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 (18)
g1tip
Mother Nature can be cruel, at times. But, in my part of the world, we have had an unusually warm Winter and a very pleasant Spring (so far).
Your fractal is very colorful and pretty ! ! ! Very nice work ! ! !
durleybeachbum
Beautiful!
So sorry about the frost, Mies.
jayfar
We are due for a very cold blast next week Jacomina and I fear the same may happen here !!
Love your apo image.
claude19
great creativity ! splendid realization !!!
Faemike55
Great work
SunriseGirl
Wat Jammer!!!!! I am so sorry you lost so much of your garden to frost...and the apples in the region as well. I have been busy with tourist activities with my cousin from Switzerland who was here to visit. So I have not even had time to look at my garden. I must go out and check if the cherry blossums survived among other things. I hope I do not have to make an apo garden since I have never even tried it. But, I can always enjoy your lovely garden masterpiece. :)
VDH
Een wel heel kleurrijke tuin Mies, deze heeft duidelijk geen last van de vorst en de droogte !
jmb007
ca pousse bien, dis !!
Badsue
Deine Fantasie hat hier mal wieder etwas sehr Schönes geschaffen, liebe Mies. Wir hatten in dieser Nacht "nur" -6°C, und alle meine Tulpen und auch die Pfingstrosen im Garten ließen die Köpfe hängen. Hat sich aber zum Glück alles erholt. Tut mir so leid, von deinem Garten zu hören, ich hoffe, deine Pflanzen haben es letztendlich auch überlebt!
ia-du-lin
very nice fractal image
kgb224
Outstanding work. God bless.
giulband
Simply marvelous !!!!!!
mininessie
sorry to hear...the weather is becoming very mad! hugs and very nice work!
aksirp
so wonderful creative work Mies! And so sad frosty times for all Farmers this spring ...
anahata.c
Yes, "patio" is the right word. Lol at your comment: "So I made an unfrozen fractal garden..." I'm sorry you had a deep freeze: It can freeze so much life. I understand how frustrating that can be. Your apo garden is filled with jewels, and beads and glass, and many small creatures. It's also filled with crystals. And luminous hues---your greens are like light filtered through the deep sea. And you have tiny speckles---little shells or spheres of light. It's like a photograph of the sea-floor, where your camera's "flash" illumines a hidden world. It's quite beautiful, and you make a quiet symphony of the light as it moves across the ocean floor. (Or maybe it's like a tide pool.) Beautiful, as always.
Glendaw
What a delightful APO garden Mies.
Oh it is sad to hear that frost hit hard in your area.
Hope it is not to late to re crop and get something back.
There is snow headed in our direction -- May first-- hard to imagine for this time of year.
XxOo
iborg64
A really beautiful creation with superb colours
chrisann
Superb work!