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)
jayfar
Fabulous work Jacomima, hope your eyes soon recover.
mininessie
take care!
kepp
stunning image colours are superb
eekdog
Unique and gorgeous design.
prutzworks
cool apo werk
MagikUnicorn
VDH
WOW !! Mies , wat een prachtige fractal, je ziet er wel degelijk een vogel in, de kleurkeuze is bijzonder origineel en mooi !!
rhol_figament
Could also be a new strange species of deep sea creature, flashing it's colors in the depths. Cool image...
RodS
He's definitely in the pink! Very cool Apo!
netot
Lovely pink owl! I see him clearly, Jacomina, is a beautiful APO!
Richardphotos
very elegant owl flame. Apo and MB3D are so much fun
rachris480907
Fantastic title for this, and a beautiful creation! Excellent work, Mies!
afsinatre
Impressive!
farmerC
Deze is een van je Beste Mies.
vorm en kleur spreken me erg aan.
ia-du-lin
Very nice creation. Beautiful fractal work!
anahata.c
I'm only back for one comment per gallery, this morning, but I've seen all your other uploads, and will comment more later in the month. (That one with the "balls" in the air is gorgeous---it even has mythic faces) (and you posted a beautiful eagle, etc). I picked this because it's so beautiful: It's like a huge dance by a gigantic peacock. I also see the owl eyes and face. And it's beautiful how these pinks and chrome-like highlights unfold against a pure black background. It's like an underwater creature, putting on a gorgeous show for all the creatures in the deep, deep sea. It has great grace, and great mass. Beautiful work, Jacomina, no one does fractals the way you do. (And thank you for your comments, they were wonderful and insightful...I'm always glad when my crazy visual pieces can give you inspiration! I know it's not easy for you to comment, esp in a foreign language; and I appreciate it greatly.)
g1tip
WOW !!! Absolutely beautiful !!!
Glendaw
What a pretty pink owl.
Like how he is perched on a tree branch watching all the world around him.
Very sorry to hear about your eyes Mies.
Hopefully they have recovered by the time you see this.
I am doing deep heat therapy to my back but its only good for a couple of hours, then the pain is back to full strength.
Walking is still unbearable, I am in tears after a block.
Pushing through the pain isn't helping me go any further.
I think I'm going to try cannibis oil if the Dr. agrees.
Have a appointment at the end of the month.