print. The contrast of the branches with the bird is wonderful. And the branches---closeup---are really strange, new objects. With furry "caps". Wonderful zoom-photo, Jacomina. Heavy camera zoom is always hard to work with, but you got a print here, with beautiful contrasts and bright hues. I hope all your fans zoom this, themselves: It has so much life, full size.
And don't worry about missing images, or not commenting all the time: Everyone knows you're struggling with pain and discomfort. As far as my writing goes, I understand that my writing's hard to read even for people who read a lot. So I fully understand your not reading it...(I hope you're ok with my comments...)
(Btw: if you want to see some of my music-handwriting, I posted a silly upload with music handwriting. It's from years ago: I drew cartoons all over music scores. If you just glance at it, you'll see that the bottom score is Bach's beautiful chorale prelude, O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß, which I'm sure Karel knows. Don't be offended by the cartoons, lol: They're just me "messing around," years back.) (I copied many of the organ chorale preludes, by hand, because it gets you to hear every note. I played them all on a synthesizer. Here's the link, if you want to see it, and you don't have to comment, truly! Just if you want to glance at it: https://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/oh-youll-draw-anywhere-/2727302/?p)
bugsnouveau
Very beautiful photo
claude19
splendid moving capture Mies ! what a little beauty !!! excellent shot !!!
voske
Mooie foto van een prachtig ijsvogeltje.
Juliette.Gribnau
altijd een bijzondere ervaring !!
durleybeachbum
Fantastic photo of this excellent spot! Lucky woman and clever to get it!
farmerC
Het is al een zeldzaamheid als je er een ziet,en dan zo Mooi in beeld.
Schitterende opname.
g1tip
Great capture ! ! !
Glendaw
Super amazing macro shot Mies.
Its long beak and beautiful colors are very eye catching.
The white background makes this little chickie stand out really, really well.
Thanks for sharing.
XxOo
Meisiekind
Oh Jacomina - what a stellar sighting and well done for catching this little beauty. They are also found in South Africa in the wetter parts of the country.
helanker
What a fabulous find and capture, Jacomina. Superbly done :)
flavia49
wonderful
X-PaX
Lucky you that you can make a photo of him Jacomina.
I also have seen one recently during a walk with the dog. Unfortunately i have not had my camera with me
SunriseGirl
WOW!!!!!
mininessie
precious!
iborg64
superb shot usually all i see is the blue flash and thats it gone